Podiumsdiskussion zu einem möglichen Welterbezentrum

Ein Zentrum für das mittelalterliche Jüdische Erfurt wird ganz unabhängig von der Verleihung des Titels benötigt. Abgesehen von einer besseren Besucherbetreuung und –verteilung ist ein koscheres Restaurant schon lang ein Desiderat, auch die Jüdische Landesgemeinde soll Ihren Platz mit einem neuen Gemeindezentrum wieder mitten in der Stadt finden. In einer Podiumsdiskussion am 6. September 19.30 Uhr im Festsaal des Rathauses sprechen darüber: Der Amtsleiter für Stadtentwicklung und Stadtplanung Sönke Bohm, der Leiter der Unteren Denkmalschutzbehörde Dr. Mark Escherich, die Professoren Dipl. Ing. Roland Poppensieker (Berliner Hochschule für Technik), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Tuczek (Fachhochschule Erfurt), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schramm, Vorsitzender der Jüdischen Landesgemeinde. Studenten der Berliner Hochschule und der FH Erfurt haben Entwürfe zu einem Zentrum angefertigt, die im Rahmen der Denkmaltage in einem Zelt auf dem Parkplatz hinter dem Rathaus zu sehen sind.

A Testimony of Survival: A Meeting with Bernard Offen, a Concentration Camp Survivor
A series of events*
European Days of Jewish Culture 2023**

Thursdays, September 7th, September 28th, and October 12th at 6pm

We would like to invite you to unique meetings with Bernard Offen, a true hero and a Holocaust Survivor. The meetings will be a chance to get to know the life story of Mr. Offen, but also to understand the deep human strength and resilience in the most difficult circumstances.

During the meetings Mr. Bernard Offen will share his personal story from the times, when he was a little boy living in the district of Podgórze and the difficult time he had to survive during the Second World War.

A talk about important but unjustly neglected Czech-German-Jewish personalities.

The event is dedicated to the memory of the Jewish community in Senec. It is a combination of lecture presenting family histories, oral history interviews and walk around the town connected to the authentic places of family stories – the former dwellings. Learn about the daily life of the community before, during and after the Holocaust. The team of three experts has dedicated years of research of the local Jewish history and are the authors of the prepared permanent exhibition in the restored synagogue in Senec. The event takes place two days after the national Holocaust memorial day (September 8), when the names of Jewish families will be publicly read during the ceremony on the town square in front of the synagogue.

Mihael Toš, author of the Kein Kampf project, will present and describe the remains of the Jewish cultural heritage in Slovenia on an interactive map. Events will take place on 4 and 18 September 2023 in Hotel Mitra.

To what extent are people of today's generation united by a violent past and the memory of that past? What forms of subjectivity emerge through different memories of atrocities and what forms of collective action facilitate or hinder these memories?

Conference in Catalan.
Free entrance until full capacity.

Na predavanju bo predstavljena družinska zgodba znane murskosoboške tiskarske družine Hahn vse od naselitve v Prekmurju do holokavsta. Predavatelja bosta zgodovinar Dejan Süč in domoznanec Pokrajinske in študijske knjižnice Murska Sobota dr. Albert Halász.

Renowned Slovenian literary and film maker and photographer Dušan Šarotar is the author of numerous books of prose, poetry and essays, as well as more than twenty scripts for documentaries and short feature films. The central theme of his novels, poetry and films is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Murska Sobota and more widely in Prekmurje. On April 26, 1944, the Nazis and Hungarian fascists deported almost the entire Jewish community from Prekmurje to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Among the handful who survived the war was Šarotar's grandfather Franc Schwartz, "who never spoke about it". His story is also the common thread of Šarotar's novels Billiards in Dobray and Zvezdna karta, and at the forefront of the writer's interest are also memory, sadness, feeling and the human soul.

In the lecture, Maja Kutin, a leading collaborator in the project of cataloging the book heritage of the pre-war Slovenian community in Prekmurje, will present the stories behind the selected treasures of prayer books and ritual books. Members of the local Jewish community used the Hebrew Bible and the Torah with references from the former rabbis of Murska Sobota to swear an oath before the Murska Sobota court, and the signatures in mourning prayer books for the dead reveal the stories of families that influenced the economic and social development of Prekmurje. The valuable collection is kept in the Provincial and Study Library of Murska Sobota.

(Due to the limited number of places, prior registration with name and surname is mandatory by September 18, 2023 at office@judovskozdruzenje.si.)