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Article: Concentration camp survivor visits
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- May 19, 2006
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Katherine Hoeger Flotz and her husband, George, were on campus May 5 to speak with members of the junior class.
They were invited by Christine Nienhaus, a Crown Point resident who teaches theology at Bishop Noll.
Katherine, of Crown Point, escaped from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. As the war drew to conclusion, ethnic Germans from Yugoslavia, who feared the impending Russian invasion, abandoned almost everything they owned including their land and homes.
Those who remained under Marshall Josef Tito's communist regime suffered retaliation for the actions of Nazi Germany. The mothers and children and the ...