PHOTO:
© MAK/Stefan Hößl
Stolpersteine. Rund um die Synagoge Roonstraße
In the organizer's words:
With his "Stumbling Stones" campaign, the artist Gunter Demnig commemorates people who fell victim to the terror of the National Socialists. This outstanding memorial of the decentralized kind has been growing in many countries and places since 1996 - not least in Cologne. The journalist Petra Pluwatsch has traced some exemplary fates. She tells the story in her two books "Verfolgt, aber nicht vergessen - Die Geschichte hinter den Stolpersteinen" (2023) and "Auf der Spur der Stolpersteine. Eleven Paths of Remembrance through Cologne", which was recently published by Metropol Verlag.
On the one hand, it is about keeping the memory of the victims alive. On the other hand, there seems to be a new urgency to warn against the dangers of anti-Semitism and racism, exclusion and the restriction of freedom. After a brief introduction, the author takes us on a short tour of selected "Stumbling Stones" around the Roonstraße synagogue, presenting some of the lives of the victims - from their successful escape to the USA to their deportation to the extermination camps in Eastern Europe. Fundamental aspects of Nazi persecution are explained.
In cooperation with the Melanchthon Academy and the school department of the Cologne and Region Protestant Church.
Petra Pluwatsch
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Thu, 25.06. 17.30-19.45 (3 UStd)
This course costs 5,00€.
No. 2102H
Bookcase on the Rathenauplatz
Location
Rathenauplatz
Rathenauplatz
50674 Köln
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