Gelsenkirchen - 27.01.11
witness from Marl says to the Holocaust memorial day to students in Gelsenkirchen
to Holocaust Abrahamson told Memorial Rolf students of the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium Gelsenkirchen by his relocation to the ghetto in Riga, and his return to Germany. The 85-year-old has survived seven concentration camps.
hang on his every word. From the lower school listen to Level 13 students in the auditorium of the Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Gymnasium banned the words of the 85-year-old Marler, who sits on the front of the stage and told. And that is anything but a fairy tale hour. Rolf Abraham's son reported his life. Abraham's son is a Jew in Nazi Germany and has seven concentration camps survived.
Here no one whispers, giggles, here no one here bothers no one. Each Jack rustling is perceived as a nuisance. What tells Abraham's son Rolf is exciting, exciting, incredible - and unfortunately true. Now and then provokes the senior Lacher done, it was difficult about the word "email". This relaxes the tension in a room little. But it remains silent.
SS father beat down
The Jew tells the story of Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, in his family home was set on fire in Marl and instead of marching out of the fire, the SS, the niederknüppelte his father. Since he was 13 years old.
He tells of the deportation to the wild-breaking space in Gelsenkirchen, where the road led for 506 Jews from the Präsidialbezirk Recklinghausen to the ghetto in Riga. Until that day, exactly three years before the liberation of Auschwitz, on 27 January 1942, he had lived in Recklinghausen. Marl was now "free of Jews".
"On the train heading east, it was hot during the day. And freezing cold at night - fortunately. We were able to lick the frozen water from the windows, so we do not die of thirst altogether. "For eight days the drive took to Latvia. Abraham's son was 14 years old. And his odyssey through the German Reich was only just beginning. The Buchenwald, Theresienstadt and others were still to come.
past toll on the forces of the 85-year-old
the end of the club Gelsenkirchen center initiated event the 85-year-old who now lives in Marl fails, the voice, "Now I have spoken to you . But once year's is also sufficient. This is exhausting. "In the auditorium it is even quieter.
Rolf Before Abraham's son is adopted, to applause, he faces up to the few questions of the 200 students. "How was it for you to stay after the war here in Germany?" Asks a student. After the war, the Jew was to Recklinghausen, later returned to Marl. Originally he had wanted to emigrate, but got the necessary papers until 1950 - because he had already built up an existence. And stayed. "All I can remember, and this is the worst in history."
Source: The West, 27.01.11
