| A town names streets after infamous Anti-Semites, the university celebrates them, and Europe’s largest Neo-Nazi gathering takes place there every year. The workshop offers glimpses behind the scenes of Passau, where Hitler lived as a child, and 'restitution' is a farce.
I would like to cover the following cases (besides restitution): >
> Lazar Salzberg, a survivor of various concentration camps, sued for
>symbolic compensation in 1961. He asked the Free State of Bavaria to award I
>DM for his wife who was gassed in Auschwitz in 1943 and 1 DM for each of his
>gassed sons. Both petitions were denied for reasons of state. After all, his
>wife had not been his source of support back then, they said. Not only that,
>he had married again after the war.
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> A valuable collection of paintings that the Nazis robbed from Jewish
>owners and stored in the Oberhaus [former bishop's fortress] in Passau in
>1945 has still not been returned to the Jewish Community. When the Jewish
>Community inquired in writing in 1948 whether such assets had been preserved
>and where they were, a representative of the city maintained that nothing of
>this kind was available.
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> The family of the famous Senior Rabbi of Cracow and Warsaw, Dov Ben
>Meisels, are still waiting today for his manuscripts. They were stolen by the
>Nazis and stored in Passau at the end of 1944 as a component of the "Research
>Division for the Jewish Question," along with some 15, 000 other volumes. |
| Anna Rosmus, from Passau, Germany, is the real-life heroine of the film 'The Nasty Girl', who as a teenager, uncovered her hometowns hidden Nazi past. For 19 years she has dedicated her life to uncovering anti-Semitism and the Nazi past of her hometown. She has been presented numerous awards such as the American Society of Journalists and Authors Conscience-in-Media award, the Sarnat Prize from the Anti-Defamation League, the Tucholsky death mask, Holocaust Survivors & Friends Holocaust Memorial Award and the Galinski Prize, the highest honor by the German Jewish Community. She was featured in '60 Minutes'. Her publications include Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders; Pocking: End and Renewal; Exodus: In the Shadow of Mercy; Resistance and Persecution: Passau 1933-1939; Robert Klein, a German Jew looks back; What I think; Out of Passau. A biography, Anna Rosmus-The Witch of Passau, was published in 1994 by Hans Dieter Schütt. |
