The municipal council of the university town of Marburg, overriding objections by local residents, voted unanimously last week to re-name a street in honor of Leopold Lucas, a Jewish theologian who died in the Theresientadt concentration camp in 1943.
Lucas was the founder in 1902 of an association for Jewish studies in Marburg. Householders on the street to be re-named for him protested that they did not want to be associated with Lucas or his fate. But Mayor Hanno Drechsler of Marburg replied that the street name will be a reminder of the thousands of other Marburg Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Lucas’ wife, Dorothea, died in Auschwitz in 1944.
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