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Salomon Bertram and his son Robert were born in Krakow, Poland and were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen on October 17, 1944 where they remained until the liberation during the death march in 1945.

Robert’s son Michael Bar-Am came with his family from Israel to Sachsenhausen for the 80th anniversary of the liberation, where Kelsey had a chance to meet him and talk to him about his family’s story.

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.