'Never again' - memory of liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp eighty years ago
On the occasion of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, which is on January 27, 2025 for the eightest time, Mayor Hanno Benz recalls Darmstadt's Jewish faith and Sinti, who fell victim to the deportations and the genocide of the National Socialists.
“The Holocaust Memorial Day committed worldwide recalls the horror committed by the National Socialists and the millions caused by them. Especially at a time when anti -Semitic and xenophobic positions in Germany, which have long been overcome, the importance of the exclamation 'never again' must be emphasized. In order to quote the Shoah-survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel: 'To talk about it is impossible to silence it,' said Mayor Hanno Benz.von Darmstadt from the Nazi dictatorship of over 3,400 men, women and children in Jewish faith in German extermination camp, above all to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but also to Belzec, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor and Piaski, and murdered there. Among them were personalities such as Marie Trier (1895-1942), who in Darmstadt a well-known literary and artist salon company, the curator of the Hessian State Museum, the art historian Dr. Karl Freund (1882-1943) and the former Interior Minister of the People's State of Hesse, Heinrich Fulda (1860-1943).
Mayor Benz also commemorates Darmstadt people such as the Wehrmacht major Karl Plagge, who saved several hundred Jews in Wilnna, and the Otto Busse, which was drawn to Darmstadt after the Second World War, who did the same in Bialystok. Both were honored in Yad Vashem as "just among the peoples".
The official memorial event of the science city of Darmstadt will take place on Monday, January 27, at 11 a.m. in the Central Station in cooperation with the Darmstadt Justus-Liebig school, whose own history is linked to the deportations from Darmstadt, and the State Theater Darmstadt Musical framework takes place. Admission is from 10:30 a.m. For safety reasons, pocket controls are carried out for safety reasons.
Pupils of the Justus Liebig School design project contributions that relate to the role of the school building in the Nazi era, which the National Socialists used as a collective and "round" compulsory camp for the German-Jewish deportation victims from the Volksstaat Hesse became. The focus is also on the Lio School project "Story Collectors", including with time and two-wet talks.
In the evening, Mayor Hanno Benz also becomes at the rally “Never again is now. Together against anti -Semitism and Israel hatred ”. The event begins at 6.30 p.m. on Luisenplatz and is organized by the initiative "Never again-Darmstadt" in cooperation with the Darmstadt working group of the German-Israeli Society eV
The Förderverein Liberal Synagogue Darmstadt EV also organizes the tour "In the footsteps of the Darmstadt Auschwitz victims of Jewish faith" (using the example of Marie Trier, Heinrich Fulda, Karl Freund, 2.30 p.m., meeting point Liberal Synagogue, Clinic site, access via Bleich-/ Height Gagernstraße). Participation is free of charge.
The SV Darmstadt 98 will organize a commemoration walk on Monday evening. This starts at 5:15 p.m. on Schlossgartenplatz, the founding location of SV 98. The path continues through Ernst-Ludwig-Straße, Holzstraße, past the Art Nouveau bath, then the Hoch- and Annastraße along the endpoint to the Dr.-Karl-Hess -Square at the Merck Stadium at the Böllenfalltor. On its route, the commemorative walk stops on various stumbling blocks, of which is reminded of 98s, which were followed during the Nazi era. At around 7.15 p.m., a wreath-laying, including various speeches, including a contribution by Mayor Hanno Benz, will take place on Dr.-Karl-Heß-Platz.
With the premiere of the song cycle "Letters to Fred" by Bracha Bdil on Sunday, January 26, 7 p.m., in the Staatstheater Darmstadt, the murdered and the rescued of the von Fred Herzberg family will be reminded. "The works of Gideon Klein, Dmitri Schostakowitsch and Morton Feldman circle with the means of music the burning questions that ask the memory for being human in the presence and the future," said Director Karsten Wiegand.
Since 1996, January 27th has been on the initiative of the then Federal President Roman Herzog Herzog in Germany, and since 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on the initiative of the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has been committed worldwide.
(Darmstadt - / Fre, Stip)
