Articles about the role played by memorials and other instituions in helping descendants deal with their family history.
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 photos. Of course, my father Jules also became a topic. During the Second World War, my father worked at OIP (‘Société Belge d’Optique et d’Instruments … Read more
Hewad Alikhil and Cindy Tian are the camp leaders of this years International Summer Workcamp at Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, that is organized by the Service Civil International (SCI). Hewad and Cindy wrote an article about the voluntary work of the 12 participants from all over the world and what motivated them to travel to … Read more
Now we see the bigger context.” I am a student of memorial culture, with a focus on how Germany and Russia deal with their past. I have visited many memorials of former concentration and extermination camps in Germany and Poland. I visited the Russian Museum of the Great Patriotic War. I have talked to different survivors. … Read more
There are probably archives where visitors are considered a nuissance. Here we gladly meet with them. This is how Dr. Reimer Möller, head of the archives of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, describes his work. In fact, more and more relatives of former Neuengamme concentration camp prisoners now come to the archives to find out more … Read more
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