Nicole Wines is the great-granddaughter of Max Düring, who was imprisoned during the November Pogroms in 1938. He was held in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for five weeks. Shortly after his release, he passed away. Following Max’s death, his remaining family was deported to Riga. Nicole’s grandmother Eleonore survived the Riga Ghetto, but her mother, her brother, and her cousin were killed during the mass shootings of Aktion Dünamünde.
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.