From The Blog
9 June 2025
Marie Nejar died last month at the age of 95. As far as the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD) is aware, she was the last Black survivor of Nazi Germany. She was born in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1930. Her mother, Cécile Nejar, was a musician who performed on Hamburg’s Reeperbahn. Her father, Albert Yessow, was a Ghanaian seafarer working aboard the Victoria.
