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A visit to the former Reichenbach-Sportschule concentration camp   As the 8th of May 2025 was approaching, an idea started forming in my head. I wanted to be at the very place where my father, Josef Lewkowicz, had been liberated 80 years earlier. It was the beginning of a new life for him after more than two years incarcerated in six concentration camps, he had just turned 17. With a photo of my father, aged 17/18, outside the former site of the Reichenbach-Sportschule camp A

Earlier this year, on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, I gave a lecture on the experiences of four Jewish Slovak survivors from the AJR Refugee Voices Archive, one of them my mother. This was the first time I publicly spoke about her history. A few days before the event I received an e-mail from Vivian Hassan- Lampert, saying that her mother Erika Hassan, who had survived the war in my mother's hometown Piestany, would like to get in touch with Dr Gertrud Friedmann, as she recogn