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“Dear Momma, please help me,” Charlotte Schulz wrote from a cell in Munich’s Stadelheim Prison on May 11, 1940. Six days later, the young woman was executed by the Nazi judicial system. Learn more about the #lostwords project: arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...
October 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
#Poetry #Painting #LostWords

A Lament for Lost Words

To graceful names and lovely woods farewell
To acorn, adder, ash, to beech and bluebell,
Farewell old friends I name you in my sonnet

- Robert McFarland

🎨 Richard Lorenz
October 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Perhaps not as poetic a weir as the weir of the #LostWords Heron poem by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

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Rock still at weir sill. Stone still at weir sill.
Dead still at weir sill. Still still at weir sill.
Until, eelless at weir sill, heron magically…
unstatues.

Heron
by Robert Macfarlane
From the Lost Words books recovering nature words for children
October 2, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Zum Welttag des Briefeschreibens erinnern wir an die über 50 nie zugestellten Abschiedsbriefe von den Hingerichteten der Haftanstalt München-Stadelheim. #lostwords sucht nach ihren Familien, damit die letzten Worte sie endlich erreichen. Zu den Videos: arolsen-archives.org/mitmachen/lo...
September 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
What, no lines today?
Sometimes words just fly away:
We fail to catch them.
Verse lost to half-sleep…
We chose to keep to our bed:
By morn they had fled…
~tamisar💞
#haiku (s) #poetry #writingcommunity #writing #WriteOrLoseIt #LostWords #LostInspirations #LostPoems #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyPoets
August 30, 2026 at 2:03 PM
August 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Jetzt anhören: Im WDR 5-Feature geht es um unsere Zusammenarbeit mit den Staatlichen Archiven Bayerns im Projekt #lostwords. Erfahre, wie der erste Brief an Angehörige übergeben wurde. www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/s...
Abschiedsbriefe aus der NS-Todeszelle
Die NS-Justiz sprach nach fragwürdigen Verfahren auch Todesurteile aus. Einige Abschiedsbriefe der hingerichteten NS-Justizopfer liegen bis heute in Archiven, sie wurden nie zugestellt. Eine Initiativ...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Der Medizinstudent Tim Simon Goldmann hat in den Anatomischen Sammlung Erlangen sterbliche Überreste von Opfern der NS-Justiz gefunden. Jetzt möchte er gemeinsam mit den Arolsen Archives die Familien der Hingerichteten finden. Zum Interview: arolsen-archives.org/news/von-der...
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Von der Hinrichtung auf den Seziertisch | Arolsen Archives
Die NS-Justiz hielt nicht nur viele Abschiedsbriefe Hingerichteter zurück, sie verwehrte auch den Angehörigen die Beerdigung. Stattdessen wurden ihre sterblichen Überreste an die anatomischen Institut...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Victor Douillet and René Blondel, both 24 years old, were executed on October 28, 1943, for “theft of small animals”. Their letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients of the letters. aroa.to/lostwords
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“We owe it to them.” Helena Novotna is a volunteer with #lostwords who searches for families in the Czech Republic to give them farewell letters that were never delivered. Her own great-grandfather, a resistance fighter, was executed by the Nazis in Munich. arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...
The search for relatives | Arolsen Archives
The #lostwords project focuses on searching for relatives and traces of people who suffered grave injustices during the Nazi era as a result of being sentenced to death. Today, volunteers from various...
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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Johannes Fleischmann, 42 years old, was executed on November 28, 1941, for “dangerous habitual criminality”. His letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives & the Arolsen Archives seek to trace the intended recipients of the letters. Find out more: aroa.to/lostwords
November 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Wie funktionierte das NS-Rechtssystem? Welche Rolle spielten Sondergerichte? Und was können uns die Hinrichtungsakten heute noch über die Verurteilten sagen? Diese Fragen beantwortet Dr. Alexander Korb im Interview zu #lostwords: arolsen-archives.org/mitmachen/lo...
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Charlotte Schulz, 20 years old, was executed on May 17, 1943, for “theft”. Her letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients of the letters. Find out more: aroa.to/lostwords
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Jan Stępniak, 19 years old, was executed on November 2, 1942, for “denigrating the German people”. His letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients of the letters. Find out more: aroa.to/lostwords
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Nikolaus Segota was executed on May 25, 1943, as an “international hotel thief”. His letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients of the letters. Find out more: aroa.to/lostwords
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Munich-Stadelheim was one of the “central execution centers” of the Nazi regime. The Nazis executed over 1,000 people there. More than fifty of their farewell letters were never delivered. More about the #lostwords project by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives: aroa.to/lostwords
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Marie Ehrlich was executed on February 10, 1944, for “subversion of the war effort”. Her letter was never sent. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients of the letters. Find out more: aroa.to/lostwords
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The Nazis executed over 1,000 people in the Munich-Stadelheim prison. Over 50 of the farewell letters they wrote were never dispatched. The #lostwords campaign by the Bavarian State Archives & the Arolsen Archives seeks to trace the intended recipients: arolsen-archives.org/en/participa...
October 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. Between 1942 and 1945, over 1,000 people were executed in Munich-Stadelheim prison. Many wrote farewell letters, more than 50 were never delivered. The #lostwords projects seeks to find their intended recipients. arolsen-archives.org/en/press-rel...
Undelivered farewell letters from victims of Nazi persecution | Arolsen Archives
The Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives start a cooperation on execution files from Munich-Stadelheim. The Munich-Stadelheim prison was a “central execution center” under National Sociali...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Ik moet mijn man van het vliegveld halen. Ik heb al 7 jaar geen auto meer gereden (pook links - in het donker). IK SCHIJT PEULEN!

#gezegden #lostwords
March 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
With so much negativity in the world it was many happy breaths of positivity to finally witness the Spell Songs project live on stage at the weekend. Beautiful music, lovely people, all the good tears. And "let the raven call you home" to fade... 🎶 🦊

#SpellSongs #Edinburgh #LiveMusic #LostWords
May 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Trikotagen - sagt man ja auch viel zu selten
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November 22, 2023 at 11:34 AM