For the first time in 2017, after a visit to their great-grandfather’s homeland, the descendants of Hermann Gärtner asked the community of Ruppichteroth to think about laying “Stolpersteine” in order to remember the fate of the murdered and expelled Jews of the village. In 2018, two final classes from the secondary school who, after a contemporary […]
Solingen gets an education institution and memorial center
In early 2019, the “Arbeitskreis Verfolgung und Widerstand in Solingen 1933–1945” (Working Group Persecution and Resistance in Solingen 1933–1945) campaigned for the establishment of an educational institution and memorial center at the site of the former newspaper Bergische Arbeiterstimme and the scene of the murder of Max Leven in the pogrom night. This is where […]