Exhibition Opening at New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum on Sunday, July 8, 2018
No 176/2018 from Jul 03, 2018
Hardly anyone today remembers the more than 1500 Berliners who were arrested in their homes, shops, and on the streets in the early morning hours of October 28, 1938, and were taken by train to the Polish border. They were among about 17,000 persons who were forcibly expelled from the German Reich to Poland on the last cold, wet October weekend in 1938. It was the first mass deportation from the German Reich. All of those affected were deported because they were Jewish and had Polish nationality. For the first time the story of this unique expulsion is being portrayed in an exhibition in Germany. ...
