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by Soojin Ryou from Punggyeong World Cultures e.V.
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On February 25, 1992, 68-year-old Holocaust survivor Blanka Zmigrod was shot and killed in Kettenhofweg by right-wing terrorist John Ausonius.
John Ausonius had entered the country from Sweden in order to evade a police manhunt there. Back in 1984, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison in Sweden for an attack on a fugitive, but was released after about seven months. Since 1991, he committed ten attacks on racialized people. His fifth victim, Iranian Jimmy Ranjbar, did not survive the attack. Another five victims survived only by pure chance. After the last attack, Ausonius fled to Germany.
The Blood&Honour movement’s ultra-right “Field Manual” strategy paper celebrated his actions as an example of “leaderless resistance.” i The NSU’s series of murders also began in the same year. There are many parallels between his crimes and those of the NSU, such as self-financing through bank robberies, use of bicycles and rented vehicles, impersonation, and selection of victims and attacks by gunshots to the head. Until 2012, however, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) dismissed the paper as the “private opinion” of individuals. Only in the course of the NSU investigations did the BfV write that Ausonius might be known to the NSU trio from the Field Manual and might have served as a role model. This function of Ausonius is typical in the broad international network of neo-Nazis, stretching from Scandinavia to North America.
Blanka Zmigrod was accused of stealing Ausonius’ pocket computer a few days before the murder when she took his coat at her workplace, the Mövenpick restaurant. After reading her name tag, he racially insulted her.
Whether Blanka Zmigrod was also targeted because of her Jewish background remains unclear, but it is likely, because her concentration camp prisoner number was clearly visible on her forearm. Ausonius is the only known right-wing terrorist so far in Frankfurt’s postwar history to have murdered a person of Jewish faith. However, the prosecution made no reference to these aspects. He was charged with murder for greed when he was extradited to Germany and tried in 2017, 25 years after Blanka’s death.
On March 1, 2018, the Blanka Zmigrod Initiative symbolically renamed Kettenhofweg to Blanka Zmigrod Street. Anita Franke, spokeswoman of the IBZ, said in her press release: “For 25 years, Frankfurt politics has been silent about the murder of our fellow citizen Blanka Zmigrod. (…) With a memorial and the renaming of the street we want to make sure that Blanka Zmigrod will never be forgotten!”
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Printed Matter 18/12724 (14.06.2017): Answer of the Federal Government to the Small Question of the Members of Parliament Martina Renner, Ulla Jelpke, Petra Pau and the Parliamentary Group DIE LINKE. – Printed Matter 18/12532 – Investigations into the so-called Lasermann as a possible blueprint for the National Socialist Underground (NSU).
LOTTA Magazine (10/25/2017): The “Laserman
Blanka Zmigrod Initiative (02.03.2018): On the renaming of Kettenhofweg to “Blanka Zmigrod Street“.
Blanka Zmigrod Initiative (01. 03. 2018): Press release on the symbolic street renaming of March 1, 2018.