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You can see the film here. You can see the film here. Lotte Schaefer, née Rosenberg, in the documentary film We were neighbors after all

On 5 December 2017, Themar and Kloster Vessra were awarded the 2017 Democracy Prize for Thüringen for their peaceful protests against the right-wing extremist activities in Themar. As you may know, three right-wing concerts were held in the meadows abutting Themar, drawing over 8,000 right-wing extremists from all over Germany as well as Austria, Czechoslovakia, … Read more

Themar – “Quite a number of people came together on Monday morning to attend the renewed laying of Stolpersteine by the action artist Gunter Demnig. They have come to keep alive the memory of the former Jewish inhabitants of the town and thus to make a small contribution to coming to terms with the barbarity … Read more

http://www.mdr.de/thueringen/mitte-west-thueringen/gedenken-deportation-juden-weimar-100.html

In 1983, Manfred Rosengarten from San Francisco wrote to a former classmate in Themar about his homesickness. After being expelled by the Nazis, he, a Jew from southern Thuringia, had found a new home in the USA. A lively correspondence quickly developed between residents of Themar and Manfred Rosengarten. In 2011, descendants of the Jews … Read more

This article appeared in the January 2016 newsletter, Zachor, of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre.