On the eve of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, celebrated on January 27, the German Bundestag opened the exhibition “16 objects – 70 years of Yad Vashem”. , who once lived in Germany. The items were donated by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Complex, which celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2023. The exhibition runs at the Paul-Löbe House until 17 February.
“People thought that they were not in danger. They were Germans,” Lore Mayerfeld recalled at the opening of the exhibition in the Bundestag, which took place on January 24. In 1941, together with her family, she managed to catch one of the last flights from Portugal to the United States, where the father of the family was already waiting for them. In parting, the grandmother gave her four-year-old granddaughter a doll. The girl named her Inge. A few decades later, this doll became an exhibit of the exhibition, which recalls the horrors and suffering during the days of National Socialism.
A Hanukkah lamp, a professor’s stethoscope, a suitcase in which a woman deported to the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt put her belongings… Items could remain invisible elements of everyday life, but they represent destroyed lives and twisted destinies.
The exhibits come from different parts of Germany – one from each of the 16 federal states. As part of the exhibition, they return to Germany for the first time. The creators of the exhibition want to show that every place in the country lost part of its identity during the Holocaust. To visit the exhibition, you must first register.
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