Guided City Tour with Historian Trille Schünke-Bettinger
On the Sunday before the anniversary of the November pogroms, historian Trille Schünke-Bettinger leads a tour through Moabit. Six stops illustrate the lives of women during the Nazi era: the places where they lived, worked or were active, their forms of resistance, and the traces of persecution.
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In Berlin-Moabit erinnert das Mahnmal Levetzowstraße an die Deportation von Jüdinnen und Juden.
The assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a seventeen-year-old Polish Jew, whose parents had previously been expelled, served as a pretext for the Nazis: on the night of 9–10 November 1938, the SA and SS, supported by units of the Hitler Youth and sections of the population, raided Jewish shops, private homes and places of worship. Many citizens took part; others stood by; a few intervened to defend or help.
Over 1,000 synagogues were burnt down or destroyed, and over 30,000 people were arrested. From then on, it became clear to the public that the Nazis were no longer confining themselves to anti-Jewish legislation, but did not shy away from murder, torture and arbitrary persecution either.
Every year, the Mitte District Office in Berlin and the Mitte District Council, together with schools from the district, organise commemorative events featuring wreath-laying ceremonies, including at the Levetzowstraße Memorial. This is also where the guided tour ends: at the memorial to the former synagogue, which served as an assembly point for the deportation of Berlin’s Jewish men and women.
The tour begins at the Mitte Museum’s branch in Tiergarten Town Hall. The meeting point is the forecourt of Tiergarten Town Hall, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin.
- Participation is free of charge.
- Booking is required: please email trille@frauen-im-widerstand.de.
IN GERMAN
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