Stumbling block for Jewish citizens of Brandenburg

For the first time there are “obstructions” in Brandenburg an der Havel, commemorating the Jews of Brandenburg: Bernhard Meyer, Sally and Grete Cohn and Wally Lesser. Every single stone is positioned in entrance of the last regarded and chosen residential tackle of the 4 Holocaust victims in the town of Brandenburg an der Havel. The golden stones have been built by the artist Gunter Demnig. To the Friday 16 September 2022, from 11:00 the four commemorative stones are put in the pavement.

Judicial councilor Bernhard Meyer, who experienced worked as a attorney in Brandenburg an der Havel given that 1893 and also as a notary due to the fact 1901. In addition to admission for the nearby district court, he also had this for the Potsdam district court docket and the new chambers for the trade issues of Brandenburg an der Havel and Potsdam. He is documented as a member of the Jewish neighborhood. While he was coated by an exception to the legislation on the apply of legal professionals of April 1933, the transfer of his workplace to his non-public apartment at Packhofstraße 12 implies that he only managed to practice his profession for a brief time with difficulty. Bernhard Meyer died on 7 October 1935 following a suicide attempt.

Sally and Grete Cohn lived across the avenue at Packhofstrasse 24. Sally Cohn proven himself as a law firm in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1906, but was continuously denied the appointment as a notary. Among 1916 and 1918 he fought the To start with Entire world War until finally then Mayor Franz Schleusener called him from military services provider to the city administration. In 1919 he was appointed notary and was also admitted to the Potsdam District Courtroom and the Chambers for Professional Affairs of Brandenburg an der Havel and Potsdam. 2 times he was metropolis councilor and from 1931 to 1933 head of the synagogue neighborhood of Brandenburg. Right after the National Socialists came to electricity, Sally Cohn was systematically excluded, threatened and banned from practicing her occupation because of to her prior political things to do. Irrespective of her exemption, she ought to have continued to perform as a law firm. From the conclude of 1934 to 1941 he labored as an place of work supervisor for a Jewish establishment in Berlin, his wife Grete was in a position to do the job as an assistant in his brother’s doctor’s place of work. In the autumn they experienced to give up their Brandenburg apartment. Sally Cohn was intended to be arrested on the night time of the pogrom of 9 November 1938, but she was in Berlin. The few arrived below escalating tension from the Gestapo to emigrate, but it wasn’t until finally 1941 that they received visas for the United States. Grete Cohn died in 1947, Sally Cohn in 1963.

The fourth impediment will be placed for Wally Lesser in front of Domlinden 5 in the presence of numerous of his family. The cupboard exhibition in the town museum “Wally Lesser – Strategies of Life” is also devoted to her. Wally Lesser arrived in Brandenburg an der Havel from Posen all over 1921 with her partner Max and their 3 children. Just after Max’s divorce and departure in 1928, she took care of the household alone, even in more and more hard situations since 1933. In 1936 two sons left Havelstadt for the Usa and Palestine, and in 1939 the third also went into exile in Australia. Only then did her mother deal with to get out of hostile Germany. She arrived on the previous ship that remaining Trieste in 1940 for Shanghai, wherever she tragically died in 1941 from blood poisoning. Max and his next wife died in the Riga ghetto. Two stumbling blocks will be positioned on them two days before in Leipzig.

Mayor Steffen Scheller sponsors the Wally Lesser stones, also on behalf of the household, Bernhard Meyer and Sally Cohn sponsor Bernhard Meyer and Sally Cohn, and Grete Cohn is sponsored by the Brandenburg an der Havel Rotary Club. The transfer usually takes place at the request of family and descendants. The Minimal Spouse and children will be represented by several customers.

The ceremony begins at 11:00 in the parking good deal following to Packhofstraße 12 and moves to Domlinden 5 at all over 11:30, in which it proceeds from close to 11:45 and ends there.