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In 1939 the German-Jewish Birnbaum family ended up at Camp Westerbork in the East of the Netherlands, near the German border. Father and Mother Birnbaum cared for German-Jewish children who…

Due to the corona pandemic, also this year the victims of the bombing of the Lübeck Bay on May 3rd, 1945 can not be commemorated publicly in Neustadt. Instead, the…

As part of the commemoration of the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, a (digital) postering event will take place at the Space to Remember on Sunday,…

Very impressive! – I am pleased to join this special day by Zoom from Brisbane, Australia. – I wish I could be with you in person! Accompanied by congratulations from…

In 2016 Maryse Kluck wrote a letter to her great-grandfather Anton van der Lugt who she never met because he had died in a German concentration camp.

We have reflected on previous occasions on initiatives aimed at repairing the damaged social fabric caused by direct, cultural and structural violence, such as the Spanish Civil War (1936) and…

Barbara Brix has been engaged in memory culture for years. In 2006 she began to deal with her father’s history during National Socialism in more detail than before. As a…

Due to the precautionary measures against the spread of the coronavirus, the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial had to cancel the commemorative events on the 75th anniversary of the liberation. The…

His parents, Herta and Carlheinz, already joined resistance groups against National Socialism as teenagers. Because of their political activities, they were first imprisoned already at a young age. In his…

Mykola Titow has been researching for many years on the history of his two uncles, who were deported to Germany as forced laborers during the Second World War and died…