"I'm the handsome one," explains an elderly gentleman, pointing to a 74-year-old team photo. Anyone who looks at Ernst Grube for the first time will notice his snow-white mustache, which now pulls up in a smile because of his own joke. A group of young people, laughing loudly, sits in a semicircle in front of him. The young players from FC Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt are in their heads, actually they are here in Nuremberg to play a U17...
The Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is honored by Federal President Steinmeier for her life's work. About one of the last contemporary witnesses, her commitment to combating anti-Semitism and a sentence from her mother that became her inner motivation. Of Verena Mayer"Try to make your life." That was the last sentence Margot Friedländer heard from her mother. She couldn't hear the sentence from her mother's mouth, the Gestapo had taken her and her son away. Neighbors gave her her mother's message...
She wanted to devote herself to the beautiful things in life, she had enrolled at the university for literature and languages. But then came the Nazis and the war, and in the end a very profane skill proved to be a blessing for Mimi Reinhardt: she had also learned shorthand. In the Płaszów concentration camp, where she was taken with other Jews from Kraków in 1943, Oskar Schindler made her his secretary. She typed Schindler's list, which saved her and...
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"No present exists without a memory of the past," says the website of the new Center for Remembrance Culture (ZE) in Regensburg. And the deliberately false interpretations of the past that the Russian President is shaping the present with are a common thread running through the opening ceremony of the ZE on Thursday. The opening speech was supposed to be Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), who apologized because of the war in Ukraine. Instead, the new Minister of Science, Markus...
Mickey Levy is the first speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, to address the plenary session. Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher will also give a speech. Follow the commemoration in the live stream.Today the Bundestag commemorates the victims of National Socialism. At the beginning of the session, Bundestag President Bärbel Bas spoke of January 27 as a "day of shame". Today the Bundestag commemorates "the millions of people who were persecuted, robbed, humiliated, enslaved, tortured and condemned to death". The...
Margot Friedlander was 100 years old a few weeks ago become. But she absolutely wanted to make this visit. To go to the place where 15 men decided to kill her. This murderous plan didn't work out, not in her case. And the man who had instigated it was himself dead less than five months later: the war criminal Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office and deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, who had invited to...
