At the train station in Würzburg, we had time to view the new memorial for the deportations that left from Würzburg during the Nazi regime.
Of the 2069 Jewish citizens who lived in Lower Franconia, just 63 survived the camps.

When I first came to Würzburg, I worked in Jewish Retirement home - there were just 6 residents.
Remembering Herbert Mai, who was just 12 years old when he was deported. He was one of the few survivors.
What happens to a society, when the mass murder of children is not just ‘acceptable’, but a planned and structured goal?
“It is a striking reminder that the mass murder of European Jews began in regional centers like this, in our midst”.
“With the way we act, each of us decides what kind of society we live in”.
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