Carl Gärtig

  • Born in Weidau, Germany

  • Began working as a coal miner and grew interested in politics.

  • He entered United States.

  • Arrested for publishing and distributing anti-Nazi material.

  • Arrested for distributing illegal writings.

  • Imprisoned in Lichtenburg concentration camp and at Kassel prison.

  • Tranferred to the newly opened Buchenwald concentration camp.

  • Liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp.