Wollheim Memorial
The Wollheim Memorial is a Holocaust memorial in Frankfurt am Main .
It is named after the former director of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and IG Farben forced laborer Norbert Wollheim (1913–1998), commemorates the victims of Buna / Monowitz and provides information about their history and compensation.
The Wollheim Memorial, designed by Heiner Blum and opened on November 2, 2008, consists of a small pavilion on Grüneburgplatz, now Norbert-Wollheim-Platz, and 13 panels with portraits of former prisoners in Buna-Monowitz. The photographs, portraits of young people who later prisoners in the Buna / Monowitz, illustrating Jewish life before the Holocaust and testify destroyed worlds on the former site of IG Farben, today on the humanities and cultural studies faculties of the Goethe University Frankfurt housed ( Campus Westend ).
Norbert Wollheim's prisoner number is posted above the entrance to the pavilion. Inside, the Wollheim quote “We are saved, but we are not liberated” from August 26, 1945 is reproduced in a wall inscription . Two interactive screens use pictures, texts and documents to inform the visitor about the Nazi forced labor , the IG Farben trials , the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and about compensation (including the Federal Compensation Act and the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” foundation ).
In 24 video interviews, survivors report on their childhood, deportation, imprisonment and their life after the Holocaust . Norbert Wollheim also has a say in an interview recorded in Washington DC in 1991.
literature
- Sebastian Pein: The Norbert Wollheim Memorial in Frankfurt am Main - a place of remembrance and political-historical learning . In: Medaon 3 (2009), 5 ( online ).
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 30 ″ N , 8 ° 39 ′ 54 ″ E