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José Epita Mbomo, the Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis Tereixa Constenla © Archivo familiar (EL PAÍS) José Epita Mbomo’s card as a deported member of the French Resistance, issued by France in 1954. FAMILY ARCHIVE Guinean, Spanish and French, José Epita Mbomo was an airplane mechanic and the first Black man to marry a white woman in Cartagena, if not the whole of Spain. He went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War and used his skills as an electrician to sabotage Wehrmacht networks and facilities. He was later deported to the Neuengamme concentr...

Auschwitz to Geppersdorf: Shining a light on a little-known death march In 1945, Nazi prisoners were marched past Rembert Boese's family home. Years later, after learning about the incident, he investigated the harrowing death march. Today, he wants the victims to be remembered properly. Rembert Boese hopes his research will ensure that those killed on the death march will not be forgotten "In 1994, my aunt told me about a group of prisoners who were marched down our road in late January 1945," recalls Rembert Boese, who now lives in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg. He say...

news Auschwitz to Geppersdorf: Shining a light on a little-known death march dw.com 20/02/2021 Aureliusz M. Pedziwol In 1945, Nazi prisoners were marched past Rembert Boese's family home. Years later, after learning about the incident, he investigated the harrowing death march. Today, he wants the victims to be remembered properly. © Aureliusz M. Pędziwol/DW Rembert Boese hopes his research will ensure that those killed on the death march will not be forgotten "In 1994, my aunt told me about a group of prisoners who were marched down our road in late January 1945," recal...

A new memorial project in Berlin, supported by Germany's culture commission and the French Embassy hopes to pave the way for remembrance culture in the digital age. Thousands of names are currently being projected onto the Embassy's facade, a symbol itself of the post-war Franco-German friendship after so many decades of enmity. Monika Grütters is Germany's Government Commissioner for Culture & Media. She says there has been a shift in what is acceptable to articulate, and we should be wary: "We’re experiencing more and more hatred and incitement, not only on social networks and in the dig...

#everynamecounts – an international effort of remembrance How many of the victims of the Third Reich do we remember by name? The Arolsen Archives have logged information on more than 17 million people who were victims of the Nazi regime. And they want to make sure that every name is remembered. Watch video 03:33