Tag: NS Documentation Center
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is awarded the Georg Elser Prize – Munich
How closely emotions are connected was demonstrated at the Georg Elser Prize award ceremony. The Eritrean writer Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was honored for her commitment against undemocratic structures. The city…
German-Lithuanian remembrance project “Up the hill” in the Fat Cat – Munich
From the Jewish camp on Knorrstrasse in Munich up to Fort IX in Kaunaus/Lithuania: Twelve young people from Munich took this journey under the artistic direction of Dorothee Janssen and…
Mirjam Zadoff’s volume of essays: “Violence and Memory” – Culture
In her book “Violence and Memory” Mirjam Zadoff examines how wars, injustice and oppression are remembered worldwide. Anne Frank is the most famous teenager in the world. Maybe because there…
Munich: Discussions and lectures about migration and human rights. – Munich
Persecuted, arrested and tortured. The Iranian writer Mohammad Reza Haj-Rostambeglou is one of many who has experienced incomprehensible suffering because of his protest against censorship. As a scholarship holder of…
Munich: Neuaubing forced labor camp – a contemporary witness returns – Munich
The Dutchman Teunis van Houwelingen had to work as a forced laborer in Neuaubing during the Nazi era at the age of 18 – he only told his family about…
Bavaria receives 52 million euros for memorial sites of the Nazi era – Bavaria
Bavarian places of remembrance of the horrors of the Nazi era are to receive more than 51 million euros from the federal government. The federal government is funding the preservation…
Here we witness – culture
When the Russian army’s shells hit, people had already fled to safety. But what the force of the impacts and the fires did not destroy, the soldiers took care of:…
These new exhibitions in Munich are worth visiting – Munich
Rarely have so many exhibitions opened this year in Munich. Anyone who thinks that the museums are now running out of breath is very wrong. What else is there to…
Munich: NS-Document Center honored with Grimme Online Award – Munich
For some time now, the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism under director Miriam Zadoff has been breaking new ground in its work on remembrance. On the…
Munich: The NS documentation center wants to go innovative ways – Munich
The NS Documentation Center not far from Königsplatz has recently expanded its team of helpers by four people: in future you can also be guided through the exhibitions by Hans…