Richter was one of the outstanding pianists of his generation. However, the "Warsaw Autumn" also featured musicians who played instruments in an unconventional and surprising way.
He was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp and in Buchenwald, and after liberation in the town of Haren an der Ems, known as Maczków from 1945-1948.
Rose garden at the Bullenhuser Damm memorial site, Hamburg, June 2022. View onto the fence with the memorial panels dedicated to the murdered children, doctors and caretakers