Oldenburg (street)
Historical background
See: Oldenburg (memorial)
Description of commemoration
The road sign informs that the street we are on is called “Mechau Family”. The Mechau family lived in Ziegelhofes at Friedhofsweg in Oldenburg. Giving the street their name is a way of commemorating 22 people, the closest relatives of Augusta and Otta Mechau, who were arrested on 3 March 1943 and then deported from the slaughterhouse building in Oldenburg to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Between 1943 and 1945, they were all murdered there.
Inscriptions
In German:
Familie-Mechau-Straße / Oldenburger Sinti – Familie mit 22 Personen. / 1943-1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet.
Translation:
The Street of the Mechau Family / Sinti from Oldenburg – family of 22 people. / Murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in the years 1943-1945.
Date of the unveiling
May 30, 1992
Initiator
Citizen initiative of the local Sinti
Address
Familie-Mechau-Straße, 26121 Oldenburg, Germany
Location
53°09’03.0″N 8°11’39.9″E
53.150833, 8.194417
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Materials
http://gedenkorte.sintiundroma.de/index.php?ortID=67
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