On the way to Regensburg
Regensburg…………this is a sculpture showing the iron curtain falling apart
They like to use their old buildings in new buildings
This is a shop that was previously a personal chapel…..see the center arches often found in chapels.
In the 1400’s there was a pogrom in Europe. One of the things we saw in several towns was that the Jews were either killed or forced out of town and their homes and temples were destroyed. Some towns made the area cleared into their town squares. Also some towns built churches on the foundations of the synagogues.
One town made a mistake. Recently the real foundation of the Jewish Synagogue found and a memorial has been erected.
Also, in the town of Regensburg, the Jewish cemetery was destroyed, and tombstones were used as trophies of the "victory against the Jews” and prominently displayed on walls of houses in Regensburg.
Our guide was very dismayed by this, which I think is a very good thing. (his being dismayed, I mean)
Also, we saw this plaque on a house.
It translates to:
“OSKAR SCHINDLER
saved, during the Nazi terrors, more than 1200 Jews from certain death. From November 1945 to May 1950, he was living in Regensburg, first in this mansion, and later in the old house Nurnberger Strasse 25.
Dedicated in the year 1995 the city of Regensburg.”
I didn’t know that he lived here.
Another mailman…..
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