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BERLIN, GERMANY |
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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. |
Translation of
plaque:
"At this point, there was the first retirement home of the
Jewish community of Berlin. 1942 transformed the Gestapo to
a concentration camp for Jewish Burger.
55,000 Berlin Jews
from the infant to the elderly were dragged to concentration
camps Auschwitz and Theresienstadt and brutally murdered."
Never Forget
Resist War
Guard Peace |
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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.
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. |
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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.
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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.
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DRESDEN, GERMANY |
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"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." |
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HOFGEISMAR, GERMANY |
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After WWII, there was a
displaced persons' camp in Hofgeismar, Hesse, Germany.
The monument was
erected circa 1945-6. The inscription reads:
of our brethren sons of
Israel
May their souls be
bound in the knot of life.
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LEIPZIG, GERMANY |
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"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." |
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photos, left: "In the city of Leigpzig, 1400 citizens of
Jewish faith fell victim to the Fascist terror."
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PATERBORN, GERMANY |
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The
eight metal plates list the names of the Holocaust Victims.
The memorial, called a "Mahnmal" (Mahnen means to admonish
or remind; the "mal" portion denotes it to be a memorial
like "Denkmal") it is located in the space where the old
Synagogue stood, The street name is "Am Busdorf". It is a
1996 Photo.
The view is to the south. In the background is the St.
Vincenz Hospital.
Foto: Stadtarchiv
Paderborn / Trapp. |
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ROTENBURG AN DER FULDA,
GERMANY |
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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.
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ROTHENBURG, GERMANY |
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"To the
memory of our Jewish townspeople, ...of the time of 1933 to 1938
(taken) out of Rothenburg..." |
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