TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Ulla Lachauer
AU  - Agata Kern
T1  - The Four Lehndorff Daughters
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/625fd36bf34c61.16135712
DA  - 2025/07/17
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - "I lost my home," Vera von Lehndorff once said, "but lost childhood is a better description." When her father was executed on September 4, 1944, she was five years old. Her sister Eleonore, "Nona," was six and a half, and Gabriele was two. Catharina was only 19 days old; she was born in the Torgau prison hospital. The Nazis had taken the girls and their mother Gottliebe into custody, a practice known in German as "Sippenhaft” or “kin liability". It was a traumatic time and was by no means over when the war ended in 1945.
KW  - Poland
KW  - Masuria
KW  - Germany
KW  - Masuria
KW  - Ostpreußen
KW  - Lehndorff, Vera von
KW  - Haeften, Nona (Eleonore)
KW  - Kappelhoff-Wulff, Catharina
KW  - Plotho, Gabriele
KW  - Lehndorff, Gottliebe
KW  - Lehndorff, Heinrich von
KW  - Dönhoff, Marion Hedda Ilse
KW  - Biography (literary genre)
KW  - Migration (human)
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Expulsion
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Sippenhaft (nazism)
KW  - Post-war period (Germany)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History of eastern europe
KW  - Migration history
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - German
KW  - English
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25355/361
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/625fd36bf34c61.16135712
ER  -