| In Schweinfurt, there is a war
memorial for the fallen soldiers of both World Wars on Martin-Luther-Platz,
to the south of Johanniskirche. The insciption reads: DEM ANDENKEN DER IM
WELTKRIEG GEFALLENEN 731 SÖHNE DIESER STADT (in memory of the 731 sons
of this city who fell in the World War). The names of the fallen soldiers
are not listed. On the Jewish part of
the municipal cemetery, there are three gravestones which commemorate fallen
Jewish soldiers of World War I.
On one of the commemorative stone - below a
sphere - you will find the following inscription:
ALS PFLICHTGETREUER KRIEGER
STARB FÜR DAS
VATERLAND AM 7. MAI 1915 UNSER TREUER SOHN
THEODOR SILBERSTEIN GEB. 22.DEZ 1888
ERS. RESERVIST 4. Bay. RES.JNF.RGT.
(as a loyal soldier, he died for his country
...)
Next to it, on a further gravestone - below
military symbols - you see the following inscription in Hebrew an German:
IM KAMPFE UM DAS VATERLAND
FIEL AM
19. AUGUST 1917 BEI EGE...
UNSER LIEBER SOHN UND BRUDER HERMANN HAHN
GEB. 27. NOVEMBER 1896
UNTEROFFIZIER
(our dear brother and son ..... died in the
fight for his country...)
On the lower part of the gravestone for
Frau Marianne Cohn geb. Hommel, * 9. Juli 1860 24.Juni 1917, a plaque
has the following inscription:
am 12. Okt. 1918
Arthur Cohn
Kfm. aus Charlottenburg
gb. 9.6.83, Jnh. d. Eis. Kreuz
Gefr. im 335. Jnf.Rgt.
Beerdigt in Netley (Engl.)
am 23. Nov 1918
Alex Hanauer
Kfm. aus Charlottenburg
gb. 23.2.83, Jnh. d. Eis. Kreuz.
u. d. bad. silb. Verd. Medaille
Offz.Stellv. im pr. 24. Jnf.Rgt.
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