Ermordet, aber nie vergessen.

In the organizer's words:

Lecture in commemoration of the beginning of the deportation of Pomeranian Jews 85 years ago. Speaker: Heiko Wartenberg

When Hitler formed his cabinet on January 30, 1933 and elevated anti-Semitism to a state doctrine, a new situation arose for Jewish Germans. Around 7800 fellow citizens with Jewish roots lived in Pomerania at the time, a third of them in the provincial capital of Szczecin. Many Jews had already left the province before the National Socialists came to power. The laws enacted from 1933 onwards increased the marginalization and pressure to emigrate. Occupational bans and systematic robbery through the "Aryanization" of businesses, stores and assets set in. By 1939, 3329 people with Jewish roots were still living in Pomerania. The first mass deportation of German Jews took place here on February 12/13, 1940 in order to "cleanse" the province of Jews. Of the 1124 people deported to the Lublin region, only around 20 survived the Holocaust.
The action was intended as a test for later extermination measures, but above all as a test of the reaction of foreign countries. When the "final solution" was specified at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, only a few Jews were still living in Pomerania. They too were soon transported to the extermination camps in the East.

Exhibition curator Heiko Wartenberg explains how this low point in Pomeranian and German history is presented in the Pomeranian State Museum.

Organizer: Working Group Church and Judaism & UHGW