A plaque was erected in Berlin to commemorate the only public protest by Germans against the Nazi persecution of the Jews. In February 1943, a group of German women demonstrated outside a Berlin community center where their Jewish husbands and children had been rounded up for deportation to the Auschwitz death camp. The 1,200 men and children held in the center by the Gestapo were released a week later and did not experience any further persecution. German Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis said the plaque memorialized what he described as a courage that is lacking in modern-day Germany.
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