Bayern Munich to remember victims of the Holocaust

Bayern Munich will pay homage to victims of the Holocaust on Sunday May 9th at Grünwalder Stadion per FCBayern.com:

The outer wall of the Stadion an der Grünwalder Straße, which was once FC Bayern’s home ground, is to become a place of remembrance. Every evening from 9pm until Sunday, 9 May, projections of photos will commemorate a total of 22 German athletes of Jewish origin who were persecuted and, in many cases, murdered after the National Socialists seized power.

Part of this campaign by the initiative ‘Faces for the Names’ are also five biographies with ties to Bayern. The images of honorary president Kurt Landauer, former youth official Otto Albert Beer, 1932 championship-winning coach Richard ‘Dombi’ Kohn, and members Heinrich Berliner and Wilhelm Buisson are to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. Landauer and Kohn survived in exile in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Beer was murdered in the Kauen concentration camp in 1941, Berliner committed suicide in 1940, and Buisson was executed for political reasons in the same year.

Bayern Munich president Herbert Hainer believe it is vital for the club to actively promote tolerance and togetherness.

“FC Bayern is a club that has always stood for tolerant, cosmopolitan togetherness. Antisemitism, hatred, violence and exclusion of any kind have no place in our world view or in our society,” Hainer said. “Initiatives like ‘Faces for the Names’ are important so that we all become aware again and again of the values that are elementary for a free, peaceful and sociable society. Being part of this campaign means a lot to FC Bayern.”