The historian Dr. Barbara Johr was born in 1950 and has lived in Bremen since 1972.
Her research mainly focuses on National Socialism; belong to their publications The bunker: An example of National Socialist madness. Bremen-Farge 1943-1945 (published 1988), Liberators and Liberated: War-Rape-Children (released in 1992, received the 1992 UNO AWARD for the best documentary of the year fighting for human rights) and Journeys into Life: Living on After a Childhood in Auschwitz (published in 1996).
The series of publications deals with the biographies of the 652 Bremen Nazi victims whose memory has been honored by the STOLPERSTEINE BREMEN project since 2004. After the six volumes on the regions North (2013), Center (2015), Ostertor/Oestliche Vorstadt (2016), Schwachhausen/Horn-Lehe (2017), Findorff/Walle/Gröpelingen (2019) and Neustadt (2020) there is now also Volume VII Hemelingen / Osterholz published. Several essays illuminate historical sites and explain the situation of Jews in Bremen during the Nazi era.