Stephan Fichtner
Voluntary Chair, Israel Bonds New Leadership in Germany

Dr. Anastassia Pletoukhina from the Jewish Agency for Israel in Germany speaking about surviving the attack on the synagogue in Halle with, Mr. Pascal Kober MdB (FDP) Federal Government Commissioner for the concerns of victims and survivors of terrorist crimes in Germany, and Mr. Stephan Fichtner, Voluntary Chair, Israel Bonds New Leadership in Germany.What does “terror” mean for people who survive an attack, for their relatives, their friends? What does it mean that Jews are singled out as targets of terror attacks? What does it mean for the Jewish community and the majority of the members of the society they are living in? How do you remember the victims of terror in a dignified way? And how do you recognize the circumstances of the attack without focusing just on the perpetrator?


Though those are questions perhaps being easily asked, the answers are hard to find, even for people involved, as well as survivors and their relatives. A week ahead of the 50th anniversary of the terror attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, New Leadership Germany together with Israel Bonds Germany organized a discussion about those issues in question.

Member of the German parliament (Bundestag), Pascal Kober, being responsible, as a member of the government, for the interests of the victims of domestic terrorism, together with Dr. Anastassia

Pletoukhina from the Jewish Agency Berlin, who survived the attack on the synagogue in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, on Yom Kippur 2019, had an impressive yet sensitive talk about the needs of victims and their relatives as well as the requirements the state has to meet.