Klaus Reichmuth (24 May 1924 in Stettin – 16 August 2021 in Hamburg) was arrested 13 January 1942 when he was 17 years old in Stettin and taken to gestapo headquarters in Berlin. He was transferred to Sachsenhausen on 29 March 1942 where he was imprisoned for 6 months. He actually turned 18 in the concentration camp.
A video of Klaus, recorded in 2021, can be seen here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkohdvY0meQ
Descendants Stuff podcast is produced by Jakob Feisthauer, Kelsey Snook and Nicole Wines – three descendants of Sachsenhausen prisoners and co-creators of the Sachsenhausen Stuff project.
The Descendants Stuff team would like to extend a special thank you to the team at Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum especially Dr. Astrid Ley, and the members of the educational department’s project “What Voice Do We Have?”, as well as the descendant’s collective Voices of the Next Generation.
Our theme music, “Heil, Sachsenhausen!” was written and performed by former Sachsenhausen prisoner Aleksander Kulisiewicz. Thanks to the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum and the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection for granting permission for its use.
If you are a Sachsenhausen descendant who would like to share your story, please contact us.