In these days we learn that a son of our town in the lovely mountains of the Corrèze is buried. Died not a natural death, but as resistance fighters against Nazi barbarism, after they had driven him at the age of 18 years from his home.
Josef Wertheim shared this fate with many other young
people from his hometown, but he took it not to be made from his pursuers to
mindless tool. He joined the resistance, thus following the example of other men's homes in exile in the English Civil War, in bestzten France or in the countries of the East fought the Nazis.
The name Josef Wertheim is on a par with other Mannheimer, who preferred the resistance of the submission: Karl Heinz for example, who had joined the resistance in the Cevennes and 28 May 1944 in La Borie was getätet. or Marianne Cohn, hundreds of endangered Jewish children across the Swiss border saved and paid with her
young life. Or exhaled the members of the group Lechleiter
their lives under the guillotine.
They should be role models for youth, outlawed in a different Germany, the genocide and chauvinism to the construction of a European Community, to seek friendship with its neighbors.
I am grateful therefore for all
present, but above all the friends and fellow militants Josef Wertheim's that the memory of their comrades and maintain geen us the opportunity to honor this brave young man from Mannheim, who gave his life for the victory over tyranny began.
Dr. Peter Kurz
Lord Mayor of Mannheim
present, but above all the friends and fellow militants Josef Wertheim's that the memory of their comrades and maintain geen us the opportunity to honor this brave young man from Mannheim, who gave his life for the victory over tyranny began.
Dr. Peter Kurz
Lord Mayor of Mannheim
