Excerpt from my address in Sobibor on October 14, 2003
(60th anniversary of the Sobibor uprising):
“Certainly these stones cannot express the infinite, mental and physical suffering that every single person had to endure. But each stone should tell us – not 180,000 people were murdered here, no, one person was murdered – and that has happened 180,000 times in this place of Sobibor alone! The Kassel administrative region also came to an end May / beginning of June 1942 over 500 Jewish people were deported via Lublin to Sobibor and on Murdered June 3 on the day of her arrival ”.
The memorial avenue also keeps alive the memory of the victims from our region North Hessen. So, in the meantime, with the help of many donations, memorial stones for murdered from Vokmarsen, Vöhl, Breuna, Kassel and Gudensberg have also been erected.