Laying stumbling blocks for the Oehl family in Spandau

Laying stumbling blocks for the Oehl family in Spandau

On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the youth history workshop Spandau will move stumbling blocks for the Jewish family Oehl in front of the Gothic House in the old town of Spandau, more precisely at Breiten Straße 32. This family, consisting of Dorothea and her children Käthe and Martin, lived in the house, in which Dorothea also led a clothing store for "men & boys fashion". Martin was able to leave the USA in September 1938, while Dorothea and Käthe had a visa for Cuba, but landed in Belgium due to an incident. Käthe was finally murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, while Dorothea survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the USA after the war.

When laying the stumbling blocks, pupils of the Bertolt Brecht school will remind you of the life of the Oehl family. The stumbling blocks themselves are laid by trainees from the SOS Children's Village in Gatow. The event is available free of charge for all interested parties and takes place at 5:00 p.m. in Breiten Strasse 32 in 13597 Berlin.

The memory of the Jewish family Oehl and their tragic history is an important part of the local memorial culture and serves as a warning against the forgetting of the victims of the Holocaust. Such memorial events are crucial in order to keep the memory of the terrible events of the past alive and to promote the clarification of the crimes of National Socialism.

The laying of stumbling blocks is a common commemoration in Germany and other European countries to remind you of the victims of National Socialism. These small memorial stones are laid in front of the former houses of Nazi victims and bear their names and fates.

It is important to support such memorial events and to actively deal with the history and the consequences of discrimination and racism. Only through awareness of the past can we contribute to the fact that such terrible events do not repeat.

Source: www.berlin.de