Trümmerfrau

Isaac Kremer/ March 9, 2021/ / 0 comments

In German, for “women of the rubble.” In the aftermath of World War II, Berlin was in ruins. It’s population had been reduced by half, and nearly two-thirds of the city’s 2.3 million citizens were women. Many of these German women – known as Trümmerfrauen, worked hard to clean up and reclaim the city. In many cases, they cleared bomb-damaged areas through tough manual labor, separating usable bricks and construction materials from other debris. The Trümmerfrauen have been celebrated not only for their efforts to clean up the city, but for their role in rebuilding families and society in a city nearly destroyed by Nazism. Photo from National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton, Ohio, 2015. (National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, 2015)

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Isaac is a nationally acclaimed downtown revitalization leader, speaker, and author. Districts Isaac managed have achieved over $850 million of investment, more than1,645 jobs created, and were 2X Great American Main Street Award Semifinalists and a 1X GAMSA winner in 2023. His work has been featured in Newsday, NJBIZ, ROI-NJ, Patch, TapInto, and USA Today. Isaac is a Main Street America Revitalization Professional (MSARP), with additional certifications from the National Parks Service, Project for Public Spaces, Grow America (formerly the National Development Council), and the Strategic Doing Institute. He currently serves as Executive Director for Experience Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey.

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