Exhibition opening in the city library Konz

Exhibition about the struggle for survival of Jewish deportees from the region with a final concert

Photo: (from left to right) musician Helmut Eisel, curator Dr. Pascale Eberhard and Mayor Joachim Weber

It was a fateful day for the Jews from the region: on October 16, 80 years ago, several hundred people of Jewish faith were snatched from their lives. The National Socialists deported them to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in Poland.

How was life there? What did the people in the ghetto have to endure? The exhibition on the occasion of the anniversary, which has now opened in the city library in Konz, deals with this. The posters include letters and photos that tell of the everyday life of the deported people. For example, they report on Martha Levy, a Jewess who was born in Konz. She and her family had already mastered a number of moves. But the conditions in the ghetto were very different. Unheated rooms shared by several families. “Everyone had to make do with the daily watery ration of soup; the "most nutritious" was the bread ration that was distributed every 10 days at the food distribution point," says Dr. Pascale Eberhard. She is an expert on Jewish history in the region and put the exhibition together.

The mayor of the city and municipality of Konz, Joachim Weber, and the musician Helmut Eisel also attended the opening of the exhibition. The clarinetist is known for klezmer music, a style of music that comes from the Jewish tradition. He accompanied the opening musically and also directs a music project with the Konzer Gymnasium. At the end of the exhibition, the students Wednesday, October 27 at 7 p.m , a concert in Ceremonial hall of the Karthaus monastery . (Details to be announced.)

If you want to visit the exhibition, you can always do so during the opening hours of the city library. A guided tour will on Thursday, October 14, 2021 at 11 a.m offered. Advance registration is requested. Guided tours for schools take place outside of opening times by arrangement with the curator. The exhibition is funded by the federal program “Live Democracy!”

"Now we know how beautiful home was: The struggle for survival of Jewish deportees from Luxembourg and the Trier region in the Litzmannstadt ghetto, letters, photos, documents, 1942" is a traveling exhibition. From November 2nd, 2021 it can be seen for four weeks in the bell foundry in Saarburg.