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remembering

Mit Gewehr im Rücken werden 800 jüdische Mädchen und Frauen täglich durch Geislingen getrieben.

Study material

Here you can find original documents, newspaper articles and speeches on occasion of the commotion events.

Speech Esther Lewin (granddaughter of Holocaust survivors), Commemoration Ceremony for the Geislingen Concentration Camp Subcamp at the Rätsche

on April 29, 2025

Presentation Esther Lewin (Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors), Commemoration Ceremony for the Geislingen Concentration Camp Subcamp at the Rätsche

on April 29, 2025

Speech Mayor Frank Dehmer, Commemoration Ceremony for the Geislingen Concentration Camp Subcamp

on April 28, 2025

Speech Dr. Philipp Lintner (Head of the Geislingen City Archive), “80 years after liberation” – a commemorative event against forgetting at the Communication Center on the campus of Groupe SEB/WMF in Geislingen

on April 28, 2025

Speech Rosemarie Schneider (member of the initiative “Remember–Honor–Reconcile”), “80 years after liberation” – a commemorative event against forgetting at the Communication Center on the campus of Groupe SEB/WMF in Geislingen

on April 28, 2025

Speech Michael Simon (son of a Jewish forced laborer), “80 years after liberation” – a commemorative event against forgetting at the Communication Center on the campus of Groupe SEB/WMF in Geislingen

on April 28, 2025

Presentation Michael Simon (Son of a Jewish forced laborer), “80 years after liberation” – a commemorative event against forgetting at the Communication Center on the campus of Groupe SEB/WMF in Geislingen

on April 28, 2025

Speech Saša Šavel Burkart (Granddaughter of Holocaust survivors), “80 years after liberation” – a commemorative event against forgetting at the Communication Center on the campus of Groupe SEB/WMF in Geislingen

on April 28, 2025

Agenda of the zoom meeting

on April 29, 2021

Sivan Sobol, granddaughter of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the zoom meeting of the Initiative “remembering - honouring - reconciling“

on April 29, 2021

Haim Sobol, son of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the zoom meeting of the Initiative “remembering - honouring - reconciling“

on April 29, 2021

History presentation of Victoria Majko, Michelberg High School, 2020

Victoria, a participant of the German - Israel student exchange Geislingen - Ashdod, dealt intensively with local events in history. Besides facts and numbers she outlines the life of the women in the concentration camp and reflects on the history of coming to terms with this past.

Dr. Hansjuergen Goelz at the commemoration

on November 9, “Reichskristallnacht“, 2020

President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, on January 23, 2020
Presentation of the Initiative “remembering - honoring - reconciling“  at the commemoration

on November 9, 2018

Andrea Kloeber, Verband Region Stuttgart, at the dedication of the memorial

on April 29, 2018

Consul General of Israel in Munich, Sandra Simovich, at the dedication of the memorial

on April 29, 2018

H.E. Dov Segev-Steinberg, Israel´s ambassador to Finland and Estonia, at the dedication of the memorial

on April 29, 2018

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer at the dedication of the memorial

on April 29, 2018

Lenka Weksberg, survivor of the KZ satellite camp Geislingen, on her visit to Geislingen

on November 26, 2015

Lenka Weksberg, survivor of the KZ satellite camp Geislingen: eulogy for Adolph Schoofs, WMF foreman

on November 25, 2015

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer at the laying of the stumbling block in front of WMF

on September 15, 2015

Sivan Sobol, granddaughter of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the commemoration

on May 8, 2015

Chani Rieger, daughter of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the commemoration

on May 8, 2015

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer on occasion of the commemoration

on May 8, 2015

silent march and info event on the 70th anniversary of the liberation: flyer with invitation and order of events

May 8, 2015

Iffeldorf report on the liberation of, among others, the women from Geislingen

May 3, 1945

The transport list of the Jewish women and girls from Geislingen to Allach on April 11, 1945
SS work and sick camp Allach - arrivals on 11.4.1945 from KZ Natzweiler - satellite camp Geislingen
Wedding congratulations from the KZ-women to Mr. Schneller

February 23, 1945

"In my homeland, the roses are blooming".
Berta Weiss, a survivor, has not forgotten this song, which the Jewish women and girls had to sing on their way from the concentration satellite camp to work at the WMF.