Commemoration in Munich on International Holocaust Commemoration Day: singing Stolpersteine, shining the Stolpersteine with 100s of high school students

January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

2 pm Loristraße 7, Munich

Shining the Stolpersteine for the Kohn family

Maria Luise Kohn was one of Munich’s most gifted artists. Her sister Dr. Elisabeth Kohn was one of Bavaria’s first female attorneys – and a great crusader for women’s rights and social justice.

Maria Luise and Elisabeth and their mother were murdered on November 25, 1941 in the Lithuanian town of Kaunas – along with 996 other Jews from Munich.

On International Holocaust Commemoration Day, 130 high schools students will shine the Stolpersteine for the Kohn family. They will read their biographies (and those of other victims of Kaunas), and recite poems created by female Jewish freedom fighters.

345 Stolpersteine in Munich. 130,000 Stolpersteine in 1800 cities in 32 countries. The world’s project of Holocaust commemoration.

6 pm Museum of Egyptian Art Munich

The Singing Stolpersteine

Hundreds of people will join to sing “Name on the Stolperstein” – the anthem of the Stolpersteine movement.

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It was composed by Gideon Sperling, from Riga, whose parents survived 8 and 9 concentration camps. The lyrics were written by Terry.

We will sing for the Stolpersteine, and what they have wrought: the European-wide commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust – and the mobilization of support for Judaism.