Lerner, Albert

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Jun 23, 2015
Nothing is known about Lerner's childhood and youth. All that is certain is that he was born in Szczakowa on August 23, 1897. This small town, located in the Krakow district, belonged to Western Galicia, an area in what is now Poland that was under Austrian rule until 1918. How, when and why Albert Lerner came to Berlin, whether alone or with his family, where he lived before 1925 - there is no answer to all these questions so far.

Gatzke, Siegfried

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Siegfried Gatzke was born on August 12, 1930, the son of Walter Gatzke and his wife Luise Anna née Thadewald. He suffered from hydrocephalus, monoplegia brachialis dextra, both probably related to spina bifida. In 1934 his parents took him to the infirmary of the Oberlinhaus Nowawes (today Babelsberg), from there he came to the Wittenauer Heilstätten in November 1935. In 1938 he was admitted to the Brandenburg an der Havel state nursing home. The Brandenburg sanatorium was set up as an ostensible hospital, but in reality served as a mass killing facility.