On the occasion of the memorial day for those persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime (January 27), the Bundestag is showing objects from the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in an exhibition.
Under the title “Sixteen Objects – Seventy Years of Yad Vashem”, personal belongings of Jews who had to flee from the National Socialists, were expelled from their homeland or were murdered are on display, as the Bundestag announced on Monday. According to the information, a piano, a Hanukkah candlestick, children’s toys and a diary will be shown, among other things.
The 16 exhibited objects each represent a federal state. This should make it clear that a significant part of local history has been lost everywhere in Germany, which is returning home for the first time with the exhibits, explained the Bundestag.
The chairman of the international Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan, will travel to Germany for the first time to mark the opening of the exhibition. According to the information, the exhibition will open on January 24th. Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) will also attend the opening. The exhibition can be seen in the hall of the Paul-Löbe-Haus.
On January 27, Parliament commemorates the victims of National Socialism in its traditional hour of remembrance. This year, the focus will be on people who are persecuted because of their sexual orientation, as the Bundestag announced last week. The Jew and Holocaust survivor Rozette Kats, born in 1942, will speak.
In 1996, the then Federal President Roman Herzog proclaimed the day of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz by the Red Army (January 27, 1945) as a day of remembrance. Since then, Parliament has held its own event around this day to commemorate the victims of persecution and murder by the National Socialists. (epd)
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