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+ | I have known the house at 92 Fehrbelliner Strasse, in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, since 1998. | ||
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+ | When I arrived at the house one day I was greeted by some of the women working there, who told me excitedly: A few days ago, an old man came to the house, looked at everything and said that he had lived in this house as a Jewish child. That is how I discovered that the house had been a Jewish children' | ||
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+ | It was a commission for me, arising out of the work of the One by One discussion group. What do we know of our families' | ||
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+ | I asked myself: what is the history of this house? What else can I find out about it? What is its message for the future? I first went to the local history museum in Prenzlauer Berg. I was given access to various files about the building construction and its history, which confirmed that it had been a Jewish children' | ||
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+ | In the summer of 1999, I received a visit from a woman from America. She had been able to leave Berlin as a child on a // | ||
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+ | But I could not forget the children of the home. I talked about it a great deal, wanting to understand why I wanted to continue with the search. "What are your motives, why do you want to know what happened to them?" I was often asked. It was certainly connected with the fact that I come from a family of " | ||
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+ | I let the matter rest for a long time, finally taking up research again in the summer of 2001. I rang the archive of the Jewish Community in Berlin and explained what I was looking for. When I entered the room, the woman working there brought me a fat bundle of small sheets of paper, with names, dates of birth, information about schooling and dates of deportation, | ||
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+ | When I walk into the former children' | ||
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+ | Some of the notes, however, had remarks like " | ||
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+ | By now I had become much bolder and had spoken about my project in many places and on many occasions. Suddenly I started to receive information from all sides. The Centre for Research into Anti-Semitism //(Zentrum für Antisemitismus-Forschung der Technischen Universität Berlin)// was very supportive. **Claudia Curio** drew my attention to **Gideon B.**'s book (see chapter 5), in which he gives a very detailed account of his youth in Prenzlauer Berg and his rescue by the // | ||
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+ | The daughter of **Abraham Pisarek** gave me photos of children in the home taken by her father. These photos show how the children in the home celebrated, read, learnt, did sport. Looking into the faces of some of the children, I can see in their eyes that they were aware of the horrors of the time, of the threat they were under. | ||
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+ | This children' | ||
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+ | Many of them came from poor backgrounds. Many of their parents had come to Berlin from Poland. Were these some of the families who were sent back to Poland in 1938? Many of the children had only one parent or were orphans; for them, the children' | ||
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+ | The longer I researched into the history of the children' | ||
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+ | I have finished my research for the moment, and the results are presented here. I now have a number of supporters, including the present users of the house in Fehrbelliner Strasse which has become a community center. It has a permanent exhibition of photos of the children from the **Pisarek** archive and includes the stories of four of the survivors. At the entrance to the building there is now a memorial plaque and in the corridor one can read the names of the murdered children. | ||
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+ | Not many traces of the murdered children and their carers remain. I have collected the little that is known in short biographies and you can now read the life stories of eight survivors. | ||
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+ | Today it is very important for the present users of the former Jewish children' | ||
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+ | ^Regina, Toska, Gideon und Ruth zu Besuch in Berlin vom 7. bis 10. Sept. 2007\\ Photo: privat| | ||
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+ | Inge Franken | ||
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+ | Berlin, October 2007 | ||
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+ | [[thanks# |
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