BIOGRAPHY ADOLPHE ARNOLD CHAPTER 7 (1944-1945): HORRORS OF MAUTHAUSEN
That summer of 1944, Adolphe was put on a regular transport to the most dreaded camp in Austria: Mauthausen. The prisoner transports were more like
That summer of 1944, Adolphe was put on a regular transport to the most dreaded camp in Austria: Mauthausen. The prisoner transports were more like
Emma was baptized as a Witness of Jehovah in 1938. That year, German forces invaded the Sudetenland, and Adolphe was drafted into the French army
In 1932, the owner of the Wesserling factory unexpectedly put up the business for sale. The resulting staff cuts created an uncertain future, even for
The year was 1923. Adolphe faced two challenges. First, Emma lived on a mountain farm at Bergenbach, which belonged to a neighbouring village. The young
Alsace was caught once again between France and Germany with the start of World War I. In German-controlled region, the army drafted all young adult
The Arnold family lived at the end of the Thur valley in the Vosges Mountains. In 1897 when Adolphe was born, his father, Martin, was
Adolphe Arnold was born in Krüth, Alsace, on August 22, 1897, and was raised in a humble Alsatian home and came of age during the
In Buchenwald in 1995, Max Liebster found the very woodpile which he had sat behind…It is still there… As Max Liebster described it in his memoirs:
May 9, 2002 Max Liebster, concentration camp survivor, showing the prisoner number tattooed on his left arm when he was in Auschwitz.