Thuringia: Project commemorates murdered Jews

Weimar (dpa/th) - Since Thursday, around 2,300 names of murdered Jews can be found in a digital Thuringian memorial book.

Thuringia: Project commemorates murdered Jews

Weimar (dpa/th) - Since Thursday, around 2,300 names of murdered Jews can be found in a digital Thuringian memorial book. They are the names of those who were deported from Thuringia to the Theresienstadt concentration camp under National Socialism because of their faith or their Jewish origins.

Before 1933, more than 6,000 Jews lived in what is now Thuringia. Around 2,500 are said to have died in the course of the Shoah. The total number of Thuringian fatalities is not yet certain. In order to commemorate all those who were murdered, the memorial book was published as part of an art campaign.

The project was created in cooperation with the Topf Memorial

During the art campaign by the artist Margarete Rabow, the names of the murdered Jews are also chalked up in public places throughout Thuringia. It all started in May, when 474 names were written in chalk on Erfurt's Willy-Brandt-Platz. A similar action is to follow in Meiningen on September 9th and in Gera on September 11th. The campaign will conclude on September 19 in Weimar with the writing down of all Thuringian names that have been checked and documented up to that point. A total of 2,500 names should then be written on Stéphane-Hessel-Platz with school chalk.

Interested parties can register for the respective campaigns at write-against-das-vergessen.eu. But there should also be enough space for spontaneous writers.