Today the campaign starts with a banner at the university library showing a photo of Gertrude Luckner from the time of National Socialism. From left to right, almost unrecognized, Gertrud Luckner walks through the picture, slightly bent and with a heavy briefcase in her hand. On the way home from her place of work at the German Caritas Association in the “Werthmannhaus” – opposite today’s university library – she must have been home in Landsknechtstrasse. During the Reichspogromnacht, during which the Freiburg synagogue was burned down on what is now the “Old Synagogue Square”, Gertrud Luckner cycled for hours to visit Jewish families to warn them and give them a safe address. When Gertrud Luckner was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 – on a tip from an informant at the Caritas headquarters – she survived interrogations, concentration camps, and death marches only with a lot of luck and solidarity from other inmates. After the end of the war, she was in charge of the welfare service for the persecuted at the German Caritas Association and dedicated herself to the Christian-Jewish rapprochement.
Gertrud Luckner, born in 1900 in Liverpool as Jane Hartmann and an English citizen up to the age of 22, is an outstanding example of resistance against National Socialism in Freiburg. In 1966 the State of Israel honored her in Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, in 1979 she became an honorary citizen of Freiburg im Breisgau and a trade school in Freiburg bears her name.
As part of the campaign, further personalities are to be introduced who stand for an intercultural, solidarity and open Freiburg. Two to three other locations are in concrete preparation and should become visible in the extended anniversary year 2021.
Freiburg constituency 100% eV:
The Freiburg constituency 100% eV is a voluntary migrant self-organization that has been committed to the democratic participation of migrants in Freiburg, nationwide and internationally since 2002, and realizes cultural and historical projects.
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