After a difficult phase of internal renewal within the Jewish community, Max Privorozki took over as president of the community in February 1999. He represents the interests of the community in the city and is Chairman of the State Association of Jewish Communities in Saxony-Anhalt, which is a member of the Central Council of Jews […]
The public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk commits itself to the preservation of Auschwitz
On November 19, 1998, NDR editor Patricia Schlesinger reported in the magazine “Panorama” about the use of donations that ARD viewers had donated over several years to build and maintain the Auschwitz concentration camp memorial. „The fall of the Iron Curtain also opened paths leading back into the darkest chapter of German history. The Norddeutscher […]
Old-new and authentic. Museum and Place of Remembrance of Jewish Berlin
The Centrum Judaicum was reopened in 1995 after a seven-year reconstruction phase. Today the iconic building is a Berlin landmark, a museum and once again the seat of the Jewish Community of Berlin – and an internationally renowned place of remembrance. The permanent exhibition “Tuet auf die Pforten” (“Door to the Gates”) on the history […]
Inauguration of the “Landjuden an der Sieg” memorial in Windeck-Rosbach
The “Landjuden an der Sieg” memorial site is inextricably linked to the history of the Seligmann family: they lived in the house on Bergstrasse in Rosbach for several generations. In the early 1980s, Hilde Seligmann contacted the district archive because of the exhibition “Jews on the Rhine and Sieg” and gave them numerous photos and […]
Symbolic Cornerstone Ceremony
In the 1980s, the East Berlin Jewish community increasingly brought forward the idea of establishing a Jewish museum on the site of the New Synagogue. In the run-up to the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the November pogroms, foreign policy considerations in particular led to the establishment of the New Synagogue Berlin – Centrum […]
Installation of a commemorative plaque
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the November pogrom, a commemorative plaque was placed in the “House of the Island,” which bears the following dedication: In memory of the Jewish citizens of the city of Norderney, who died a violent death or were expelled by National Socialist terror. To the living as a […]
Twin cities Solingen and Ness Ziona, Israel, and the foundation of the project group Jewish Cemetery
In 1987, the Alexander Coppel Comprehensive School (formerly the Solingen Municipal Comprehensive School) assumed sponsorship of the Jewish Cemetery. Since March 1988, a project group has maintained the gravesites and the grounds on Estherweg. In this way, hundreds of students have already become acquainted with the history and culture of the former Jewish community. The […]
Approaching the former state – reconstruction of the interior
In 1986, the Torah roll shrine, the women’s gallery, and the tracery of the windows were reconstructed according to historical photographs; the false ceiling was removed and hanging lamps replicated: The architecture once again became visible to some extent. In Essen, as in all of Germany, the number of Jews increased fourfold after 1989 due […]
Documentary film “We were so beloved” with protagonists from Ruppichteroth
The documentary „We were so beloved“ by Manfred Kirchheimer, shot in Washington Heights, New York, portrays German and Austrian emigrants who fled the Holocaust and formed a new community there, who shared memories but processed their traumatic experiences in different ways . His friend Walter Hess from Ruppichteroth not only worked behind the camera on […]
The Old Synagogue becomes a “memorial site”
In 1980, following a fire in the industrial design exhibition, the Old Synagogue was established as a “place of remembrance and commemoration.” A first exhibition on the theme of “resistance against fascism” was presented, albeit without reference to the history of the building. The first director, however, established contacts with Jewish emigrants, whom the city […]
Founding of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center
Through their remarkable activism and remembrance efforts, Montreal survivors established the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center on September 9, 1979. This organisation educates the public about the dangers of hatred, antisemitism, racism, and indifference. Between 1947 and 1955, over 35,000 Holocaust survivors settled in Canada, mostly in Montreal. As they rebuild their lives, they were compelled […]