DS014 Dr. Axel Drecoll

Dr. Axel Drecoll is the Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation. In this interview, Julie Somers speaks with him about the conditions in the Camp, the hierarchy among prisoners and about people who visit the memorial today.

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.