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 arrived at this then refugee camp without their parents. In this way an orphanage barrack was created, where the family tried to make life bearable … Read more
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 following online events are available on May 3rd, 2021: Silent commemoration without guests at the memorial in Neustadt-Pelzerhaken. The commemoration will be broadcast live here … Read more
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, May 2nd 2021 in the time from 4-4:45 p.m.. Due to the Corona pandemic, the event takes place online. Unfortunately, only a few helpers can … Read more
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 many countries, we officially opened the “Space to Remember” on November 13, 2020. Despite the Corona pandemic, several dozen guests were able to be present … Read more
Finally, the time has come: on Friday, November 13, 2020 at 11 am we want to inaugurate the ‘Space to Remember, Connect and Support’ on the grounds of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. We have been working towards this date for a long time and had to postpone it again in May this year due … Read more
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 the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975) or the Rwandan Civil War (1990-1994) and the systematic massacres that occurred in that context (1990-2000)¹: the shadows of these individual … Read more
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 doctor, he was part of the so-called “Einsatzgruppen” (task forces) responsible for the murder of countless people in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Together with two … Read more
One of the goals of the Stichting Oktober 44 is staying in touch with the relatives of the victims of the Putten raid that took place on the 1st and 2nd October 1944. The story of the raid of Putten – Putten is a village situated at the Veluwe, an extensive forest area in the … Read more
Maria Grazia Gori Casati grew up without getting to know her father Italico. He died in a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp in April 1945. In 2017, 73 years later, Maria and her husband Mauro decided to travel to Germany, to the places her father was imprisoned by the Nazis – Dachau, Neuengamme and … Read more
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