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Around 120 people participated in the memorial march to send a message against xenophobia and right-wing extremism.
Groß-Gerau. On Sunday, November 9, 2025 approximately 120 citizens the fate of the victims of the November pogroms of 1938 and sent a clear message against xenophobia and right-wing extremism .
In cooperation with the church congregations, city council of Groß-Gerau organized the annual commemoration . From the market square , the participants marched in silence along Darmstädter and Frankfurter Straße to the memorial site of the former synagogue on Adolf-Göbel-Straße.
At the memorial plaque Dean Heike Mause of the Protestant Deanery of Groß-Gerau-Rüsselsheim and Mayor Jörg Rüddenklau laid a wreath . In their speeches, they recalled the crimes of the National Socialist regime and warned that peace and democracy are not to be taken for granted.
Students from the Prälat-Diehl-Schule provided a special form of remembrance by reading aloud the names of Jewish citizens who had to flee or were deported during the Nazi era.
(Gross-Gerau-Red/PSGG)
Featured image: Groß-Gerau district town/Gerd Keim
