{"id":8109,"date":"2019-11-19T05:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2019-11-19T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T05:30:49","slug":"heodore-wonja-michael-the-last-black-witness-1925-2019-rest-in-perfect-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=8109","title":{"rendered":"Theodore Wonja Michael THE LAST BLACK WITNESS (1925-2019) ! Rest in perfect peace."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"R\u00e9sultats de recherche d'images pour \u00ab\u00a0theodor wonja michael deutschland\u00a0\u00bb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de\/media\/thumbs\/3\/3bf45424c3281fd947ec5c0aab3095ddv1_max_450x338_b3535db83dc50e27c1bb1392364c95a2.jpg?key=f68324\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" \/>Born in Berlin in 1925, was forced to act in \u00ab\u00a0human zoos\u00a0\u00bb during his childhood. His three siblings fled to France after \u00ab\u00a0Negroids\u00a0\u00bb were declared \u00ab\u00a0undesirable\u00a0\u00bb in 1936, but Michael couldn&rsquo;t leave Germany. He worked as a bellhop at Berlin&rsquo;s Hotel Excelsior (before being kicked out by a Nazi guest).*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In early 1943, Michael was sent with other Afro-Germans into a forced-labour camp near Berlin. Theodore Wonja survived the Nazi terror. Many other Black germans\u2013Cameroonians like Martin Dibobe, Erika N&rsquo;gando were deported and murdered in concentration camps. *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Reference<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Theodor Michael, Deutsch sein und schwarz dazu: Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, 1. April 2015<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*ADI and Africa&amp;Science pay today an hommage to this last Black survivor<br \/>\nand forgotten Hitler\u2019s Victim. *<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/you-better-go-back-to-africa\/av-39298146<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Fidel Amoussou-Moderan<\/span><br \/>\nDoctoral researcher, History,<br \/>\nR.U.B, Germany<br \/>\nContributor for the Journal<br \/>\nafrica-and-science.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Berlin in 1925, was forced to act in \u00ab\u00a0human zoos\u00a0\u00bb during his childhood. His three siblings fled to France after \u00ab\u00a0Negroids\u00a0\u00bb were declared \u00ab\u00a0undesirable\u00a0\u00bb in 1936, but Michael couldn&rsquo;t leave Germany. He worked as a bellhop at Berlin&rsquo;s Hotel Excelsior (before being kicked out by a Nazi guest).* In early 1943, Michael was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}