In Memory of Victims of the First Mass Deportation

Invitation to Placement of Stolpersteins for the Merory Family on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at 10 a.m. in Kreuzberg No 196/2018 from Jul 18, 2018 To commemorate the members of the Merory family who were deported and murdered during the Nazi era or expelled to Poland, twelve Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) by the artist Gunter Demnig will be laid on July 24 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Descendants of the family are expected to attend the ceremony, when the square brass plates will be placed in the sidewalks of Yorckstraße 74 and Friedrichstraße 2, and a memorial service at 12:00. It was only through the research of students studying the history of the deportation directed against Jews of Polish descent - the so-called Polenaktion in Berlin - that they learned of each other and are now getting to know each other personally. At the commemoration ceremony in the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstraße 95a, talks will be given by historian Dr. Alina Bothe of Freie Universität, Pamela Merory Dernham representing the Merory family, and students Lara Büchel and Christine Meibeck. At the end of the 19th century, the Merory family, who was Jewish, emigrated from an area that is now part of Poland to Berlin. Nine children were born and grew up in Berlin. The father Isidor Merory worked as an accountant at the Schultheiss brewery and died in 1926.