CITY TOURS: Women in Moabit - Persecution and Resistance under National Socialism

Trille Schünke-Bettinger bei einer Stadtführung.

A series of city tours by historian Trille Schünke-Bettinger

The tours deal with individual fates, the resistance of women in Moabit and places of persecution.

Everyday life, coercion and resistance

After the transfer of power to the Nazis, there was a diverse resistance in the Moabit factories, in which women were also involved. A circle of older female workers collected money for the persecuted through "non-political coffee parties".

During the Second World War, forced laborers were deployed in many Moabit companies, including in Huttenstrasse and Turmstrasse. There was also forced labor and resistance to National Socialism at Moabit Hospital. The tour takes you to places of resistance and forced labor.

Dates

Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 6 p.m. and Saturday, November 30, 2024, 1 p.m

Meeting point

Square in front of Tiergarten town hall, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1

Women in Moabit - persecution and resistance under National Socialism (Moabit freight yard memorial)

The one and a half hour route leads to six places where women lived, worked and were active during the Nazi era. The individual stops refer to individual fates, such as that of Mathilde Jacob (1873-1943) - a close confidante of Rosa Luxemburg and the administrator of her estate. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Jacob maintained contacts with resistance fighters and, as a Jew, experienced increasing oppression and disenfranchisement until her deportation to Moabit. she was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943.

The tour ends at the Moabit freight station memorial. The former Moabit freight station was the largest of Berlin's three deportation stations. Around two thirds of all Jews living in Berlin at the time were deported to the extermination camps from there. The station formed the perfidious link between the arrests and internment in the so-called collection camps on the one hand and the killing factories in the East on the other.

Date

Saturday, September 7, 1 p.m.: Town Hall - Moabit freight station memorial site

Meeting point

Square in front of Tiergarten Town Hall, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1

Women in Moabit - persecution and resistance under National Socialism (Levetzowstraße)

The tour leads to six places connected with the lives of women, such as Helene von Schell (1903-1956). From 1942, the secretary living in Moabit hid the Jewish Foss family in her one-room apartment; at times there were up to nine people at a time.

The tour ends at the memorial to the former synagogue in Levetzowstraße, which was misused by the National Socialists as a collection camp for the deportation of Berlin Jews. One of them was Käte Neumann (1887-1943), who lived with her family at Jagowstraße 16 in Moabit. She and her family were arrested in February 1943 as part of the "factory action" and taken to the Levetzowstraße collection camp. From there, she and her son were deported from Moabit goods station to Auschwitz and murdered there.

Date

Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1 p.m.: Town Hall - Levetzowstraße memorial

Meeting point

Square in front of the Tiergarten town hall, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1

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Meeting point: Square in front of Tiergarten Town Hall, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1

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Next date:

• Date Saturday, 30/November/2024 13:00 bis 15:00
• Venue Mitte Museum
• Address Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin-Wedding