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A 45 y.o. architect living in the building, Simon Lütgemeyer, researched the fates of 83 Jews who were residents or owners during the Holocaust until they were deported & murdered or driven into exile. 
Then he had a plaque installed with the former residents' names next to silent doorbells, along with a commemoration of their fates in German & Hebrew. A QR code at the bottom leads you to their stories
When the plaque was inaugurated in May, about 75 people turned up including survivors, descendants & interested Berliners. Peter Gossels, 85, of Wayland, Mass. was one of them.
He lived in the building with his mother Charlotte, who sent him and his brother Werner to a school in France in 1939. They would never see her again.
These were Peter Gossels's thoughts on returning to Berlin 80 years on, in 2019.
See the top of this thread for the website telling all the individual stories. It is a wormhole you might find difficult to emerge from. Meanwhile, for Berliners, you can find the exhibition vor Ort til Wednesday (Käthe-Niederkirchner-Straße 35)
Original top of thread: Germany's culture of Holocaust remembrance is evolving for the 21st century as the last survivors leave us. Today I went to a building in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg that shows how grassroots activism & a lil tech can make a huge impact. kaethe35.de
(Correction: Peter Gossels is now 88, his brother Werner is 85.)
Here is the link to the silent doorbells, in English and German: kaethe35.de/klingel
