Dingenthal Family

Carla and Fathieh investigated the history of the Dingenthal family.

Until their break-up in 1928, Malka Dingenthal has lived with her husband Adolf and daughter Eva Chava in a shared flat in Berlin. While Adolf was deported in 1938, Malka and Eva Chava were protected from deportation through their Turkish citizenship. However, this changed in 1943 and Malka was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Eva Chava managed to escape to England in time. Through a prisoner swap, Malka was released from the concentration camp in February 1945 and made her way first to Istanbul and from there to Palestine, where she reunited with her daughter. The research team quotes Malka Dingenthal from an interview conducted by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel in 1964.

Carla and Fathieh reflect on their research process, tell about - partly ambivalent - feelings and thoughts they have had throughout the process and state their wishes for the future.