Street & Locale Names

Exemplary remembrance of Jewish children of Bielefeld who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Exemplary remembrance of Jewish children of Bielefeld who lost their lives in the Holocaust.

"A look at the map of Südthüringen shows here a special density of places where evidence of Jüdic life has been preserved. [...] Place names künden of the Jüdischen Händlern and Schmusern, as the Krämer and Geschäftevermittler ... were called. Thus, today's highway A 71 between Meiningen-Nord and Meiningen-Süd üd over the Judentalbrücke. Through this valley traditionally moved jüdische Kleinhändler." (Eike Küstner)

Otto Schwabe (born on October 2 1894 in Hanau; died on September 22 1937 ibid) was a German Jüdian physician well known in the city of Hanau, who met his death under unexplained circumstances after being arrested by the Gestapo . Schwabe came from a Jewish family long established in Hanau, whose origin was the house first mentioned in 1689 Zum Schwaben in Hanauer Judengasse (today Nordstraße).

Friedrich Canthal (* April 1848 in Hanau; † November 1922) was entrepreneur and local politician in Hanau.

Friedrich („Fritz“) Canthal was born in Hanauer Judengasse as the son of a brandy and liquor manufacturer. In 1863, after the death of his father, he took over the company and developed it into one of the leading companies in the industry in Südwest Germany. From 1876 he was a member of the Hanau Chamber of Commerce, whose president he was between 1891 and 1918.

Hans Rosenthal (02.04.1925 - 10.02.1987) was a Jew who hid in a small summerhouse for two years during the Nazi regime. Subsequently, he had appearances as a television quizmaster, including in a television show called "Dalli Dalli".

With the memorial and information site, a courageous act has been brought to memory, with which still today Anstöße are given racism and anti-Semitism and right-wing extremist attitudes no place in the present and future to eingeruräumen.

In many cities there was a „Judengasse“,. „Jüdenstraße“ or a „Jüdenring“, so also in Görlitz.