Local news article about the Kristallnacht ceremony in Münzenberg. Here is the translation: No “one-size-fits-all” approach: This year’s commemoration by the town of Münzenberg and the Friends of Münzenberg Castle and Town was anything but an automated, perfunctory event. The focus this year was on the eventful life of Gerda Katz, a resident of Münzenberg who had to flee the Nazis in 1938 – a commemoration poised between hope, loss, and historical responsibility. Gerda Frumki

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The Kristallnacht Commemoration in Münzenberg was held in the old synagogue yesterday. Its history reflects shifting attitudes towards Jews in Germany.  For ninety years — 1848 to 1938 — six Jewish families who lived in Münzenberg, including Gerda Katz, worshipped in the small, two-story synagogue in the center of the city, near the Lutheran church.   But on Kristallnacht, Nazis smashed the synagogue’s door and threw benches and Jewish artifacts out the building’s windows. Na

Frankfut newspaper announcement: The Münzenberg town administration announces a memorial event on November 9th. "I used to climb to the top of the tower and roll down steep hills. It drove my parents crazy." These are the memories of a young woman from Münzenberg of her idyllic childhood. What followed was horrific: Gerda Katz had to leave her home at just 13 years old, fleeing Nazi terror to the USA in 1938. Her life, a story of hope and loss, is the focus of the memorial se

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