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The students of the Max-Mannheimer-Gymnasium commemorated the six-year-old boy Lorenz D., who was murdered by the National Socialists, with a film.
© District Office Ebersberg
Last Friday, the first commemoration ceremony for the victims of National Socialism in the Ebersberg district took place in the Grafinger town hall
District - For the first time, the Ebersberg district commemorated the victims of National Socialism with its own central memorial ceremony.
Around 100 people gathered in the Grafinger town hall, including district and city councilors, mayors, heads of schools and authorities as well as interested citizens and the district community guardians.
In his speech, District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß said: “On this day, we not only remember the numerous victims of this inhumane rule, but we also think of the descendants of the murdered and survivors who are still confronted with the traumas of the past today.” History is currently and it concerns us all, said the district administrator.
“Especially recently, a shift to the right among the population has become visible.
It seems as if we have not learned from the past.
On the other hand, in recent days we have also seen thousands of people taking to the streets against xenophobia and anti-Semitism.
That's encouraging.
We must all work every day to ensure that hate does not win, so that our children and grandchildren wake up in a world where every human life is valued equally.”
We have been seeing for a few days that people are taking to the streets against xenophobia, says District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß.
“That’s encouraging.” © District Office Ebersberg
The memorial day was initiated by the chairman of the historical association in the Ebersberg district, Bernhard Schäfer.
He gave an overview of people who were victims here in the district, for example because of their political or religious views or because of their disabilities.
He also remembered the “subhumans” so-called by the Nazis who suffered forced labor, oppression and violence, or the concentration camp prisoners who were brought from Dachau to the district in order, among other things, to clear bombed areas.
Schäfer emphasized that you don't want a rigid, general ritual that repeats itself every year.
They want to give the day of remembrance a face with individual fates.
We all have to work every day to ensure that hate doesn’t win.”
District Administrator Robert Niedergesäß
This is what the students from the Max-Mannheimer-Gymnasium Grafing did.
You have filmed the fate of the boy Lorenz D. from Grafing in a very moving way.
As a six-year-old child, he was taken to the sanatorium and nursing home in Haar because of alleged feeble-mindedness and was murdered there by the medical staff.
Officially, the boy died of “pneumonia” four months before the end of the war.
In the future, there will be such a memorial event in the district every year, at which a different group of victims will be remembered.
The event was musically accompanied by the pianist Katharina Notters and the cellists Aulis Dürr and Rebecca Brill (also students at the Max-Mannheimer-Gymnasium).
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