Commemoration in Gudensberg: Remembering the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938

Commemoration in Gudensberg: Remembering the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938

Gudensberg will become a site of remembrance on November 9, 2024! Every year Germany remembers the terrible events of Kristallnacht in 1938, which began the terrible path to the Holocaust. That night, synagogues burned and Jewish people were brutally persecuted and murdered. A memorial that is also kept alive in Gudensberg to keep the memory of these atrocities alive!

By candlelight in the synagogue, the city of Gudensberg commemorates the pogrom night of November 9, 1938. Following the memorial hour, a city tour begins to the stumbling blocks of Jewish life. Photo: Pexels | Pixabay

Commemoration in the synagogue

At 6:00 p.m., citizens will gather in the Synagogue Cultural Center, where the November 9th Commemoration Working Group will be inviting people to a moving celebration. Dr. Werner Seibel provides celebratory sounds on the piano, while Dr. Dieter Vaupel and Alida Scheibli bring the tragic story of the Adler family from Obervorschütz to life. Students of Dr. Georg August Zinn School, the names of the victims who were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust will be read out. A haunting moment of memory!

Tour to the Stolpersteine

After the emotional memorial hour, everyone is invited to take part in a half-hour tour of the old town. Hans-Peter Klein will lead visitors to the stumbling blocks, which remember the Jewish citizens and tell their moving stories. In addition, the permanent exhibition “Between Repression and Remembering” is accessible in the cultural center from 5:00 p.m. These events are not only a sign of remembrance, but also an appeal against forgetting and a call for vigilance in times of increasing anti-Semitism!