Iyalin Garber [1879-2013] – Togo | Jamus
Labaran rayuwa
Robbie Aitken, 2022
Har zuwa mutuwarsa a shekara ta 1950 mutumin Togo Amemenjong, wanda aka fi sani da Joseph Garber, ya zauna a Berlin kusan shekaru hamsin. Rayuwarsa da ta ’ya’yansa da aka haifa a Berlin sun kwatanta yadda rayuwar Bakar fata Jamus ta kasance ta hanyar mulkin mallaka da abubuwan da suka gada daga baya kuma ta hanyar tsarin launin fata na Nazis.
Daular ce ta kawo Garber zuwa Jamus. Da farko a cikin 1891 ya zo ne saboda dalilai na ilimi sannan a 1896 ya zo don nuna shi a matsayin wani ɓangare na gidan zoo na ɗan adam da aka shirya a baje kolin mulkin mallaka na Jamus na farko a Berlin-Treptow. A karshen bikin baje kolin ya yanke shawarar zama, inda ya samu horo a matsayin dinki, ya kuma yi wa sojojin kasar Jamus rigunan yaki a lokacin yakin duniya, kafin a kira shi yaki. A Berlin-Neukölln ya yi aure a shekara ta 1910, ya fara iyali, kuma ya yi nasarar yin tela na maza har zuwa Babban Mawuyacin hali.
Ba wani ɗan ƙasar Jamus ba, kawai batun mulkin mallaka na Jamus, ƙarshen daular Jamus ya bar Yusufu da 'ya'yansa ba su da ƙasa. Wannan rashin kariyar doka ya sa iyalin suka ƙara yin rauni da zarar Nazis ya hau kan mulki. Kamar duk mazauna Baƙar fata, Yusufu da ’ya’yansa da suka manyanta yanzu an ware su kuma ana fuskantar ƙarin wariya. An kama Yusufu sau da yawa saboda rashin takaddun shaida, yayin da 'ya'yansa ba su da wani zaɓi sai dai su lalata rayuwa ta hanyar yin wasan kwaikwayo na ban mamaki da kuma fina-finan farfagandar Nazi da ke ɗaukaka mulkin mallaka a baya.
Yusufu da ’ya’yansa sun tsira daga mulkin Nazi. A cikin bayan-1945 duk 'yan'uwan Garber hudu sun bar Jamus kuma sun nemi gina sababbin rayuwa a wani wuri.
Contact:
Robbie Aitken, Sheffield Hallam University, r.aitken(at)shu.ac.uk; (at)rjma_uk
Special Thanks/Credits:
J.W., daughter of Magdalene/Madeleine Garber, Eveline Meister, Bebero Lehman and Maresa Pinto
Literature:
Bundesarchiv Berlin R1001 6350
Bundesarchiv Berlin R1001 7562
Bundesarchiv Berlin R1001 5572
Landesarchiv Berlin A Rep. 341-02 Nr.11649
Archives nationales d'outre-mer, Aix-en Provence Fonds Ministeriels – Affaires Politiques 614/2
Private Archive, Family Garber
Further Reading:
Aitken, Robbie and Eve Rosenhaft, Black Germany: The Making and Unmaking of a Diaspora Community, 1884-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Susan Lewerenz, ‘The Tropical Express in Nazi Germany’, in Len Platt, Tobias Becker, and David Linton (eds), Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 242-57.
Stationen
Girma a Aneho
Kwarewar Farko na Jamus a Schloss Buderose
Nunin Nunin Mulkin Mulkin Jamus Na Farko 1896
Zazzagewa
Gidan Iyali da Rayuwar Iyali
5 Bosambos
Rashin kasa
Keɓancewa, ɗaurin kurkuku, da tsira a lokacin yaƙi na Berlin
Bayan yakin
Sabbin Farko
Madeleine Garber