Schwerin (dpa/mv) - The Holocaust is being commemorated in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with a documentary film about Jewish families in the north-east and a reading tour on 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany. The half-hour film "Shabbat Shalom" premiered on Tuesday and looks at Jewish lives and fates in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, according to the Ministry of Culture in Schwerin. In the coming year, the film is to be made available to all schools in the state as teaching material.
Education is an essential means against anti-Semitism and resentment, stressed Secretary of State for Culture Susanne Bowen (SPD). "Whoever associates faces with history will understand it."
Stations in Wismar, Schwerin, Bad Sülze and Rostock are documented in the film. The history of the stumbling blocks and that of the Jewish families Blass and Karseboom in Wismar and Levy and Geber in Bad Sülze would be described. The film will be spoken by the last survivor of the Jewish Levi family from Bad Sülze, Léon Geber.
A reading tour with Uwe von Seltmann also started on Tuesday. The journalist and author will read from his book about 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany, which was published last year, in seven places in MV. He will be accompanied by the saxophonist Warnfried Altmann. Readings will take place in the city history museum in Waren (November 16th), in the city archive of Neubrandenburg (November 17th) and in the community hall of Wismar town hall (November 19th).
