Overview
- In cities across the country, municipalities and partner groups are holding services, wreath-layings and site-specific tributes at former synagogue locations on Sunday, 9 November.
- Frankfurt’s central commemoration is set for 4 p.m. in the Paulskirche with remarks by Mayor Mike Josef and Jewish community leader Rachel Heuberger, alongside additional local programs and film showings.
- TU Darmstadt’s virtuelle-synagogen.de goes live on Sunday with public access to more than 40 virtual reconstructions of synagogues destroyed under National Socialism.
- Thuringia’s Minister-President Mario Voigt stressed the region’s centuries of Jewish heritage and the need to reject antisemitism, with a 9–13 November visit to Israel that includes a wreath-laying at Yad Vashem.
- Local reporting underscores historical specificity and current appeals for protection and education, from Oberhausen’s account of fire brigade complicity in 1938 to Potsdam and Brandenburg coalitions urging stronger safeguards; events also acknowledge the date’s link to the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.