Category: News
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Memorial Site Alter Leipziger Bahnhof: The current situation
The “Alter Leipziger Bahnhof” (Old Leipzig Railway Station) is one of the central locations of Nazi crimes in Dresden. On January 21, 1942, around 300 Jewish people were deported from here to the Riga ghetto, many of whom were later murdered. For decades, this place remained out of the public eye – both spatially and…
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Press release: Dresden CDU city council faction blocks funding for Alter Leipziger Bahnhof memorial site
The development of the memorial, learning, and meeting site at the “Alter Leipziger Bahnhof” (Old Leipzig Railway Station) is on the brink of collapse. Due to the blockade by the CDU city council faction, there is no majority in the city council to approve the planned budget funds. This means that the funds earmarked for…
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Guided tours for school groups to the exhibition “TRANSIT – Images from Exile”
From January 8 to February 8, the Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof (Friends of the Old Leipzig Railway Station) will be showing the exhibition “TRANSIT – Pictures from Exile” in the rooms of the Zentralwerk e.V. It brings together works by the Argentine-Jewish artist Mónica Laura Weiss, which deal intensively with the themes of persecution, flight,…
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The Concept for memorial site has been published
An important step on the way to creating the Alter Leipziger Bahnhof memorial and meeting place The Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof (Alter Leipziger Bahnhof Support Group) has published the concept commissioned by the city of Dresden for the future memorial, educational, and meeting place on the site of the former Dresden-Neustadt freight station. The concept…
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March 8, 2024: Stumbling block laid in commemoration of the deportations
On March 8, 2024, a stumbling block (“Stolperschwelle”) was laid at the entrance to the former Dresden-Neustadt freight yard, from where the deportation transports departed between 1942 and 1944, in memory of the deportation of people persecuted as Jews.