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Germany

BERLIN

BONN

DRESDEN

LEIPZIG

ROTENBURG AN DER FULDA

ROTHENBURG

BERLIN, GERMANY

	Unfortunately, the Jews who were too elderly could not leave and presumably perished at some point before or during the war. The sculpture in this garden is dedicated to these tragically doomed people. On Oranienburgstrasse is a large synagogue (built in 1866) whose large prayer hall once seated 3,000 people.	Today, the building is used by an organization known as Centrum Judaicum, a Jewish community center with a small museum. In 1930, Albert Einstein once played his violin in the synagogue. The Jewish quarter where the synagogue is situated was the site of several pogroms. In 1938, during Kristallnacht, the synagogue was set on fire but was saved from being burned badly by an area police chief.	In the early forties, it was used as a gathering point for the Jews before they were sent to concentration camps. During World War II, the Germans built a concrete bunker in the main hall of the synagogue; thus, in 1943, the synagogue was damaged by Allied air raids. With the aid of philanthropist Roland Lauder and others, the synagogue was eventually restored, the work commencing in 1988. It is said that in the course of the repairs, workers found a non-extinguishing lamp.
The Jewish cemetery on Oranienburgstrasse in Berlin is located in a quarter where Jews used to live. Most of their institutions could be found here, including a synagogue and an asylum for elderly Jews. With the rise of Nazism in Germany, many Jews left the neighborhood before it was too late.

BONN, GERMANY

Front Side of Memorial:
600 Bonn Citizens
Victims of Nazism and
to you who died, deprived of your own rights, humiliated, dishonored,
for remembrance

to us as a warning...

Memorial to the victims of National Socialism in Bonn at Kaiserplatz, in the center of the city. The stone was installed in 1950, first at the Hofgarten, a large park by the University of Bonn.

In 1969, the memorial was moved in the wake of the subway construction in the Public Garden, where it fell a bit into oblivion. Only in 1997, the stone came to its present location.

The front text originated from the year 1950 and described an incorrect number of casualties, so on the back of the stone, a revised text was written.

"Remember your murdered Jews more....that this time will never return."

Erected on 9 Nov 1968 by the city of Beuel (a municipal district of Bonn.)

At number 27 Colmanstrasse is a memorial plaque to the twin brothers Oelbermann who were both born in this house. As founders of the Federal Nerother migrant bird (Wandervogel) and committed leaders of the youth movement, they fell under the Nazi persecution.
Robert:
29 Mar 1941
KZ-Dachau;
Karl:
Survived in exile in Africa and found the New Nerother Union in 1950-1.

DRESDEN, GERMANY

"With shame and in sadness,
Christians remember the Jewish citizens of this city.
In 1933, Jews living in Dresden numbered 4,675,
In 1945, there were but 70.
We were silent when their houses of worship were burned.
We did not accept Jews as our brothers and sisters when they were disenfranchised, deported and murdered.

We pray for forgiveness and shalom
November 1988."

Inscription illegible
in photo.

LEIPZIG, GERMANY

		"Memorial on the site of the Great Community Synagogue in remembrance of the segregated, persecuted and murdered Jewish citizens of Leipzig during the time of National Socialist Rule."
		photos, left: "In the city of Leigpzig, 1400 citizens of Jewish faith fell victim to the Fascist terror."

ROTENBURG AN DER FULDA, GERMANY

This memorial commemorates two things:

1. The Jewish community and Jewish cemetery, where the oldest gravestone dates back to 1748.
2. The Shoah.

The memorial stands at the entrance to the cemetery.

ROTHENBURG, GERMANY

"To the memory of our Jewish townspeople, ...of the time of 1933 to 1938 (taken) out of Rothenburg..."