2003
Dedication of the Blue House
The “Friends of the Blue House” organized an information day in the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York to support the work in Breisach. Its members are Holocaust survivors, their descendants and friends, mostly in the USA.
In June, the renovated house was dedicated and given the name “Blue House.” During the inaugural week, guests from many countries came into conversation with students. On a day trip to Alsace, participants visited the oldest cemetery of the Breisach Jewish community in Mackenheim and the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.
One of many highlights of this week was a concert in the former synagogue of Réguisheim. The Chagall Quartet with Marat Dickermann performed works by Jewish composers who had been imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp outside Prague.
