Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (miniature model) Historical background See: Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp) The Roma and Sinti are also mentioned on the miniature model in… Continue reading “Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (miniature model)”…
Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (plaque, wall) Historical background See: Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp) The preparations for erecting the main memorial began in 1947 and involved the… Continue reading “Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (plaque, wall)”…
Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp) Historical background In 1935, just after the Wehrmacht’s political and armed formation was recognised as the national armed forces of… Continue reading “Lohheide – Bergen-Belsen (camp)”…
Wuppertal (plaque, Friedrich-Engels-Allee) Historical background Description of commemoration On the front of the building of the police headquarters in the city… Continue reading “Wuppertal (plaque, Friedrich-Engels-Allee)”…
Gevelsberg (memorial) Historical background (Gypsy context) 37 local Roma were deported from Gevelsberg on March 11, 1943. In memory of this event,… Continue reading “Gevelsberg (memorial)”…
Düsseldorf (stone memorial, Heinefeld) Historical background See also: Düsseldorf (memorial, Alter Hafen) Before the war, in the Golzheim district in the suburbs of… Continue reading “Düsseldorf (stone memorial, Heinefeld)”…
Köln (plaque, trail, Auenweg) Historical background A plaque commemorating the victims of Nazism deported from the Rhineland is located near the tunnel entrance leading… Continue reading “Köln (plaque, trail, Auenweg)”…
Darmstadt (memorial, Kirschenallee) Historical background In the period from March 1942 to February 1943, more than 3,000 Jewish and Gypsy families were deported… Continue reading “Darmstadt (memorial, Kirschenallee)”…
Frankfurt am Main (plaque, Hauptfriedhof) Historical background See, for example: Frankfurt am Main (plaque, Braubachstrasse) Description of commemoration At the Gewann Central Cemetery in… Continue reading “Frankfurt am Main (plaque, Hauptfriedhof)”…
Würzburg (plaque) Description of commemoration In the square in front of the Lutheran deanery church of St. Stefan, Evangelical and Catholic youth… Continue reading “Würzburg (plaque)”…
Flossenbürg (exhibition) Historical background See: Flossenbürg (camp) Description of commemoration The permanent exhibition “Flossenbürg Concentration Camp1938-1945” is housed in a former… Continue reading “Flossenbürg (exhibition)”…