Changing Remembrance
Remembering the Jewish retirement home at Gerlachstraße – intervention in the urban space
The focus of the event at Berolinastraße in Mitte was on the residents of the Jewish retirement home at Gerlachstraße 18/21, commemorating their fate during the Nazi regime in Germany.
As an artistic intervention for one day, the US American artist R. Stein Wexler and local residents drew the floor plan of the former retirement home – where the residents were picked up and deported to the Nazi extermination camps – on the pavement of Berolinastraße. The motto was: “To remember is to think the future.”
The project was supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Find out more on the event website
The participatory commemorative event was recorded in a documentary by Harebella Suzuki: