by Cornell Hoppe, 02.02.2025 On Saturday, the Jewish population was remembered in Themar. During a tour of the Stolpersteine, visitors were given extensive information about the various families. Always, we look down in humility. There are 66 stumbling blocks embedded in the town’s pavement. Each one tells of … Read more
27 January 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp. Until Red Army soldiers liberated about  7 thousand prisoners still at the camp, the German Nazis had murdered approx. 1.1 million people in Auschwitz, mostly Jews, but also Poles, the Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and … Read more
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 ThĂŒringen 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
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