Memorial plaque for the Greifswald Jewish community in Mühlenstraße

Once again this year, the events surrounding the Kristallnacht, as it was popularly known at the time, will be commemorated in Greifswald on November 9. Hundreds of synagogues were set on fire in an act of rare barbarism, stores were vandalized, people were abused, humiliated and imprisoned. A pogrom ordered by the Reich government that marked the beginning of the genocide of the Jews.

To mark the occasion, the Protestant student community invites you to a service at 1 p.m. in Mühlenstraße, at the memorial plaque of the former prayer room of the small Jewish community in Greifswald. Afterwards, flowers will be laid at selected stumbling blocks.

On November 6, at 6:30 pm, there will be a lecture on the topic "How Jesus became an 'Aryan'. The Eisenach 'De-Jewification Institute' and Walter Grundmann's anti-Semitism". Dr. Torsten Lattki (historian and Director of Studies for Interreligious Dialogue, Bad Nauheim) will speak at the Pomeranian State Museum.