remembering

With rifles in their backs, 800 Jewish girls and women are driven through Geislingen every day.

Study material

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

"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.

Wedding congratulations from the KZ-women to Mr. Schneller

February 23, 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

Iffeldorf report on the liberation of, among others, the women from Geislingen, May 3, 1945

silent march and info event on the 70th anniversary of the liberation: flyer with invitation and order of events, May 8, 2015

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer on occasion of the commemoration on May 8, 2015

Chani Rieger, daughter of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the commemoration on May 8, 2015

Sivan Sobol, granddaughter of survivor Miryam Sobel, at the commemoration on May 8, 2015

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer at the laying of the stumbling block in front of WMF on September 15, 2015

Lenka Weksberg, survivor of the KZ satellite camp Geislingen: eulogy for Adolph Schoofs, WMF foreman, on November 25, 2015

Lenka Weksberg, survivor of the KZ satellite camp Geislingen, on her visit to Geislingen on November 26, 2015

Senior Mayor Frank Dehmer 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

Consul General of Israel in Munich, Sandra Simovich, at the dedication of the memorial on April 29, 2018

Andrea Kloeber, Verband Region Stuttgart, at the dedication of the memorial on April 29, 2018

Presentation of the Initiative “remembering - honoring - reconciling“ at the commemoration on November 9, 2018

President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, on January 23, 2020

Dr. Hansjuergen Goelz at the commemoration on November 9, “Reichskristallnacht“, 2020

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.

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

Agenda of the zoom meeting on April 29, 2021