Five thousand young persons, most of them members of West German trade unions, attended special memorial ceremonies this weekend for the victims who perished in the Dachau and Flossenburg concentration camps.
At the site of the Dachau camp, 2, 000 members of the Bavarian Youth section of the German Trade Unions walked in a silent procession to the former crematorium in which countless Jews died. A group of Jewish youth laid wreaths at the gravesides. In an address at the ceremony trade union leader Ludwig Rosenberg called on Germany’s youth never to forget what had happened. In Flossenburg, 3,000 young persons walked with lighted torches to the site of the former camp.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
