Museum to be built to honour those who helped Jews during Holocaust
(7 May 2007) Berlin, 19 April 2007 1. Wide exterior of museum 2. Mid of portraits inside museum 3. Mid of room with door in front of secret room in the workshop 4. Mid of access to secret room 5. Close-up of photo showing Otto Weidt (left) and employees 6. Mid of workroom Berlin, 30 April 2007 7. Mid of Sylvia Ebel in her living room, pan to flowers 8. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sylvia Ebel, an 80-year-old retiree whose family helped fugitive Jews: "My mother never talked about whether she was afraid. No, I don't think so. We all knew that we would hang from the next tree in case they caught us - or the woman." 9. Close-up of hands 10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sylvia Ebel, an 80-year-old retiree whose family helped fugitive Jews, about her mother: "She was a humanist to the core, also following her own experience. She didn't actually come from moneyed homes. She knew hunger and persecution, too. And therefore she said that one has to help these people." 11. Close-up of photos Berlin, 18 April 2007 12. Gisela Jacobius holding documents and sitting down in chair 13. Close-up of menorah in Gisela Jacobius' living room 14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gisela Jacobius, a Jewish woman helped by Germans during the Nazi regime: "On January 9th, 1943, my parents and I left our home. The door was closed and we were outside, and we didn't know where to go anymore. We had indeed made arrangements, but to all intents and purposes we were outlawed and had no home anymore. We went to several stations then." 15. Gisela Jacobius looking at old passport 16. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gisela Jacobius, a Jewish woman helped by Germans during the Nazi regime: "Compared with the number of perpetrators there is only an evanescently small number of people who helped. Therefore I definitely think that it's good to have an exhibition dealing with this topic." 17. Close-up of passport signed with her then name "Zilla Scheer" Berlin, 17 April 2007 18. Close-up of sign German Resistance Memorial Centre 19. Mid of Johannes Tuchel working at his desk 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johannes Tuchel, historian and head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre in Berlin: "One of the most interesting results of our research is that there is no typical form of a "silent hero", that you have a lot of different forms of helping. This shows that in the Nazi era one was able to help a man or a woman who was persecuted, who was under the suppression of the Nazi regime." 21. Shelf with postcard of Otto Weidt's former workshop for the blind 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Johannes Tuchel, historian and head of the German Resistance Memorial Centre Berlin: " We are late in our research, but Germany needed time to accept that there were "silent heroes". So, we'll do our very best now when we'll open our exhibition in 2008." Berlin, 19 April 2007 23. Pan down of building exterior at 39 Rosenthaler Strasse with Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind, and future location of "Silent Heroes" Memorial Centre STORYLINE: Sixty-two years after the end of World War Germans who helped protect Jews from the Nazis are being honoured with a museum in Berlin. The "Silent Heroes'' museum is to open in 2008 in an old tenement building in the centre of Berlin. It will be based in Otto Weidt's former workshop for the blind, where several Jews survived in a secret room, and include two more floors that are currently vacant and still under renovation. Weidt helped his workers with forged papers, brought them food and even tried to get one of them liberated from a concentration camp after she had been deported. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
