Günther Schwarberg (1926–2008)

Günther Schwarberg was born and raised in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany. After the end of World War II, he became a journalist, initially at the Weser Kurier and Bremer Nachrichten in Bremen. Later he worked for a news agency, for Bild am Sonntag magazine, and then for more than 25 years at the weekly Der Stern. His exhaustively researched 1979 series of articles in Der Stern, and subsequent book The SS Doctor and the Children, brought the World War II-era war crimes committed in Neuengamme concentration camp and murder of children at Bullenhuser Damm School in Hamburg to the public conscience in Germany and the rest of the world. For this work, he received the Anne Frank Medal in 1987 together with his wife, lawyer Barbara Hüsing. The couple also founded the Children of Bullenhuser Damm Association, which arranged to have the site of the school declared a place of remembrance and to create a rose garden to commemorate the victims.
They also gave numerous talks about the children and created a large traveling exhibit. Schwarberg also published numerous other books. His last book was his memoir, Das vergess ich nie (I Will Never Forget That), which appeared in 2007.