Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Australian Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (1999) 117-130
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
Abstract:
On 15 December 1991, exactly 50 years after the first deportation train left Hannover taking its Jews to ghettos and camps in the East, a group of Hannover citizens, mainly Christian, mooted the idea of erecting a memorial naming the victims. The memorial, designed by Michelangelo Pisteletto from Torino, was unveiled on 10 October 1994. Built of sandstone, its main feature is a broken square; around the base are inscribed the names of the 1,882 Hannover Jews who died in the death camps. Focuses on the history of the Hannover Jewish community during the Nazi regime, describing the rise of racial antisemitism in pre-Nazi Germany, the Nazi persecution of Jews, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, and the deportations.
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