Ilka Knüppel
Book is Published!!!
It's official! The Story of Tante Ruth is published!! If you'd like your own copy of this book, here is the link: ...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 227 min
Foreword for the book is here!
Thank you so much to Dr. Susanne Knittel of Utrecht University for graciously agreeing to write the foreword for my book. Can't thank...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 83 min
Neither Holocaust nor Genocide - the unfortunate conundrum of victims of Aktion T4
“ What began as the first industrial mass murder of the Nazis in the six killing centers in psychiatric clinics and nursing homes -...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 51 min
Memorial in Jewelry
The incredible artist Mareen Alburg Duncker created this beautiful personalized memorial for Ruth: This jewelry piece in the project was...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 51 min
Watch Ruth's Stolperstein Installation - YouTube
A friend forwarded this to me; I had no idea that the recording of the installation was available! If you're interested in seeing what...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 24 min
Shining the Light - Personal - Ruth's Stolperstein
On June 8, 2022, after years of research and effort, and delays caused by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, Will and I again traveled to...
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Ilka Knüppel
Sep 11 min
Shining the Light - Local Memorial - USA
In 2019, the church I attend, St. Joseph Catholic Church in Cockeysville , Baltimore County, Maryland, offered a chance to have a...
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Ilka Knüppel
Aug 292 min
Shining the Light - Regional Memorial - Gedenkstätte Bernburg
Bernburg Hospital has done an excellent job creating a memorial to the victims of the Aktion T4 for the victims who died at the...
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Ilka Knüppel
Aug 291 min
Shining the Light - Regional Memorial - Neinstedt Hospital
In 2022, Neinstedt Hospital constructed and dedicated a memorial for the 1,019 victims of Aktion T4 who had lived at their hospital. ...
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Ilka Knüppel
Aug 184 min
New Paper Published on Archaeology and Nazi Era Artifacts
https://science.apa.at/power-search/12517595331383773441 English translation of the paper: Nazi culture of remembrance: Archaeological...
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Ilka Knüppel
Aug 112 min
Shining the Light - National Memorial - Berlin, Germany
In 2014 in Berlin, Germany, a national memorial to Aktion T4 victims, designed by the architects Ursula Wilms and Heinz W. Hallman, along...
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Ilka Knüppel
Aug 53 min
The incredible Archaeology of Aktion T4
One of the many reasons I love archaeology is that it can help reveal the actual truth of what transpired in history. And archaeology...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jul 214 min
The Cessation of Aktion T4
On August 24, 1941, Hitler quietly ordered Brandt to “end” Aktion T4. It came 146 days too late for Ruth. There is much speculation about...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jul 111 min
Happy Birthday, Ruth!
Happy 104th Birthday, dear Tante Ruth! Stay tuned as I am working hard on making yet further revisions to Ruth's book. My goal is to have...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jun 51 min
A Rose for Ruth - Children's Day in Germany
My friend whom I met during Ruth's Stolperstein installation had placed a rose on Ruth's stone on June 1, 2024. This was in memory of...
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Ilka Knüppel
Apr 131 min
Presentation on Finding Ruth at Towson University
On April 11, 2024, I had the honor of presenting Tante Ruth’s story to Dr. Hana Bor ‘s Holocaust Class at my Alma Mater, Baltimore Hebrew...
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Ilka Knüppel
Apr 31 min
Gedenkstätte Bernburg Publishes Story on Ruth
On the 83rd anniversary of Ruth's murder in the gas chamber of the Bernburg Euthanasia Center, the Bernburg Memorial, Gedenkstätte...
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Ilka Knüppel
Mar 68 min
Ruth's Falsified Death
“Nothing was accurate: neither the place of death, nor the date of death nor the manner of death.” One of the ladies employed as a...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 295 min
The Ashes of the Dead
75 women were gassed to death at the Bernburg Killing Center on March 31, 1941. The total number of people with disabilities murdered at...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 2710 min
Forgotten Victims of National Socialism: the names of 66 women with disabilities killed at Bernburg on March 31, 1941.
March 31, 1941, dawned snowy, unusual for an early spring day in central Germany. The staff would have woken early, focused on a busy day...
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