The pristine -friendly college city of Tübingen flourishing today, to a large extent, in contrast to his dark past.
The southwestern city of 90,000 was once the home of Theodor Dannecker, the Nazi captain and one of the closest assistants Adolf Eichmann, known as the “Holocaust Architect”. In 1933, the University of Tübingen, where many infamous Nazi Nazi soldiers were known as SS trained until 1945, proudly called themselves “Jewish free”. These days, Tübingen recognizes his painful history to rise above her.
“We can only live here as Christians in this community if we take responsibility for the history of this city,” Jobst Bittner, founder and Tübingen’s Tos Church and the March of Life Initiative, where the descendants of Nazis organize marches against anti -Semitism with Christians and Jews around the world, said to Israeli Channel 11.
Nazi offshore Frank Pfeiffer, left, accepts the surviving holocaust Yechiel Alexander. (March of Life)
The television output report was shown by a banner via the TOS Church’s window, which read “Bring them home now”, a call to the release of almost 100 Israeli and American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Inside the church is to be kept with the goods and books of Israel. Down is the “guilt museum”, which shows the pictures of Nazis from Tübingen, with photos of mass graves that were once hidden in cigar boxes like the Holocaust souvenirs.
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The second segment in the report showed young people from the church singing “Am Yisrael Chai” (“The Lives of Israel”), although they barely know Hebrew. During the vaccine break, they build a hut (temporary huts) to celebrate the freedom of Israeli from enslavement in Egypt.
Heinz Reuss, an elderly at the TOS Church, International Marsha Director of Life, described last year’s Sukkot celebrated at the Market Square in the city center as “very beautiful”. He said that the rabbi from the next city came to Tübingen to recite blessings, just as he does during the Hanuka, when the menora candles lightly light.
The former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who have run in the occupied Poland, is now a memorial and a museum. (March of Life)
The musical, the “ship true history”, based on the story of the Holocaust survivors and exodus, was also performed during Hanuka. Michael Buckel, the program director of the March March movement and the author of the play, described how to teach children about the Holocaust in the not threatening way and that she was inspired by the resistance of the Jewish people after the Holocaust.
“I wanted to direct the play to this willingness to live and fight for a new life, though it’s hard,” she said.
Reuss said that Christians in his church celebrate some Jewish holidays as a gesture of friendship and admit “from there, a blessing, Jewish roots come.”
Addressing the anti -Semitic history of the city, Reuss remembered a turning point in 2003, when a lot of congregations began to discover that their family members were Nazis.
“It was a powerful repentance time and in some way of cure,” he said.
The survivor of the Holocaust Irene Shashar will speak at the Tosa Church in Tübingen, Germany, on the eve of the Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was marked on January 27. (Dain Le Lardic)
The Kim-Sophie Kasch TOS Way leader, 24, told Fox News Digital that when she was 7, after her great-grandfather had died, her family revealed that he was a Nazi. He was part of the Armed Forces of Nazi German Wehrmacht and was in European areas “where they committed crimes against the Polish Lithuanian population (I) and the Jews who lived there.”
Kasch described his father as “really shocked when he heard about his grandfather.”
Reuss said that when Church Church Congregants found that there were eight concentration camps around Tübingen, as well as dark traces of death march, “Everything became visible. Everyone saw it. ”
He described how they organized a prayer march with the descendants of the Holocaust survivors and the descendants of the Nazis, who became a three -day event.
“It was very, very significant for us,” Reuss said.
Since 2007, the events of March have been held in hundreds of cities in more than 20 countries, where the Holocaust survivors and descendants of Nazis visit the places of concentration camp and mass graves across Europe.
In 2009, the movement expanded to the United States, where it became known as a march of memories, a memorial -wrapping every spring on Yom Hashoah, a Holocaust and a day of memory of a hero.
“The message is the memory, reconciliation and setting up the attitude for Israel and against anti -Semitism,” Reuss said. “He teaches the lessons about the Holocaust, and we encourage people to truly face the history of anti -Semitism in their own families.”
Reuss said that his great -grandfather from the Netherlands, who was the Christian of Orthodox reform, saved Jewish lives by refusing to sign a declaration that states that he was not a Jew, because he did not want to issue his Jewish friends. He expressed disappointment that his German grandfather did not show the same courage on his father’s side and withdrew from the Jewish people.
“It’s so important to really speak and not remain silent in your personal environment and your work space, because this is anti -Semitism. It is evil. It’s something that doesn’t stop with the Jews,” Reuss said.
Reuss told Fox News Digital that this year, for the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust on January 27, Irene Shashar survived on December 12, 1937, as Ruth Lewkowicz, he would be honored at TOS Church. He will speak the day before, speaking to the congregations his story of survival in Warsaw.
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The Nazis attacked Shashar’s homeland of Poland when she was two years old, and her father was killed when she was 5. Shashar deserved the ingenuity of her mother, for helping her survive, hiding her in the closets and sewage with her beloved doll, Laleczka. Referring to her two children and seven grandchildren on the UN speech 2020, she stated: “I survived … Hitler did not win and have evidence.”
