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© Katrin Kessler, Photographer: Kessler, Katrin, 2022

Who is Commemorated?

Jews killed in the Holocaust

Description

The memorial is an upright stele with the Star of David engraved on its top and a tree trunk is engraved at its bottom. The memorial is inscribed in Hebrew and German.

Inscriptions

The upper part of the stele cites from a kinah (liturgical poems recited on Tisha be-Av) [Schacter, 2008] inscribed in Hebrew and German:  

על חללי עמי דמי נצטנן

Mein Blut erstarrt ob
Der Erschlagenen meines
Volkes

Translation: My blood freezes for the slain of my people

Dem Andenken unserer
Brüder und Schwestern
Geweiht, die der National-
Sozialistischen Gewalt-
Herrschaft zum Opfer
fielen

Translation: Dedicated to the memory of our brothers and sisters who fell victim to the tyranny of the National Socialist

עם ישראל חי

TranslationThe people of Israel are alive [a quote from the Jewish religious song (nigun)]

Commissioned by

Sponsored by the city of Braunschweig; owned and maintained by the Jewish community of Braunschweig

Name/Title
Holocaust Memorial in the New Jewish Cemetery in Braunschweig | Unknown
Object Detail
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Date
1958
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Unknown
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Location
Germany | Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) | Braunschweig
| Helmstedter Str., part of the municipal cemetery
Site
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Natural stone with an inscription carved and set in color
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145 (on the left) and 210 (on the right) x 130 x 30 cm
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
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History/Provenance

The memorial to the murdered Jews was unveiled on November 16, 1958 (Memorial Day in Germany), in the presence of several honorees from church, politics, and the Jewish community, among them the State Rabbi of Württemberg-Hohenzollern Dr. Fritz Elieser Bloch, the first chairman of the Jewish community Salomon Cederbaum, and the secretary-general of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, Protestant Landesbischof Martin Erdmann and the Catholic Propst Frese, the social minister of Lower Saxony Dr. Diederichs as well as the active mayor Otto Bennemann of Braunschweig and his predecessor Ernst Böhme.

The memorial is situated vis-à-vis the cemetery chapel, to its northern side and accessible during the opening times of the Jewish cemetery, usually from 7 a.m. until 20 p.m.

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Author of description
Katrin Kessler | 2022
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Computer Reconstruction
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Negative/Photo. No.
A470441