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...