Memory in Nümbrecht: Remember the horrors of the Reichspogromnacht

Memory in Nümbrecht: Remember the horrors of the Reichspogromnacht

Nümbrecht, Deutschland - In Nümbrecht, a moving commemoration of the 1938 Reichspogromnacht was held on Saturday evening. Numerous guests gathered at the former Jewish cemetery to commemorate the terrible events that took place 86 years ago. Mayor Hilko Speitiius emphasized the urgency to remember this dark time: "Something like this should never happen again. It is important that we get up and show ourselves. We don't forget."

District Administrator Jochen Hagn spoke urgently about the atrocities, which at that time happened in public: "This act of barbarism mocks every human assessment. We don't want something like that again." On November 9, 1938, the synagogues burned, humans were expelled, existences were wiped out. Hagn called for a determined fight against anti -Semitism in all areas of life, be it in clubs, on the street or on social media. Pupils of the secondary school in Wiehl were commemorating the Nümbrecht families Bähr, Herz and Goldbach and performing the text of a Jewish resistance song that criticizes the passivity in such difficult times.

emotional performances and commemoration

Pastor Michael Stries recalled that Nümbrecht once had a synagogue and that hostility to Jews goes back to ancient times. He warned that anti -Semitism knows no political limits today: "The present looks threatened." The event was musically accompanied by Jaroslaw Petresky, who both a moving piece from the Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" and the melody to "Burning brothers, it burns" on the violin. After these performances, Harry Schulze and Frank Bohlscheid resigned a wreath on the memorial stone, while Marion Reinecke spoke a Jewish prayer for the dead, the Kaddish, to honor Leo Bähr and the Nümbrecht Jews.

Judith Dürr-Steinhart from the Freundeskreis Wiehl-Jokneam closed the moving event with a thank you to the many present, especially to the young people who made an important part of the memory with their contribution. The event was not only a memory, but also an urgent call to vigilance and acting against anti -Semitism in today's time.