Rundbrief 8/2022

December 1941, March 1942, and July 1942. These dates mark fundamental losses and equally fundamental crimes. In December 1941, Detmold Jews were deported to Riga; in March of the following year, more people were forced onto the transport to Warsaw, "to the East"; and in July 1942, mainly the elderly were forced to leave their crumbling homes for Theresienstadt.
Within about half a year, the Jewish people of Detmold had, as it would later be called, "disappeared." They were "gone."
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of these deportations, a city tour in cooperation with the Detmold City Archives with Gudrun Mitschke-Buchholz will take place on Sunday, August 28, 2022 at 11 am. Please note: Meeting point for this tour is at Hermannstraße 29! The focus is mainly on the people who were affected by the deportations, but also on institutions that were responsible for carrying out the deportation to death.

The tour lasts about 1 ½ - 2 hours, the cost is 5 € per person, reduced 2 € per person

Juna Grossmann lives and works in Berlin. She will talk about her stirring experiences with anti-Semitic attitudes and encounters. Topics are: Jewish Berlin, social media in museums, visitor services in museums, Jews and Jewish women in Germany, Judaism for "beginners".

Ms. Grossmann studied special education and has been working for memorial sites and museums for many years. As a research assistant, for example, she created the exhibition "Red Army Women Prisoners of War in the Concentration Camp. Soviet Military Physicians in Ravensbrück".

Since 2009, she has managed the exhibition office of a Berlin museum. In addition, she is a consultant for social media appearances for memorials and cultural institutions. Since 2008, Juna Grossmann has been running the blog irgendwiejuedisch.com and volunteering at rentajew.org.

Admission free.
As there is limited space in the Garden Room at Münsterberg House, please register your attendance: Mail: Gfcjz-Lippe@t-online.de; Tel. (AB): 05231 87 88 562

The book is not yet available as TB and costs 24,-- € new.

New members are always welcome in the reading circle, but they should register by mail to the society (gfcjz-lippe@t-online.der).

The reading circle is organized by Ulrike Blanke-Wiesekopsieker

In preparation for the study trip to Eisenach, but also open to all interested, we invite you to the workshop in the garden hall of Haus Münsterberg.

On May 6, 1939, with a ceremony at the Wartburg in Eisenach, the "Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life" was founded on the basis of a resolution of eleven Protestant regional churches. The institute was closely linked to the ideology and organization of the "Church Movement of German Christians," which originated in Thuringia. The goal of this church-political movement was to adapt the Christian faith and the institution of the church to the dictates of the National Socialist worldview. The "research work" of the church "Entjudungsinstitut" served to legitimize the exclusion and persecution policy of the National Socialist race ideology, to purge the Protestant church of all alleged Jewish influences.

Our Protestant chairman Dr. Oliver Arnhold will lead this workshop as an expert. His book "'Entjudung' von Theologie und Kirche. The Eisenach 'Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life' 1939-1945" was published in 2020.

Admission free.
As there is limited space in the Garden Hall of Münsterberg House, please register your attendance: Mail: Gfcjz-Lippe@t-online.de; Tel. (AB): 05231 87 88 562

"I have never met a Jew": This is a phrase most Jews have heard before. 

On the occasion of the anniversary "1700 Years of Jews in Germany", actor and Spiegel bestselling author Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg talks about the diversity of Jewish life in Germany. 

About Dagmar, who, behind the back of her Jewish father, of all things applies for the police service; about Marina, who came to Germany from the former USSR and only here is confronted with the religious past of her family; and about David, the jazz musician from New York, who discovers in Berlin the "most Jewish city" in Germany. There is the Jewish Bundeswehr doctor who consciously wears the kippa even when on duty, and the scientific employee at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center who also derives his Jewish faith from mathematics, and the stories are told of people who converted to Judaism of their own free will. 

All these stories of everyday life of Jews living in Germany, their stories and experiences, their hopes and the threats of rising anti-Semitism are interwoven by the author with explanations of symbols, faith practice and history.

Gerhard Haase-Hindenberg is a trained actor who appeared, among other things, as the underworld type Stullen-Paul in Dieter Wedel's six-parter "König von St. Pauli" and stood in front of the camera as Reichsfeldmarschall Göring alongside Tom Cruise in the Hollywood film "Operation Valkyrie." In addition, he worked for many years as a writer for television and radio formats and as a publicist (including for Die Welt / Welt am Sonntag, Die ZEIT and daily newspapers). He has also been writing for the Jüdische Allgemeine for several years. Haase-Hindenberg has written more than ten narrative nonfiction books, including "Der Mann, der die Mauer öffnete," the literary model for the award-winning TV film "Bornholmer Straße".

Admission free.
As there is limited space in the Garden Hall of Münsterberg House, please register your attendance: Mail: Gfcjz-Lippe@t-online.de; Tel. (AB): 05231 87 88 562

The Kuratorium Erinnern Forschen Gedenken e.V. invites you to the memorial event for the victims of infanticide and euthanasia in the Nazi era.

After a welcome by Dr. med. Wolf Müller (Kuratorium Erinnern Forschen Gedenken e.V.), Jürgen Müller (District Administrator of the Herford district) will also speak the words of remembrance on behalf of the city of Herford. This will be followed by short lectures by Helga Kohne and Dr. med. Wolf Müller on the subject of "Living blood - mass murder of children".

Further information is available here: Memorial Event Euthanasia and Murder of the Sick Herford

Kuratorium Erinnern Forschen Gedenken e.V.

The exhibition as part of the Jubilee Year 1700 Years of Jewish Life in Germany 2021 is now available for loan to schools and other institutions after the conclusion of the exhibition at the Zellentrakt Memorial.

The design of the exhibition takes the "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Holocaust Memorial for short" in Berlin as its model. Gray steles symbolize the loss for Germany and the Herford area through the Holocaust. In the exhibition, however, the focus is not on the times of persecution and extermination, but rather on the fragile "normality" and everyday life of the Jews in the Herford area. Cultural and economic heights and losses are presented and the contribution of the Jews to the development of society and economy is shown. The resurgence after 1945 and the current situation of the Jewish community in the Herford area are at the end of the exhibition. Current developments of anti-Semitism in Germany and the Herford area form a separate part.

Further information about the exhibition and lending is available here: Flyer