28/01/2004
Anti-Semitism threatens all of Europe, Germans told
By The Associated
Press
....In Berlin, Arthur Obermayer, a Jewish-American philanthropist from Boston, honored six Germans who had preserved Jewish history in their own communities.
In her town of 13,000, Breisach am Rhein near the French border, Christian Walesch-Schneller spearheaded an effort to save a historic Jewish school from destruction and plans to create an educational center on Jews and other minorities.
"You're always
confronted with this discussion in Germany, with the ongoing anti-Semitism,
which you can sense in our town. It made me decide to get involved,"
she said. "I thought it would be worthwhile to try in such a small
town to reach out to people, to bring back the stories of the 250 Jews
who lived there in 1933."