Month: April 2020 (page 6)

Historical background Konzentrationslager Buchenwald / Post Weimar, initially called Konzentrationslager Ettersberg, was a German concentration camp founded in Ettersberg near…

Description of commemoration A very special monument was erected in the green belt along Goethe Street in Leipzig, commemorating the…

Historical background The first metal plaque was installed at the Jena West Railway Station in 1988. In 1990 it was…

Historical background Near the city hall of Kassel, at 8 Königsstraße, is the historic Aschrott Fountain (Aschrott-Brunnen). It was built…

Historical background The plaque was unveiled on the 55th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Gypsies from Bad Hersfeld…

Historical background   Inside the side gate to the palace in Fulda, leading to the inner courtyard (a car park),…

Historical background The memorial plaque was unveiled exactly on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of fifty Gypsies from Marburg…

See: Też. Gießen (stoplpersteine Mettbach) Historical background The last flat in which Ferdinand Klein’s family (a Yenish family) had lived…

Historical background Gypsies from Trier were deported to concentration camps in three waves: in 1938, 1940 and 1943. It is…

Historical background Gypsy children named Anna and Robert Reinhardt lived in the Nardinihaus orphanage in Pirmasens for seven years, until…

Historical background 71 Sinti were deported from Worms to KL Auschwitz on May 16, 1940.   Description of commemoration In…