Video: The Jewish Cemetery of Kriegshaber

Many thanks to Helga, the Delles family, Reverend Groll and Mr. Gruber from the St. Thaddäus Community, the Students of St. Stephan Gymnasium Augsburg, the neighborhood of Centerville, the Jewish Community of Augsburg and the members of the JHVA.

The Angel of Dead

A sort of solitude

 

Caused me to listen

To an unheard voice

 

The language of stones

Whispered illegible

Invisible, thrice

 

Stoned silence

Yells in the air

Each letter a siren

 

The fragments of life

Shattered in the mud

Faded dim-light stories

Of three flower buds

 

 

 

The Dead

They have chosen me

The Dead

They’ve singled me out

From the Living

To be

 

To be

their speaker

their messenger

their angel

 

Each of them

Is telling me

History

To be told

The Rabbis, the babies

The young and the old

 

Tell them

They say

Tell them:

I was someone

 

Tell them

They dun me

To tell you:

There has never been

Another time

 

The Dead do not praise

Neither the voiceless*

 

So I speak

Their plain speech of desire

So I speak words of wisdom

Although their voice

Never will be mine

 

Everything

I am speaking of

I am not

 

Since I am still alive

I am nothing

 

Even tough I speak

Because I speak

 

My hands are tied

My tongue is tired

 

 

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(Yehuda Schenef,

 dedicated to the Deads of Kriegshaber, Pfersee and Steppach at the Jewish Cemetery of Kriegshaber,

7th of Av 5768 )

 

(* Psalm 115.17)

פרידה לייב – לוי

in blessed memory and always unforgotten.

Her way was the longest

Frieda Loeb – Levi

30. Tishri

1908 – 2008

 

 

chag suckot someach – ein frohes Laubhüttenfest

Wir wünschen allen Freunden und Mitgliedern ein frohes, gesegnetes und koscheres Laubhüttenfest ..!

                                                                Lulav – Strauß mit Etrog (Bar Kochba – Münze, ca. 135 n.a.Z.)

Sicherheit für den Jüdischen Friedhof Kriegshaber

 

Als Maßnahmen zur Sicherung des Jüdischen Friedhofs in Kriegshaber haben wir heute, am Tag vor Jom Kipur in Absprache mit der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Schwaben Augsburg Videokameras zur Überwachung des Geländes, entsprechende Hinweisschilder und Absperrbänder angebracht.

   

“Jüdische Familien aus Pfersee und Kriegshaber”

 Vortrag:

„Grabsteine erzählen Orts- und Familiengeschichten“

Geschichten berühmter schwäbischer jüdischer Familien aus Pfersee, Kriegshaber und Augsburg und ihrer Nachkommen

Dienstag 28.10.08, 19.30 Uhr

Kath. Thaddäus-Zentrum

St. Wolfhard-Haus Madisonstr. 12