On the occasion of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, our Center and the Meran City Library are organising a themed evening. The focus will be on the Alpine School Home on the Vigiljoch, which offered refuge to thirty-five Jewish children from Germany and Austria in the years before 1938.
When: January 24th, 8 PM
Where: Meran/Merano City library
Presentation and discussion in German
In the 1930s, the school offered Jewish children from Germany a safe haven from persecution in Nazi Germany. Merano was considered relatively safe by German-speaking Jews between 1930 and 1938. However, the introduction of Italian racial laws in 1938 dramatically worsened the situation. Many Jewish families had to flee and the school on the Vigiljoch was closed. Three short lectures will present the period from 1922 to 1938 and the fate of the pupils before and after the closure. This will be followed by a panel discussion on how it is possible to remember in the South Tyrolean context today – almost 80 years after the end of the Second World War and at a time when there are fewer and fewer contemporary witnesses.
Photo: Lana, Villa Singer, entrance 2018.
ManfredK – Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70441098