Commemorative event on 17 June
The 62nd anniversary of the 1953 uprising in the GDR will be commemorated with a public memorial event in Chemnitz on Wednesday, 17 June. According to the Association of Former Political Prisoners, Association of Victims of Stalinism / Chemnitz District Group, the event is dedicated to the persecuted and victims in the Soviet occupation zone in the years 1945 to 1949 and later in the GDR and to the victims of dictatorship and tyranny in general.
Holker Thierfeld, Chairman of the VOS Chemnitz, will be speaking at the event.
The public memorial event, to which the people of Chemnitz are cordially invited, will begin at 11 a.m. with a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial stele on the site opposite the district court (Hohe Straße 23). The Halmstadt gneiss memorial stele erected there in 1999 bears the inscription "To the victims of tyranny 1945-1989".
The walk will then continue to the information board "Establishment of the Chemnitz-Kaßberg memorial site" to provide information about the current situation of the project.
Thanks to the Lern- und Gedenkort Kaßberg-Gefängnis e. V., guided tours of the former prison are planned from 9 to 10.30 am.
guided tours of the former prison are planned.
Contact: Holker Thierfeld, Chairman of VOS-Chemnitz, Müllerstraße 12, 09113 Chemnitz, phone 0371/ 808 23 810, e-mail Holker_Thierfeld@web.de