Memory of Treblinka: Information board built at the district court site

Memory of Treblinka: Information board built at the district court site

On June 27, 2024, an information board will be pointed out at 1 p.m. on the district court on the plastic "Treblinka" by the artist Vadim Sidur. The occasion is the sculptor's 100th birthday on June 28th. The plastic was established in public space in 1979 and is one of the earliest artistic arguments with the Shoah. Vadim Sidur, a Soviet sculptor, created the plastic as a memory of the victims of the National Socialist extermination camp.

The Shoah, also known as Holocaust, was the systematic genocide of the European Jews, which was carried out during the Second World War. The Reinhardt campaign was the cod name for the genocide in the Jewish population of the occupied Poland, in which more than 800,000 Jews and relatives of the Sinti and Roma were murdered in Treblinka alone.

In Germany, only a few of the perpetrators of these atrocities were convicted between 1950 and 1970. The last survivor of the Treblinka extermination camp died in 2016, which again underlines the importance of memory and memory of these tragic events.

The Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and students from Touro University Berlin have already developed a digital exhibition under the title "Treblinka remember". To unveiled the plaque at the district court center, contributions from various personalities, including Prof. Stephan Lehnstaedt from Touro University Berlin and Karl Eimmermacher, friend and sponsor of Vadim Sidur, are presented.

The financing for the implementation of the information board is provided by City Tax funds from the Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Companies that are specially intended for special tourist projects in the district.

It is important that the memory of the victims of the Shoah will be maintained to ensure that such tragic events never take place again. The plastic "Treblinka" and the associated information board serve as a memorial and memory of the horrors of the past so that they are not forgotten.

| Information | Details |
| - | - |
| Artist | Vadim Sidur |
| Plastic name | Treblinka |
| Fearing year | 1979 |
| Reason for information board | 100th birthday of the artist |
| Financing | City tax funds from the Senate Department |
| Digital exhibition | "Remember Treblinka" |

Source: www.berlin.de