Initiative 'Denk Mal Am Ort' invites descendants to visit original homes where Jewish families lived before deportation, creating intimate remembrance experiences beyond traditional memorials. Young people like Adam Klein are researching family histories prompted by rising antisemitism, discovering documents revealing how Nazi decrees stripped Jewish citizens of rights and livelihoods.
Houses as Memory: How Germans Honor Jewish Neighbors Lost to the Holocaust
Jewish residents were forcibly evicted from homes starting 1939, with nine people crowded into single apartments before systematic deportation to ghettos and camps; many did not survive the Nazi era.