Activism

2006 (25.7.) Naming no Shaming, an action organ­ised by Tanya Ury on the Danube – Budapest, Hungary, next to the Holo­caust memo­rial ​“Iron Shoes on the Shores of the Danube” with a small group of 20 Budapest Hungar­ians and Rabbi Tamas Vero, who said a prayer, an unof­fi­cial plaque with the wording (in Hungarian): ​“In memory of the Jewish citi­zens who were shot into the Danube by Hungarian fascists in 1944.” was fastened into the ground, where the offi­cial plaque omitted to mention that victims were Jewish. The action was, docu­mented with photographs by Istvan Javor.
2010 (31.10) Tanya Ury reads you walk back­wards with Artists Read for Freedom, Soli­darity Event for the Cologne Writer Dogan Akhanli, 6 pm Forum Volk­shochschule in the Museum Raut­en­strauch-Joest, Cäcilien­straße 29– 33, Cologne (D)
2014 (1.9.) Tanya Ury speaks, as repre­senting member of Euro­pean Jews for a Just Peace at the anti-war demon­stra­tion, 6 pm, on the Dom Cathe­dral Square, Cologne (D) www.zivilklausel.uni‑k…
2017 (26.7.) Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, spoke at ​“50 Years of Occu­pa­tion”, a day of action with the BDS Group Bonn (Boycott, Disin­vest­ment and Sanc­tions), DPG Bonn (German Pales­tinian Asso­ci­a­tion), the Pales­tinian Commu­nity in Bonn, and the Insti­tute for Pales­tine Studies, 2 pm, 17.6.2017, at Münster­platz, Bonn. A video docu­men­ta­tion of the speech can be seen at this link www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…, Neue Rheinische Zeitung,
2017 (23.9.) Tanya Ury gives an intro­duc­tion, in the name of The Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East Germany to the theatre piece ​“I won’t hate” by Izzeldin Abue­laish, adapted by Silvia Armbruster and Ernst Konarek. Direc­tion Ali Jalaly, stage Peter Busmann, with Michael Morgen­stern. Saturday 23.9.2017, 8 pm, Zentrifuge Theatre, Godes­berger Allee 70, Bonn-Bad Godes­berg (D)
2017 (15.11.) An article by Tanya Ury — member of The Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East Germany — on Michael Morgenstern’s role in the theatre piece ​“I won’t hate” by Izzeldin Abue­laish, a Pales­tinian doctor – to be presented in Munich 18th November 2017 in the Haus für Weit­er­bil­dung (House for Further Educa­tion), published in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (New Rhenish Gazette) Cologne (D) at this link (scroll down for English version): www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…
2017 (29.11.) An initia­tive of Euro­pean Jews (OneJJ) has been started for the hundredth anniver­sary of the Balfour decla­ra­tion (2.11.2017): the public handing back of our right of ​“return” to our ​“home­land” Israel (according to the Israeli Law of Return). A video clip by Tanya Ury is included in the #reject­la­wofre­turn project, and can be seen online at these links: onejj​.org/​y​o​u​r​-​s​t​ories… www​.youtube​.com/​watch?…
2017 (16.12.) Tanya Ury of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, spoke at ​“Freedom for Jerusalem! Freedom for Pales­tine”, a day of action with the BDS Group Bonn (Boycott, Disin­vest­ment and Sanc­tions), DPG Bonn (German Pales­tinian Asso­ci­a­tion), the Pales­tinian Commu­nity in Bonn, and the Insti­tute for Pales­tine Studies, from 2pm at Martin­splatz, Bonn (D) The speech was published on Abi Melzer’s der SEMIT blog at this link: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…
2018 (19.5.) Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, gives a speech including a poem, at ​“70 Years of Nakba”, a day of action with the BDS Group Bonn (Boycott, Disin­vest­ment and Sanc­tions), DPG Bonn (German Pales­tinian Asso­ci­a­tion), the Pales­tinian Commu­nity in Bonn, and the Insti­tute for Pales­tine Studies, 2 pm, at Münster­platz, Bonn (D)
2018 (26.5.) Tanya Ury gives an intro­duc­tion, in the name of The Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East Germany to the theatre piece ​“I won’t hate” by Izzeldin Abue­laish, adapted by Silvia Armbruster and Ernst Konarek. Direc­tion Ali Jalaly, stage Peter Busmann. Actor Michael Morgen­stern. Saturday 26th Mai 2018, 8 pm, Im Theater der Keller, Kleingedankstraße 6, 50677, Cologne (D)
2018 (8.) Tanya Ury’s activist activ­i­ties as a member of The Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Germany referred to on the German The Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Germany website de​.wikipedia​.org/​wiki/…
2018 (10.11) Tanya Ury’s poem anima 19 (20.05.2018), recorded by, and together with Kasander Nilist (double bass) and placed by Susanne Fasbender on her ​“Brand” (Fire) films blog. This blog is about the Hambach Forest in North Rhine-West­phalia, the police and German energy company RWE’s brutal deal­ings with the tree activists – who were demon­strating against defor­esta­tion for brown coal mining purposes — and the acci­dental death of Steffen Meyn on 19th September 2018, who was filming for a docu­men­tary on the Hambach Forest situ­a­tion brandfilme-blog.cabano… (D)
2018 (10.11) Tanya Ury’s poem anima 19 (20.05.2018), recorded by, and together with Kasander Nilist (double bass) and placed by Susanne Fasbender on her ​“Brand” (Fire) films blog. This blog is about the Hambach Forest in North Rhine-West­phalia, the police and German energy company RWE’s brutal deal­ings with the tree activists – who were demon­strating against defor­esta­tion for brown coal mining purposes — and the acci­dental death of Steffen Meyn on 19th September 2018, who was filming for a docu­men­tary on the Hambach Forest situ­a­tion brandfilme-blog.cabano… (D)
brandfilme-blog.cabano… (D)
2018 (24.11.) Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany, gives a speech including a poem – twenty per cent -, at ​“Soli­darity with Pales­tine”, a day of action with the BDS Group Bonn (Boycott, Disin­vest­ment and Sanc­tions), DPG Bonn (German Pales­tinian Asso­ci­a­tion), the Pales­tinian Commu­nity in Bonn, and the Insti­tute for Pales­tine Studies, 2 pm, at Münster­platz, Bonn (D) A photo docu­men­ta­tion can be seen at this link 

www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Arbeit­er­fo­tografie (New Rhenish Gazette, Workers Photog­raphy) (D).

www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit… (Video of Tanya Ury) www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit… (Poem by Tanya Ury)

2019 (27.01.) Tanya Ury has recorded several text state­ments in English trans­la­tion of 60 Roma or Sinti Holo­caust survivors for ​”Voices of the victims”, an online digital archive xident.de/vov-voices‑o…. This project was initi­ated by Karola Fings Deputy Director of EL-DE-Haus (Nazi Docu­men­ta­tion Centre) Cologne (D), as part of the RomArchive, Berlin which is devised as an inter­na­tional digital archive for art of the Roma – a constantly growing collec­tion of art of all types, comple­mented by histor­ical docu­ments and schol­arly texts, launched at this linkwww​.romarchive​.eu/de/c… (D)
2019 (27.2.) Tanya Ury’s letter (in German) to Prof Dr Beisiegel (Pres­i­dent of the George August Göttingen Univer­sity), Mr. Hald (Chair of the Göttingen Sparkasse Bank), Mayor Köhler, Prof Dr Neuneck (Professor of Peace Studies) and Dr Roehl (The Göttingen Peace Prize bene­fac­tors) regarding their preven­tion of the Prize being awarded to the Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East, Germany, on 9th March 2019, published online by Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Arbeit­er­fo­tografie (New Rhenish Gazette, Workers Photog­raphy) (D) at this link: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…
2019 (from 27.2.) Conscience 5, article (German: Gewissen 5) on the collapse of the Historisches Archiv (Histor­ical Archives of the City of Cologne) and its devas­tating conse­quences for the Ury family legacy, ten years on, by Ury, published together with Conscience 1 – 4, 2009, online by Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Arbeit­er­fo­tografie (New Rhenish Gazette, Workers Photog­raphy) (D) at these links: Gewissen (Conscience) 5 from 27.02.2019: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

Gewissen (Conscience) 1 from 07.03.2019: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

Gewissen (Conscience) 2 from 14.03.2019: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

Gewissen (Conscience) 3 from 20.03.2019: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

Gewissen (Conscience) 4 from 30.03.2019: www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

2019 (09.03.) Video: Accom­pa­nied by protests: Göttingen Peace Prize awarded. Tagess­chau (daily TV news show of the ARD) 9.3.2019: www​.tagess​chau​.de/mult…
2019 (28.4.) ​“We are a small but steady and vocif­erous voice – clear and loud.” Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany is invited tospeak on 28thApril (in English) about The Jewish Voice and its work, 12 am, 28thApril, at ​“The Deten­tion of chil­dren is a crime against humanity”, fifth­con­fer­enceof the Euro­pean Alliance in Defence of Pales­tinian Detainees, 27. – 28..April 2019, Maison des Asso­ci­a­tions Inter­na­tionales, Rue Wash­ington 40, 1050, Brus­sels (BE). Speech published (in German) 22ndMay, online by Neue Rheinische Zeitung, Arbeit­er­fo­tografie (New Rhenish Gazette, Workers Photog­raphy) at this link:www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…
2019 (13.9.) ​“We are a small but steady and vocif­erous voice – clear and loud.” Tanya Ury, of the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Near East, Germany speaks (in English) about The Jewish Voice and its work, 2:15 – 3:15 pm, 13thSeptember, at ​“Jewish Women: Being Present, Bringing Change”, theNinth Inter­na­tional Bet Debora Confer­ence of Euro­pean Jewish Women Activists, Acad­e­mics, Artists, Rabbis and Cantors, 13th-15thSeptemberHotel Palace, Belgrade (SRB)www​.bet​-debora​.net/act…
2019 (28.4.) ​„Es ist nicht Anti­semitismus, wenn über Menschen­rechte gesprochen wird“. Tanya Ury, Mitglied der ​„Jüdis­chen Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost“ (EJJP Deutsch­land), reagiert auf das Inter­view in der ​„Zeit“ (www​.zeit​.de/​p​o​l​i​t​ik/de…) vom 25.9.2019 mit Andreas Geisel, Poli­tiker (SPD) und Senator für Inneres und Sport in Berlin. Urys State­ment wurde (auf Deutsch) in der NRhZ (Neue Rheinische Zeitung), Arbeit­er­fo­tografie am 3.10.2019, unter diesem Link veröf­fentlicht:www​.nrhz​.de/​f​l​y​e​r​/beit…

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