Maria Luft

Maria Luft is a researcher at the German Federal Institute for the Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Between 2018 and 2021, she also worked on the project “Topographie der Shoah in Breslau/Wrocław 1933-1949” at the BKM Junior Professorship in Social and Economic Networks of Germans in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

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Memorials in Wrocław

Remembering the Breslau Jewish community in the years prior to 1945.

The Jewish community in Breslau, which was the third-largest in the German Reich in 1925, was forgotten for many years. However, after 1989, new interest in local history began to emerge in Wrocław, Poland. Nowadays, monuments and a commemorative procession serve as reminders of the Jewish people...

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Memorials in Wrocław