Memorial Kudera Innsbruck

On January 27, 2024, two Zeitpunkte were placed for Marian and Stefan KUDERA.

Marian KUDERA, born on 5-8-1923 in Mysłowice/Myslowitz (Poland), murdered on
July 19, 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp
Stefan KUDERA, born on 8-9-1916 in Žnin/Dietfurt (Poland), murdered on 19-7-1944 in the Dachau concentration camp

Stefan and Marian Kudera had lived in Innsbruck since the autumn of 1941. From October 1941, Stefan continued his studies in pharmacy, obtaining his diploma in July 1943.
His brother Marian, seven years younger, wanted to study medicine, but there is no written evidence of this. He may have worked at the hospital in Innsbruck.
The National Socialists regarded Marian as a 'Volksdeutscher'. On February 21, 1944 he was arrested by the Gestapo. They suspected him of being the leader of a sixty-member Polish resistance group. His brother Stefan would also have belonged to it.
The Gestapo arrested their mother and sister and confronted the family during interrogations. The "aggravated interrogations" were nothing more than systematic torture. The ordeal only ended when Marian confessed.
Stefan Kudera was also subjected to numerous abuses.
Gestapo chief Max Nedwed requested special treatment in Berlin "after the facts of the crime had been established." This meant that the Kudera brothers were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp on April 28, 1944. Both were hanged there on July 19, 1944.

The city of Innsbruck has taken a new path when it comes to commemorations.
On January 27, 2024, International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the new project "Zeitpunkte" was presented.
A hand-made bronze disc with a diameter of approximately eight centimeters and a thickness of three centimeters is mounted at eye level on light poles or posts in the immediate vicinity of the last freely chosen place of residence of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. The person's name is on the round plaque, the "Zeitpunkt".
The inscription is engraved and sealed.
The attached QR code refers to the website www.zeitspitzen.at, where information about the biographies and locations can be found in several languages.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Wouters