A story behind every name: commemoration of the dead at the Jewish cemetery

Created: 11/22/2022, 13:11

"Never again war, we had hoped," said Gauting's mayor Dr.

Brigitte Kössinger (centre) and expressed concern about the war in Ukraine.

She praised the participation of young people in the commemoration.

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Mayor Dr.

Brigitte Koessinger.

Because when the names were read out, the survivors of the concentration camps fell “from anonymity”.

Gauting – Despite the cold and wet weather, around 80 people from Würmtal took part in the commemoration.

It was "a great honor" for him that, in addition to teachers and young people from the three high schools, their first mayors were also present.

"Never again, we had hoped," said Gauting's mayor in her speech.

And yet, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, war landed in the middle of Europe again.

"We couldn't have imagined these atrocities," she said, stunned at "how quickly history has an impact on the present."

The younger generation is now responsible for ensuring that the Holocaust never happens again on German soil by remembering, preserving and admonishing history.

How to make sure of this, said Dr.

Jan Mühlstein from the liberal Jewish community "Beth Shalom" in Munich that six million Jews, the Shoa victims of the German National Socialists, are not forgotten with public name readings.

After that, each name of the 128 Jewish patients buried in Gauting was read out by the high school students Kurt Hubert Gräfelfing, Feodor Lynen Planegg and Otto von Taube Gauting.

At the end of the war, they were driven through the Würm Valley from the Dachau concentration camp – whether Berko Aschenstein or Rosa Zac.

Feodor Lynen Planegg and Otto von Taube Gauting read out.

At the end of the war, they were driven through the Würm Valley from the Dachau concentration camp – whether Berko Aschenstein or Rosa Zac.

Feodor Lynen Planegg and Otto von Taube Gauting read out.

At the end of the war, they were driven through the Würm valley from the Dachau concentration camp – whether Berko Aschenstein or Rosa Zac.

The historian Dr.

According to Sabine Baumgartner from the Waldkirche Planegg, we owe the book “Survival and New Beginnings: DP-Hospital Gauting” to Walter Fürnrohr and his co-author Felix Muschialik.

The probably oldest memorial unveiled in 1947, which commemorates the six million victims of the Holocaust, is also located at the Gauting Jewish Cemetery.

It is shocking that a total of 30 young people who were only teenagers when the war began are "buried here" - and were not able to experience the longed-for peace after the Nazi terror, said Baumgartner.

But there is also hope in this great suffering: Mayel Fischmann, who was buried in Gauting on June 16, 1945, had a son who started a family in Israel.

Alma, Holocaust victim Fischmann's first great-granddaughter 'was born in August 2021'

knew Sabine Baumgartner.

So there is a name for every Gautinger tombstone – and the story of a “destroyed family”, which continues to exist.

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