DENK MAL AM ORT
Roman Stein, my godfather Dimitri's father, fled from Berlin to Paris in 1936, was captured by the Nazis in 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz.
Because of his Jewish ancestry, his son Dimitri Stein was denied his degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Berlin. A U.S. citizen since 1952, he had to wait until he was 88-years-old before finally being awarded his doctorate. On February 24 we celebrated his 97th birthday.
Dimitri R. Stein
This little girl, today Rahel R. Mann, survived Nazi persecution by hiding for over twelve months in a cellar with the help of a caretaker, who was herself married to a Nazi.
Renate Wolf
The house where resistance fighter Robert Uhrig lived until he was arrested by the Gestapo is next door to where I live.
Nine Jewish people, two of them small children, were taken from a 4th floor apartment (where my daughter Marie lives with her family today) before being deported and murdered.
Hermann Clajus, a social democrat and former director of the famous Strandbad Wannsee in Berlin, took his own life before the Gestapo could arrest him.
Hermann Clajus (c) GDW
All these loved ones we want to commemorate each year in the very neighborhoods of Berlin where they lived.
The days of remembrance take place on the weekend closest to the day World War II ended in Berlin. This year it's the weekend May 6/7.
Anyone can contribute: Individuals, house communities, anyone who wants to remember a particular person in a form of their own choosing. It can be anything from name reading, biographies, stories or historical descriptions to artistic illustrations, music, poetry or films.
I think there are no limits to creativity when it comes to remembrance.
The money you donate we will use to invite survivors who take part in the commemoration events. We also need money for leaflets, posters, and copies of archival documents.
Thank you so much!
I am so much looking forward to your questions and comments, and be sure, I will be more than pleased to answer all of them.
Love, Jani
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