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 Previous actions, events, and so on: minimieren
  • Information-events on a regular base: movie-, dissertation- and discussion-evenings
  • Annual commemoration on the 8th of November (Night of broken glass) and 27th of January (Holocaust commemoration-day)
  • Worldwide search for Jewish emigrants, recreation and maintenance of written, telephonic and face-to-face contacts with former Jewish citizens
  • Extensive research activities on the history of Jewish communities in Volkmarsen and the surrounding areas

  • Interviews with contemporary witnesses, detecting, collecting and working up personal documents and notes
  • Advice and assistance of needy Jewish emigrants abroad
  • Information journeys to memorial places, for example to Bergen-Belsen, Wewelsburg, Theresienstadt, Breitenau, Holland, Belgium, Czechia, Poland
  • Initiative and suggestion to the appellation of streets, places and schools in the North-Hessian cities after ancient Jewish inhabitants
  • Collaboration by the creation of the video-documentary film "The escape of the children" (About the escape of Jewish children in 1939 to England)
  • Attendance at the assembly of the memorial avenue in Sobibor/Poland, disposition of memorial stones, tree growing, documentation
  • Construction of an 18 meters long memorial wall at the Jewish cemetery in Volkmarsen to remind to the murdered Jews from Volkmarsen
  • Assembly and presentation of our permanent exhibition "German-Jewish life in our region during the centuries"

An exceptionally main focus in our society's work: Organisation, development and financing of meeting weeks with ancient Jewish citizens from the region, who live in the USA, Israel and Australia today (in the years 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006)


      

 Further activities planned: minimieren
  • Active cooperation with the advancement of the memorial avenue in Sobibor/Poland
  • Continuation research work and creation of a documentation about the history of the Jewish community in Volkmarsen
  • Chronicle and work on interviews
  • Reconditioning and announcement of traced materials
  • Maintenance of contacts with Jewish emigrant families and other contemporary witnesses
  • Regular events with movie- and dissertation evenings, information journeys

      

 Honours

The present work of our society was honoured several times on local and nationwide area:

In spring 1998 our society was honoured with the "Paul-Dierichs-Preis" in appreciation of  its remuneration around the German Jewish communication by the creatorship of the Paul- Dierichs beneficience in Kassel.

In summer 2002 we got the culture award of the administrative district Waldeck-Frankenberg for our remunerations around the refurbishment of the homeland history with view on the former Jewish citizens.

In spring 2004 we were assigned with the award for "engagement and moral courage" by the federal government and the alliance for democracy and tolerance for our inventive and effective example of civil engagement.


      

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