TOT SIND NUR DIE, DIE MAN VERGISST ('Dead are just the ones, we forget')

Die Bornplatz Synagogue Foundation And the Jewish Community of Hamburg (k.d.Ö.R) invite you to a memorial service on the occasion of the Reichspogrom Night of 1938.

Anyone who remembers gives the victims a piece of presence - and stands against forgetting.

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Memory in the neighborhood

Between 1933—1945, thousands of Jewish people from Hamburg were disenfranchised, ostracized, abducted and murdered.
This year, our memory is particularly addressed to people from the Grindel quarter — neighbors whose lives, homes and families were destroyed.

We remember them — right where they lived.

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Past and present

Today, in 2025, anti-Semitism, hatred and exclusion are visible again.
In Hamburg, too, Jews are experiencing hostility and threats.
“Never again” is not a historic formula — it is an obligation for today.

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Remembering together

Hamburg stands up. Against anti-Semitism. Against hate and incitement.
For open, solidarity-based cooperation in our city.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2025

JOSEPH CARLEBACH-PLATZ

HAMBURG, 5 P.M. (Expected to end 5:45 p.m.)

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SPEECHES, PROJECTIONS, MUSIC and PRAYER.

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Contributors, among others

Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media

Philipp Stricharz, 1st Chairman of the Jewish Community of Hamburg K.d.ö.R.

Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky

Annika Mendrala, vocals and Carsten von Stanislawski, guitar

Peter Helling, presenter

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Bringing candles is welcome and encouraged.
The event also takes place when it rains.

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THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED BY THE HAMBURG DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND MEDIA.

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Join us in remembering the Gradenwitz couple who can be seen on our posters:

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Bertha Vera Gradenwitz and Albert Avraham Gradenwitz last lived in slide 31.

Both were persecuted and deported by the National Socialists — Albert to Minsk, later to several camps, Bertha Vera to Izbica in 1942.

Her daughter Margot was able to flee to England on a Kindertransport in 1939. The child survived — the parents did not.