The way of the Groß' family through Germany

Berlin

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12nd August 1944 Nikolaus Groß is arrested by Cologne Gestapo (secret state police) and transferred to the concentration camp Ravensbrück
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Diary entry: "Father arrested"
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Pictures from the concentration camp in Ravensbrück
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Gestapo dossier on Nikolaus Groß
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Please read the letters from prison
30th August 1944 Elisabeth Groß writes to the Gestapo to find out the whereabouts of her husband.
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Letter to the Gestapo
second half of 1944 Nikolaus Groß' transfer to Berlin-Tegel
Klicken Sie für mehr zu diesem Thema Prison chaplain Buchholz about the prisoners
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Pictures of the prison cell in Berlin-Tegel
Beginning of October 1944 Elisabeth Groß' moving to Niederwenigern
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Picture of the house in Niederwenigern
3rd December 1944 Elisabeth Groß' first visit in prison; further visits by Elisabeth Groß in prison on 6th January 1945, 13th January 1945 and on 18th January 1945
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Secret message to Nikolaus Groß
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English From the Nikolaus-Groß-Musical: "Die wunderklaren Sterne"
20th January 1945 Plea for clemency to Minister of justice Thierack, Elisabeth Groß fails in her attempt to convey a copy of the plea of clemency to nuncio Archbishop Orsenigo
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Letter to the nuncio in Berlin
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Plea for clemency to the Minister of justice
15th January 1945 Sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof under the chair of Roland Freisler
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Pictures of the Volksgerichtshof
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Report of the SS- trial observer
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Statement of Nikolaus Groß about Roland Freisler
23rd January 1945 Nikolaus Groß' execution in the prison Berlin-Plötzensee by hanging
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English The final farewell letter to his family
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English From the Nikolaus-Groß-Musical: "Thine is the earth"
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Marianne Hapig on the execution of Nikolaus Groß
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Death certificate of Nikolaus Groß
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Religious commemoration on his death
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Proclamandum St. Agnes (his home parish in Cologne)
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Tombstone of Elisabeth and Nikolaus Groß
Click here to get more information about this themeIn English Cross and rosary of Nikolaus Groß
In English To the homepage "Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand", "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Plötzensee" (Places of commemoration in Berlin)
23rd January 1945 Returning to Niederwenigern
Click here to get more information about this themeOnly in German Fictional Impression of Elisabeth Groß under the gallows of Plötzensee

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