Every year, men and women from all over the world – former wards of the DP International Children’s Centre – come to Markt Indersdorf. They want to see the place where they stayed after the liberation and took their first steps towards a new life.
They look forward to meeting one other after many years. The former bedrooms are now classrooms at the Vincent à Paulo secondary school where they talk about their childhood, their experiences during the war, the Holocaust and their later lives.
The Heimatverein Indersdorf association has been organising meetings of former pupils at the Indersdorf monastery since 2008. In 2011, Greta Fischer, head of the UNRRA team at the International Children’s Centre Indersdorf, became the patron of a special education centre in Dachau.
1. Former wards of UNRRA, private archive of Ulrich Fritz
2. Meeting at the Greta Fischer School in Dachau, private archive of Anna Andlauer
3. Visit to Indersdorf, private archive of Dietrich Mittler
Jewish survivor Steve Israeler (formerly Sacher Israeler) points at his friend Morris Stein (formerly Moshe Sztajnkeler). Both boys were in the KZ Flossenbürg camp and survived the death march together.
4. Miriam (Marjanna) Pass, private archive of Anna Andlauer
Miriam Pass, whose mother was a forced labourer from Estonia, returned to Indersdorf in 2019.
5. Miriam (Marjanna) Pass as a child, US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
6. Nahum Bogner, survivor and writer, Heimatverein Indersdorf archive
Today, Nahum Bogner is a well-known writer in Israel. Pictured here during a visit to Markt Indersdorf in 2016.