Unions and historical workshop request central memorial for persecution and resistance
The working group "Active Against Right" of the ver.di district of South Hesse, together with the Darmstadt history workshop EV and the DGB city association Darmstadt, has submitted a proposal to the magistrate: a central museum or a memorial at the Nazi era be created. The focus should be on local history - i.e. on the events, crimes, forms of persecution and resistance in Darmstadt and today's districts during the time of National Socialism.
"There are many individual souvenirs in the urban area, but a central point of contact with a comprehensive overview has so far been missing," says the letter to the magistrate. The initiators want a place that not only presents historical exhibits, but also enables current educational work.
"This should not be a purely museum place, but a living space," emphasizes Karin Harder, managing director of the ver.di district of South Hesse. A concept is proposed that also performs work by school classes and students . The planned institution is intended to make life, persecution, the experiences and the resistance of people in Darmstadt authentically and interactively experienced during the Nazi era .
The organizations involved ask the magistrate of the Science City of Darmstadt to support the project and to contribute a corresponding application to the city council.
(Darmstadt - rer/ver.di)
