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Reminder: The Alter Schlachthof Memorial Centre, Dusseldorf: the experience of the Jews of Dusseldorf, 1933–1945 - Zoom talk on 14 Feb 2021

The JGSGB

Invites you to a Zoom talk at 2 pm on Sunday, 14th February 2021

The Alter Schlachthof Memorial Centre, Dusseldorf: the experience of the Jews of Dusseldorf, 1933–1945.

Speaker, Professor Joachim Schroeder, Director of the Centre.

The Alter Schlachthof Memorial Centre on the campus of the Dusseldorf University of Applied Sciences commemorates the deported Jews of Dusseldorf and its surrounding region. The cattle market of a former municipal slaughterhouse was used by the Nazis as a collection camp prior to their deportation.

Professor Schroeder studied history and political sciences and was awarded a PhD in history by the Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf, in 2006. He has worked on different projects including the “traditional” history of enmity between Germany and France; and forced labour in Nazi-Germany. He was a member of the scientific staff of the National Socialist-Documentation Centre in Munich from 2009 to 2013. In 2013, he was appointed by the University of Applied Sciences in Dusseldorf to research and establish the Alter Schlachthof Memorial Site: it was inaugurated in 2016.

He has published works on the history of Nazism; and his most recent book (in German and English) is Erinnerungsort Alter Schlachthof/Alter Schlachthof Memorial Centre: Ausstellungskatalog/Exhibition Catalogue.

To register in advance for the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdumtqDotG92uklBBF-RV8Iqax3sCGgow

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Note: At the JGSGB’s mini-conference in October, our Patron, Robert Voss, spoke about his voyage of discovery when he took part in a BBC documentary tracing his German ancestry with a view to establishing his entitlement to a German passport. He discovered that his grandparents, Ferdinand and Frieda Voss had been held at the old slaughterhouse in Dusseldorf before being transported to Izbica in Poland and then to Sobibor where they were killed immediately on arrival. In Dusseldorf, Robert Voss met Professor Schroeder who talked to him about the experience of Jews in Dusseldorf and showed him round the Alter Schlachthof Memorial Centre. 
 
 
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