Publication of the graphic novel: Persmanhof 25 April 1945 – foreword by Lisa Rettl, by Evelyn Steinthaler and Verena Loisel

 
in German:
Publikation der Graphic Novel: Persmanhof 25. April 1945 - Vorwort Lisa Rettl von Evelyn Steinthaler und Verena Loisel

Project

 

Description

Only a few days before the liberation by the Allies, on 25 April 1945, one of the last Nazi crimes against the Carinthian-Slovenian civilian population occurred in Carinthia at the Persmanhof after a skirmish between the Nazi police and the partisans camped there: Members of the SS and police regiment 13 murdered the members of the Sadovnik family living at the court: eleven people, including seven children. Only three children survived, like the then 10-year-old Ana, who is the focus of the graphic novel. The story tells of the day of the crime, but also of the difficulty of surviving and continuing to live in this almost completely destroyed place, which at the end of the 1940s began to develop again into a place of residence and in the 1980s finally into a place of public remembrance.

in German:
Nur wenige Tage vor der Befreiung durch die Alliierten, am 25.04.1945, kam es in Kärnten am Persmanhof nach einem Gefecht zwischen nationalsozialistischer Polizei und den hier lagernden PartisannInnen zu einem der letzten NS-Verbrechen an der kärntner-slowenischen Zivilbevölkerung: Angehörige der SS- und des Polizeiregiments 13 ermordeten die am Hof befindlichen Mitglieder der hier ansässigen Familie Sadovnik: elf Personen, darunter sieben Kinder. Nur drei Kinder überlebten, wie die damals 10-jährige Ana, die im Mittelpunkt der Graphic Novel steht. Die Geschichte erzählt vom Tag des Verbrechens, aber auch vom schwierigen Überleben und Weiterleben an diesem fast vollständig zerstörten Ort, der sich Ende der 1940er Jahre wieder zu einem Wohnort und in den 1980er Jahren schließlich zu einem Ort der öffentlichen Erinnerung zu entwickeln begann.

Applicant

bahoe books

in German:
bahoe books

Website

Location

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Approved

19 Nov 2018

Category

book

Type

Commemoration / remembrance

Funding

National Fund budget

Please note

The project contents and descriptions are based primarily on the submissions of the project applicants. These submissions are edited for publication and translated into English. Although it is subjected to rigorous checks, the National Fund does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided.

Publications / Media

 

Title

Persmanhof

Subtitle

25. April 1945

Authors / Editors

Steinthaler, Evelyn; Loisel, Verena

Publisher

bahoe books

Location

Wien

Year of Publication

2018

Edition

1. Auflage

ISBN

9783903022850

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