Andrea Tonko, the daughter of Julius Czygan visited Sachsenhausen and spoke with Kelsey. Julius was born December 21,1906 in Kiel, Germany. He was a member of the SPD (social democratic party) and was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen on February 22, 1941 as a political prisoner. He was liberated on the death march in 1945 close to Lübeck, Germany, where he died in October 1976.
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.