As of: January 20, 2024, 5:05 p.m
By: Peter Herrmann
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Invited to the New Year's reception: bathhouse chairwoman Sybille Krafft and vice-chairman Jonathan Coenen.
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Waldram – Despite many awards and over 16,000 visitors so far, there is still no institutional funding for the Badehaus memorial site, which opened in 2018.
The voluntary commitment of young people is now to be rewarded with sponsorships for scholarships.
“We will continue undeterred,” promised Vice Chairman Jonathan Coenen at the New Year’s reception.
He proudly referred to the around 55,000 volunteer hours worked by the bathhouse association, which has existed for twelve years.
With memorial sponsorships, this work should continue to be kept at a high level.
“We are looking for sponsors who can provide a young person with a bathhouse scholarship for three, six or twelve months in the form of a earmarked donation to the association,” explained Krafft.
“A sensible investment”
The amount of money varies depending on the duration between 2,000 and 8,000 euros.
“It is a sensible investment in the future of remembrance work if committed young people are paid for a few of their working hours,” said the historian with a doctorate.
Event program
The result of this commitment was reflected in the presentation of the new event program, which began with a film screening in January.
After the youth evening “(Dis) Placed” (February 25th), organized in cooperation with the Ickinger Rainer-Maria-Rilke-Gymnasium, the exhibition opens on International Women's Day (March 8th).
“We lived in an oasis of peace” on the history of the Jewish girls’ school in Wolfratshausen.
On April 21, Holocaust survivor Eva Runde explains the “psychology of remembering.”
After the artistic intervention “Entanglements” by Susanne Hanus from Penzberg on May 5th, history professor Kevin Ostoyich will give a lecture on “Jews from Shanghai in Föhrenwald” on June 8th.
From June 29th to 30th, the bathhouse association even invites you to cross the Alps.
The “Alpine Peace Crossing” from Krimml (Austria) to Kasern in South Tyrol commemorates the arduous march that Jewish men, women and children undertook in 1947 to reach a ship in Genoa to what was then Palestine.
Before the summer break, the club members give a “look into the bathhouse” on July 13th and invite everyone to the neighborhood festival on Kolpingplatz after the annual general meeting.
The event year ends with the meeting evening “Ukrainian Connections” (September 22nd), the vernissage of the special exhibition “Resistance Through Their Eyes” (October 13th), a bunker tour in Geretsried (November 17th) and the artistic intervention “Transit” by Matthias Wohlgenannt .
The teacher, who lives in Waldram, teaches art at the Geretsried high school.