Obj. ID: 50603
Modern Jewish Art Theresienstadt Memorial in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Memorial Name
Mindesmærke for Theresienstadt Foreningen
Who is Comemmorated?
198 Danish Jews deported to Theresienstadt from this place, on board of a German troop transport ship Wartheland .
Description
A granite upright round-headed stele bears a Danish inscription.
Inscription
Theresienstadt foreningen
har sat denne sten
til minde om
den 2. Oktober 1943,
hvor danske jøder
om bord på det
tyske troppetransportskib
„Wartheland“
slev deporteret til
Swinemunde og derfra
videre i kreaturvogne
til koncentrationslejren
Ttheresienstadt,
hvor de var fanger
118 måneder,
Med samme skib var ogsa
danske kommunister,
som blev sendt til
koncentrationslejren
Stutthof
Theresienstadt Foreningen
Oktober 2008
Doneret af fange xxv- 2 – 25
Tranlation: Theresienstadt Association / has placed this stone / in memory of / October 2, 1943, when / Danish Jews on board of the German / troop transport ship / Wartheland were / deported to Swinemunde / and from there in / cattle cars to the / Theresienstadt concentration camp / where they / were prisoners for 118 / months. On the same ship there were also / Danish Communists, / which were sent to / the Stutthof concentration camp.
Theresienstadt Association / October 2008 / Donated by prisoner xxv-2–25
Comissioned by
Theresienstadt Association
sub-set tree:
The memorial was inaugurated on the 65th anniversary of the deportation, on October 2, 2008.
Jewish Copenhagen - a map published by Jødisk Informationscenter and The Danish Jewish Museum (Copenhagen, c. 2020)
For a photograph, see https://2015.holocaustremembrance.com/member-countries/holocaust-education-remembrance-and-research-denmark
https://www.xn--horserd-stutthofforeningen-0wc.dk/?attachment_id=336