Memory of the victims of the children's department: Memorial ceremony on the Eichborndamm

On Friday (November 15th), a moving ceremony was held at the Eichborndamm memorial location 238, which awakens the memory of the terrible deeds in the "Wiesengrund" children's department. This place, which was launched in July 1941 in Wittenau as part of the urban nerve clinic for children, stands for one of the darkest episodes in the history of Germany. Innocent children who were classified as "inevitable" were exposed to unimaginable grays - to inadequate care, hunger and inhuman experiments up to death through failure to help.

In a moving speech, district councilor Harald Muschner (CDU) called up to deal with the dark past. He urged: "The memory of the atrocities of the past is painful, but necessary. The Eichborndamm memorial location urges us that every life is equally valuable. With projects like this, we keep the memory alive and contribute to the fact that humanity and compassion in our society never get out of view."

an urgent appeal to the future

The commemoration offered not only a moment of pausing, but also a strong signal to the current and future generations to take responsibility and to combat forgetting. In an impressive way, the memorial is reminded of the over 100 murdered children with a history laboratory, an exhibition and a memorial wall. Every year as part of the sponsorship project "My Dear Child", one of the children is thought - and this year it was the turn of the fate of Werner H.

The five-year-old boy, who had to let his life so cruel, was honored by class 10.5 of the Thomas Mann Gymnasium in a creative project. Under the motto "hope, help, healing? - Young people rap to memory of Werner H. and his short life", the students dealt intensively with Werner's fate. With a touching rap, they gave their memory of him a special expression. The ceremony found its emotional conclusion with an impressive flower laying on the plaque.