I wanted to share this story from my home town Gelsenkirchen:
This advertisement mural for suits and clothes was found after the building next to it had been torn down this year.
It is from a clothing shop run by the Jewish family Alexander.
#Novemberpogrome
This advertisement mural for suits and clothes was found after the building next to it had been torn down this year.
It is from a clothing shop run by the Jewish family Alexander.
#Novemberpogrome
In the night of the November pogroms in 1938, their shop was attacked. The nephew of the owners - who is still alive - remembers his uncle trying to defend the shop after the windows had been broken. He was ten at the time.
Later, he was brought to London in a “Kindertransport”. The owners‘ family had to flee to the US after their property had been aryanised and they had been attacked.
Other members of the family died in the Holocaust.
Other members of the family died in the Holocaust.
Two things that are most important for me:
1. Their story had largely been forgotten. In quite a literal sense “covered up”. But we have to learn these stories. Because they matter and tell us to remember what it meant. Probably often better than numbers or simple facts could.
1. Their story had largely been forgotten. In quite a literal sense “covered up”. But we have to learn these stories. Because they matter and tell us to remember what it meant. Probably often better than numbers or simple facts could.
2. Don’t believe the people who say “The Germans couldn’t have known”. They could. It was happening right in front of their eyes. This day - the 9th November - makes that clear.
We can never stand by and watch something like this happen again.
NEVER AGAIN.
We can never stand by and watch something like this happen again.
NEVER AGAIN.
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