We spoke to some of the descendants that are active members of the national organizations of the AIN to find out more about their family history, how it has shaped them and their commitment to a lasting culture of remembrance.

I have been researching my family history for years and in this context I have spent many hours in various archives and immersed myself in all kinds of documents and…

I could write a lot. I could recount the grey stories of the concentration camps and the post-war period, which are still incredibly distressing and painful today. I could mention…

My name is Margit Grome, and I am the daughter of Erik Holger Grome. He was a member of the resistance movement in Denmark and a prisoner in the Neuengamme…

On May 2, 2024, the working group “Ort der Verbundenheit” (Space to Remember) once again hosted an open printing workshop for relatives of former inmates followed by a public poster…

Although social and political activism of Roma* and Sinti*[1] living in Germany is no longer a marginal phenomenon, Roma* activism as a whole receives little attention from the media or…

I found Monika in autumn 2020. She has lived in the UK for many years and was born in Poland. She is a qualified English teacher and works now in…

Special thanks to Beate Klarsfeld for her contribution to this article. The period after the end of the Second World War in the Federal Republic of Germany was characterised by…

For my PhD dissertation, I have been conducting oral history interviews with grandchildren of Jewish Holocaust survivors in the United States and Germany since July 2023 with the goal of…

Relatives of former prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp are once again invited to honour their persecuted family member with a poster. Since the opening of the Space to Remember,…