Holocaust remembrance day: places that remind and admonish

Whether Buchenwald, Dachau, Sachsenhausen – this Sunday (27.1.2019) will draw the Holocaust day of remembrance, many guests in the German Nazi memorials. The Holocaust memorial in Berlin, it’s rather quiet.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Holocaust Memorial

    A huge field of Stelae in the centre of the German capital, designed by New York architect Peter Eisenmann. Almost 3000 Stone blocks reminiscent of the six million Jewish people from all over Europe who were murdered by the national socialists.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Stumbling blocks

    Very small, 10 by 10 centimeter panels of this Brass. They are found everywhere on the sidewalks in Berlin. The stumbling blocks are reminiscent of the people who lived in the adjacent houses before they were deported by the national socialists. In total, there are more than 7000 of these Stolpersteine in Berlin.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    House of the Wannsee-conference

    20. In January of 1942 met in this Villa on the Wannsee, 15 high-ranking Nazi officials to discuss the systematic murder of the European Jews; they called it “the final solution of the Jewish question”. Today, the house is a memorial. You informed about the unimaginable Dimension of the genocide that has been decided.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    The Memorial Track 17

    White roses at the Gleis 17 at Grunewald train station, in memory of the over 50,000 Berlin Jews who were sent from here to the death. 186 steel plates, date, destination, and number of deportees are noted. The first train ran on 18. October 1941 in the Ghetto of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), the last on 5. January 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Workshop For The Blind Otto Weidt

    The Hackesche Höfe in Berlin Mitte today in each guide, a backyard maze, in which many Jewish people lived and worked. For example, in the brush factory of the German companies Otto Weidt. He was in the Nazi time, many blind and deaf Jews and saved from Deportation and death. The workshop for the Blind, is today a Museum.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Fashion Center Hausvogteiplatz

    Here is the heart of the fashion metropolis of Berlin beat once. A memorable character from Mirrors is reminiscent of the Jewish fashion designers and stylists, which justified the hausvogteiplatz clothes for the whole of Europe. The Nazis expropriated Jewish owners and handed over to the fashion houses of statutory employees. In the Second world war, the fashion center of Berlin was destroyed irretrievably.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Memorial on Koppenplatz

    Prior to the Holocaust, from 173,000 Jews lived in Berlin, in 1945, there were only 9000. The monument “The abandoned room” is located in the residential area of Koppenplatz. It is reminiscent of the Jewish citizens who were taken without warning from their homes and never returned.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Jewish Museum

    The architect Daniel Libeskind has opted for a dramatic architecture, viewed From above, the building looks like a broken star of David. The Jewish Museum is one of the most visited museums in Berlin, there is an Overview of the changing German-Jewish history.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Jewish Cemetery Weißensee

    In Berlin, there are eight preserved Jewish cemeteries, the largest of them is located in the city district of Weissensee. With over 115,000 graves, it is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Many Jewish refugees hid during the Nazi-time on the difficult terrain. Already on 11. In may 1945, three days after the liberation, it was here again the first Jewish worship service.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    New Synagogue

    In 1866, the New synagogue was inaugurated in the Oranienburger Straße for the first Time; it was considered the largest and most splendid in Germany. In the Second world war it burned down. In 1995, the reconstructed synagogue was inaugurated for a second Time. Since then, the 50-Meter-high Golden dome shapes the Silhouette of Berlin.

    Author: Kerstin Schmidt


  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Holocaust Memorial

    A huge field of Stelae in the centre of the German capital, designed by New York architect Peter Eisenmann. Almost 3000 Stone blocks reminiscent of the six million Jewish people from all over Europe who were murdered by the national socialists.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Stumbling blocks

    Very small, 10 by 10 centimeter panels of this Brass. They are found everywhere on the sidewalks in Berlin. The stumbling blocks are reminiscent of the people who lived in the adjacent houses before they were deported by the national socialists. In total, there are more than 7000 of these Stolpersteine in Berlin.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    House of the Wannsee-conference

    20. In January of 1942 met in this Villa on the Wannsee, 15 high-ranking Nazi officials to discuss the systematic murder of the European Jews; they called it “the final solution of the Jewish question”. Today, the house is a memorial. You informed about the unimaginable Dimension of the genocide that has been decided.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    The Memorial Track 17

    White roses at the Gleis 17 at Grunewald train station, in memory of the over 50,000 Berlin Jews who were sent from here to the death. 186 steel plates, date, destination, and number of deportees are noted. The first train ran on 18. October 1941 in the Ghetto of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), the last on 5. January 1945 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Workshop For The Blind Otto Weidt

    The Hackesche Höfe in Berlin Mitte today in each guide, a backyard maze, in which many Jewish people lived and worked. For example, in the brush factory of the German companies Otto Weidt. He was in the Nazi time, many blind and deaf Jews and saved from Deportation and death. The workshop for the Blind, is today a Museum.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Fashion Center Hausvogteiplatz

    Here is the heart of the fashion metropolis of Berlin beat once. A memorable character from Mirrors is reminiscent of the Jewish fashion designers and stylists, which justified the hausvogteiplatz clothes for the whole of Europe. The Nazis expropriated Jewish owners and handed over to the fashion houses of statutory employees. In the Second world war, the fashion center of Berlin was destroyed irretrievably.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Memorial on Koppenplatz

    Prior to the Holocaust, from 173,000 Jews lived in Berlin, in 1945, there were only 9000. The monument “The abandoned room” is located in the residential area of Koppenplatz. It is reminiscent of the Jewish citizens who were taken without warning from their homes and never returned.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Jewish Museum

    The architect Daniel Libeskind has opted for a dramatic architecture, viewed From above, the building looks like a broken star of David. The Jewish Museum is one of the most visited museums in Berlin, there is an Overview of the changing German-Jewish history.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    Jewish Cemetery Weißensee

    In Berlin, there are eight preserved Jewish cemeteries, the largest of them is located in the city district of Weissensee. With over 115,000 graves, it is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Many Jewish refugees hid during the Nazi-time on the difficult terrain. Already on 11. In may 1945, three days after the liberation, it was here again the first Jewish worship service.

  • Jewish memorial places in Berlin

    New Synagogue

    In 1866, the New synagogue was inaugurated in the Oranienburger Straße for the first Time; it was considered the largest and most splendid in Germany. In the Second world war it burned down. In 1995, the reconstructed synagogue was inaugurated for a second Time. Since then, the 50-Meter-high Golden dome shapes the Silhouette of Berlin.

    Author: Kerstin Schmidt


The Holocaust memorial in Berlin-Mitte, is open on Sunday like every other day for the visitors from all over the world. Obvious, it stands for the suffering of the six million Jewish people were murdered by the national socialists.

The memory on the hour, the Foundation memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe is taking place but at a smaller memorial: the memorial for the murdered Sinti and Roma, which is located in the immediate vicinity, between the Reichstag building and the Brandenburg gate. At the monument for the Homosexuals persecuted under national socialism in the Tiergarten, there is also a silent tribute.

Memorial to the Homosexuals persecuted under national socialism in Berlin

Every year on may 27. January to the millions of victims of the Nazi reign of terror between 1933 and 1945 is remembered. With memorial concerts, Meetings, or tours in memorials. It is the day that the largest concentration camps of the Nazis, Auschwitz in what was then German-occupied Poland, Soviet troops liberated.

In 2005, the UN has declared a General Assembly this day to the worldwide Holocaust remembrance day. In Germany, the date is celebrated since 1996, solemnly.

Interest in Mahnorten unbroken

Today in Germany there are around 300 memorials, memorial stones or plaques at the authentic places of the Holocaust. The former concentration camp have visited in the past year, more than 2.5 million guests. Almost all the facilities showed to 2018, with stable figures or increasing visitor.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    House of the Wannsee conference

    The Villa Marlier at Berlin Wannsee is considered to be one of the planning centers of the Holocaust. On 20.1.1942 15 members of the government of the Reich and of the SS met to discuss the approach to the genocide of the Jews vote. Since 1992, the memorial and educational site “house of the Wannsee conference” in the rooms of the Villa.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    The Dachau concentration camp

    One of the first camps during the Nazi era, was built in Dachau, near Munich. Already a few weeks after Hitler’s seizure were incarcerated mainly political opponents of the SS harassed and killed. Dachau served as a model for the subsequent concentration camps in the dominion of the Nazis.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    The Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds

    The Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg from 1933 to the beginning of the Second world war, is home to the largest Nazi propaganda events. On the eleven-square-kilometre Area, up to the annual party conference, instead of Asses, with up to 200,000 people.


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    Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in lower Saxony, Germany, served first as a prisoner of war camp. In the last years of the war here, especially ill prisoners were housed in other Camps. The majority was deliberately killed or died as a result of disease. Of the 50,000 deaths of the Jewish girl Anne Frank, the gained through her posthumously published diaries global awareness.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    Buchenwald concentration camp

    Buchenwald, near the Thuringian town of Weimar was one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. From 1937 to April 1945, the Nazis deported some 270,000 people from all over Europe here, and murdered a total of 64,000 of them.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    German Resistance Memorial Center

    In the Berlin bendler block, the centre of the military resistance against Adolf Hitler. A group of military officers to Colonel count von Stauffenberg, failed on 20. To kill July 1944 attempt of Hitler. Some of the Participants were still shot in the same night, in the bendler block. The German resistance memorial center remembers where it is today.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    Killing Institution Hadamar

    In the Hessian Hadamar 1941 people were killed with mental illnesses and disabilities. By the Nazis for “unworthy of life”, explains, killed almost 15,000 people by toxic injections and Gas. In total, around 70,000 people were the so-called “euthanasia”program for the victims. The rooms of the former killing memorial Institute today.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    Holocaust Memorial

    As the Central memorial in Germany, the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. In the immediate vicinity of the Brandenburg gate, it was on 10. May 2005 inaugurated. The architect Peter Eisenman created a field of 2711 concrete stelae of different sizes. It is for visitors to walk on. An underground memorial exhibition complements the complex.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    Monument to the persecuted Homosexuals

    The formal language of the Holocaust memorial the memorial is modeled for the Homosexuals persecuted under national socialism. It was on 27. May 2008 in Berlin’s Tiergarten Park was inaugurated. A glazed Opening with a view of the Interior, in which a movie is shown kissing men’s and women’s pairs in an endless loop.


  • Memorials of the Nazi terror

    Memorial to the murdered Sinti and Roma

    Opposite the Reichstag building in Berlin, a garden plant reminds since 2012 to 500,000 in the NS-time Sinti and Roma murdered. On the edge of the fountain is available in English, German and Romanes to read the poem “Auschwitz” by Santino Spinelli: “Eingefallenes face/ dead eyes/ cold lips/ silence/ of a torn heart/ without breath/ without words/ no tears”.


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    Stumbling blocks

    The German artist Gunter Demnig began in the 1990s, a project for the reprocessing of the Holocaust: in Front of the former homes of the victims, he left with plates of brass fastened stones on which the names and circumstances of death are engraved. Over 45,000 memorial stones in Germany and 17 other European countries are, so far, the memorial part of the world’s largest decentralized Holocaust.


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    NS-documentation center in Munich

    At the age of 70. Anniversary of the liberation of Munich by the national socialists on 30. April 2015, opened at a historic site a new documentation centre. Where in the past the “Brown house” – the party headquarters of the NSDAP, stand, stands now a white cube. In addition, in the “Führerbau” Hitler had his office. To Berlin and Nuremberg, Munich, illuminate the darkest Chapter of its history.

    Author: Ille, Simon


The largest former concentration camp in Germany, also for many tourists from all over the world an important goal. In particular, Dachau, near Munich, emanating from 900,000 visitors in 2018 and a record number of visitors. Also, the memorial site of Sachsenhausen, North of Berlin, reports an increase of over 700,000 visitors. The former concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, recorded with 500,000 visitors a strong increase in that the device is coming, according to a spokesman, in the meantime, to the limit of their capacity.

AfD-politician undesirable

In the run-up to Holocaust memorial day, the memorial of Buchenwald, stated that the official wreath-laying ceremony today, Friday (25.1.19) politicians of the Thuringian AfD are undesirable. The memorial is the basis of the step in order that the group is still not your right wing politicians, Björn Höcke distance, the had referred to, among other things, the Holocaust memorial in Berlin as a “monument of shame”.

Buchenwald 2018: witnesses to lay wreaths and flowers

The Central Council of Jews in Germany warned on the occasion of the International Holocaust memorial day in front of a growing Historical amnesia in Germany and Europe. The lack of historical Knowledge and the lack of empathy with the Victims of the Shoah, led to indifference, fear Central Council President Josef Schuster. The Holocaust remembrance day is here, set against a clear sign.

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