Lübeck is reminiscent of November pogroms and deportations

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck commemorates the victims of National Socialist violence with a series of events.

In addition to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the Jewish community, the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, numerous associations and initiatives, the House of Cultures, the churches, schools and universities also take part in the series of events under the motto “Time to Remember - For the Future” , the Lübeck Theater, the Willy-Brandt-Haus and the city's museums.

Lübeck - It starts with a reading on Wednesday (October 27th) in the renovated Carlebach Synagogue.

The author Thomas Sparr and the former district court president Hans-Ernst Böttcher talk about Paul Celan's poem "Todesfuge" and its relation to Lübeck.

At the same location, on November 9, the Jewish Community commemorates the destruction of Jewish shops and apartments by the Nazi regime on November 9, 1939.

Even after 83 years, the victims should be remembered and attitudes against anti-Semitism, racism and misanthropy should be shown, said the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

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The Museum für Natur und Umwelt participates in the program with a lecture on National Socialist racial ideology.

In addition, several events follow the destroyed Jewish culture in Germany and tell of the fate of persecuted and displaced people from Lübeck.

This is how the people who were deported from Lübeck to Riga on December 6, 1941, should be remembered, the Hanseatic city announced.

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