Document Type:
Collective work
Author/editor:
edited by Michael Bünker and Dietlind Pichler ; commissioned by the Protestant Church A. and H.C. in Austria and the Commission of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE)
 
Standard: Bünker, Michael [Michael Bünker][Michael Buenker] Baral, Sabina [Sabina Baral]
Title:
Protestant pastors in Mauthausen concentration camp

Standard:

Corporate Name:
Gemeinschaft der Evangelischen Kirchen in Europa (GEKE) ; Lutherische Kirche in Österreich

Standard: Gemeinschaft der Evangelischen Kirchen in Europa [Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe][GEKE]

Date of Publication:
2022
Place of Publication:
Vienna

Standard: Wien [Vienna]

Publisher/Printer name:
EPV

Standard: Evangelischer Presseverband in Österreich [EPV]

ISBN/ISSN:
9783850733304
Pages:
179 p.
Number of illustrations:
illustrazioni
Format :
24 cm
Subjects:
German concentration camps - Mauthausen - Second world war (1939-1945) - Protestant pastors
Lombardini, Jacopo (1892-1945) - Biography

Table of contents:

 Sabina Baral, "Lombardini Jacopo", translated into English (from the German) by Mario Fischer, p. 108-111

Summary/Notes:

Versione tedesca: Evangelische Pfarrer im KZ Mauthausen, Wien 2022.

“Protestant pastors in the Mauthausen concentration camp” is the subject of a new book published by the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe and the Lutheran Church in Austria. The book is an initiative of the former CPCE General Secretary and Bishop Michael Bünker, who published it together with historian Dietlind Pichler. It presents the life stories of 37 men from several European countries who were imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and some of whom were also murdered there. In the account, Mauthausen becomes a European memorial site of National Socialist terror and at the same time a point of reference for Protestant churches when they describe their relationship to National Socialism. 190,000 people were imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp and its numerous subcamps. 90,000 of them died. These enormous numbers make us aware of the extent of the National Socialist reign of terror. The criminal contempt for humanity also included taking away people’s identities and turning them into anonymous numbers. An important step in commemoration is therefore to give the victims of the crimes, the murdered as well as the survivors, their names and (wherever possible) their faces again and to recall their life fates. Many of the Protestant pastors portrayed in this book have a firm place in the collective memory of their country and their church. Beyond the national (inner-church) culture of remembrance, however, they are largely unknown. The compilation of this volume takes the persons out of their national context and places them in the unifying context of European Protestantism. (Fonte: sito web dell'editore)