The Jewish Student Union Germany (JSUD) is organizing a poster campaign on the night of January 26th to 27th, 2022 to commemorate the International Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. This campaign is carried out in cooperation with the Sinti and Roma Pride initiative.
At 15 locations (Berlin, Cologne, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt, Neumünster, Göttingen, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Hanover, Tübingen and Heidelberg) places are highlighted in front of which there are no commemorative plaques, memorials or stumbling blocks. Places such as former department stores, institutions and places of residence should be made visible with the help of the posters and banners.
SLOGANS The three slogans calling for commemoration are “Remembering means changing”, “It didn’t start in Auschwitz” and “The hatred against us didn’t stop in 1945”. In addition, there are QR codes on the posters that lead to the so-called »Manifesto of Remembrance«, which is accessible via the JSUD’s social media channels.
The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the so-called “empty spaces” in the respective city that arose during the Nazi regime. Expropriations, demolitions and exterminations of Jewish and Sinti and Roma. Facilities that can no longer be seen today are to be made visible this year.
The JSUD points out »that hatred of Jews, racism and anti-Gypsyism did not begin with gas chambers and Auschwitz, but with anti-Semitic, racist and anti-Gypsy abuse and the silence and mere spectatorship of the dominant society. We have to recognize and understand the beginnings and structures of anti-Semitism, racism and antigypsyism so that “never again” does not remain empty words, but a promise that is kept with all responsibility”. and
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