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Led by Terry Swartzberg, the Stolpersteine organization in Munich placed for Stolpersteine for the following victims in 2021. Victim fate home in Munich Eugen Abeles murdered in Kaunas Reitmorstraße 53 Hermine Bach murdered in Kaunas Thierschstraße 25 Olga Benario-Prestes murdered in Bernburg Haydnstraße 12 Dr. Leo Benario died in München […]

Stolpersteine placed in Munich in 2021

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry

Terry Swartzberg has been commissioned with the management of the “New Synagogue for Erlangen” project. The Jewish congregation in this city in central Bavaria has never had a synagogue of its own. Since being refounded in 1997, the congregation has conducted services on rental premises. Since being entrusted in late […]

Terry Swartzberg: New synagogue for Erlangen

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry

Shalom chaverim ve chaverot, dear friends, High points of 2021– our workshops on Judaism and remembrance of the Holocaust with the 8th and 9th graders at Montessori Monte Balan middle school in Munich. Last May, the schoolkids decided to clean Munich’s Stolpersteine. Last Friday’s workshop was about decorating kippot with […]

Montessori middle schoolers in Munich create kippot with powerful messages

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry

Michael Smuss is the last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. Born in 1926, Michael risked his life hundreds of times to smuggle letters out and weapons into the Ghetto. The Nazis finally captured him and put him on a train to Treblinka and his certain death. A simple twist of […]

Last survivor of Warsaw Ghetto: high praise for Terry Swartzberg ...

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry

Terry Swartzberg: praying Kaddish for the victims, who were dragged out of their old age home to be sent to their deaths. Venice, Munich and 1,800 cities with Stolpersteine!

Terry Swartzberg: Praying Kaddish for victims of the Holocaust in ...

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry

Ten of Terry Swartzberg’s kippot are now on exhibition at the German government’s Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. Each kippa tells a story from Terry’s four decades of living in Germany. The 10 kippot form part of the “Search for a new homeland” […]

Terry Swartzberg’s Kippot – Exhibition in Museum of German History

December 27, 2021 in Uncategorized by Terry