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A Journey of Remembrance in the Footsteps of Johann Domeneghini
In early July, former Auschwitz prisoner Denise Karagiorga made a pilgrimage in the footsteps of her brother, Johann, who was deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis and died at the age of 16 in 1945.
Staff members from the Museum's Bureau for Information on Former Prisoners and her Polish friends accompanied her.
Thanks to the help of the Bureau for Information on Former Prisoners, Denise Karagiorga finally learned about her brother's tragic fate, 60 years later.
The high point of their special journey was a visit to the Victims of Fascism Cemetery in Kolce, Poland, where they added a granite plaque dedicated to Johann to the monument to prisoners who died there. Denise and the others placed flowers at the memorial, lighted candles, and said a brief prayer for the intention of the victims. Then they went on to visit the "secret underground city of Osówka," part of the German-built Riese complex in what are now the the Sowie mountains in southwestern Poland.
The next day, they visited the palace in Książe (known in German as Fürstenstein), planned as Hitler's personal headquarters in the Riese project. They also toured the site of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Rogoźnica.
