Last address

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Memorial plaque of a last address in Moscow :
"
Ekaterina Mikhailovna
Schelwatych lived here
typist
born in 1905
arrested January 11, 1938
executed April 5 , 1938
rehabilitated 1957"

Last Address ( Russian Последний адрес ; Transkription Posledny adres ) is a project launched by the Memorial Foundation , which has been commemorating the victims of the Stalinist purges in Russia since 2014 by putting up memorial plaques .

According to the foundation, only people who were not guilty of any crime are honored - neither under the communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union , nor under National Socialism .

The panels consist of a metal plate with life data in which a square recess forms an empty space. The warning boards are only attached to the outside of the last known residential building with the consent of the house owner.

In 2018 the project received a Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize in Germany . In terms of commemoration, the project has certain similarities - the last known place of residence of the victims - with the Stolpersteine project .

Placing the memorial plaques in Russia

The human rights organization Memorial, founded in 1988, supports the citizens' campaign 'Last Address' . The first plaques were installed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg . The thousandth plaque was installed on February 7, 2020 in the city of Gorokhovets (Russia). There are also memorial plaques in Yekaterinburg , Rostov-on-Don , Perm , Taganrog , Barnaul , Krasnoyarsk , etc.

In 2020, panels were removed in Perm, Yekaterinburg and on the former KGB building in Term . Russian authorities harass the human rights organization Memorial .

The last address in Germany

On August 30, 2019, the last address project was started in Germany. The first plaque appeared in the Thuringian city ​​of Treffurt .

The project in Germany was initiated by the book Shot in Moscow , published in 2005 , which told the story of the fate of nearly 1,000 Germans who were secretly arrested between 1950 and 1953, convicted by Soviet military tribunals for alleged espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and finally executed.

The last address in other countries

The first country outside of Russia was Ukraine , where a separate project “Ostannya Addressa” based on the Russian “Last Address” was started. On May 5, 2017, the first three plaques were placed on three houses in Kiev .

On June 7, 2017, on the day of the political prisoners, plaques of the "Poslední adresa" appeared on the facades of four houses in Prague . On August 2, 2018, the “Ultima adresa” project was started in Moldova . The first two panels of the “Last Address” appeared in Chisinau .

On October 5, 2018, the Georgian project “უკანასკნელი მისამართი. საქართველო ”(“ Last Address, Georgia ”) officially started.

Web links

Commons : Last Address  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Solveig Grothe, DER SPIEGEL: Shot in Moscow: Why the mathematician Helmut Sonnenschein disappeared - DER SPIEGEL - history. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Johannes Voswinkel: Operation “Last Address”. In: Zeit Online . January 12, 2015, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Christian Neef : Stumbling blocks for Stalin's victims. In: Spiegel Online . April 21, 2016, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Awarding of the Karl Wilhelm Fricke Prize 2018 , Federal Foundation for Coming to terms with the SED dictatorship , press release of June 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Последний адрес: Тысячная табличка в России (часть 1). In: blnews.ru. February 13, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 (Russian).
  6. ↑ FAZ.net June 4, 2020: The Virus of the West
  7. ↑ Memorial plaque reminds of injustice by the military tribunal. In: Thuringian General . September 18, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ordered to the town hall. And never returned. In: The world . September 10, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ "Shot in Moscow": Feature by Mario Bandi about around 1,000 German victims of Stalinism. In: piqd . February 2, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  10. ^ "Last address" for victims of Stalinism. In: Deutsche Welle . September 6, 2019, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  11. ↑ LAST ADDRESS: A CIVIC INITIATIVE TO COMMEMORATE VICTIMS OF SOVIET REPRESSIONS. In: Free Russia. June 10, 2018, accessed April 4, 2020 . }
  12. ↑ Poslední adresa
  13. ^ "Last Address" project commemorates victims who were executed or whose deaths were hastened by the Communist regime. In: Radio Praha International . June 27, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Ultima adresa
  15. ↑ В Тбилиси «Последний адрес» впервые установил мемориальный знак жертве политических репрессий. In: Новости-Грузия. October 6, 2017, accessed April 4, 2020 (Russian).