Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Relatives of former prisoners of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp from all over Europe create a ceremony for the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Block 46
The video ‘Block: 46’, considers the barrack where George Saxon’s late father Tadeusz Witkowski was housed during his internment at the former concentration camp at Sachsenhausen (1940 – 45).
Voices of the Next Generations : Remembrance in the era of the right to be forgotten
“Voices of the Next Generations” brings together descendants of prisoners from the former concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Its objective: To highlight new perspectives on remembrance, while the last direct witnesses of the Second World War are dying out one after the other.
Voices of the Next Generations 2022
Between 14 and 18 September 2022, we grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Jan Lemaire Jr. participated in the second meeting of Voices of the next generations in Oranienburg Sachsenhausen.
Interview with Viktor Eberl: Voices of the Next Generations
Through my grandfather, Dr. Edouard Calic, I learned a lot about the crimes of the Nazi regime and the “Third Reich” as a child. Because he was a prisoner of the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen and, after that time, dedicated himself as a historian and author…
The Inheritance of Memory
More than 200,000 people were imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1936 and 1945. Tens of thousands died from disease, starvation, forced labor, medical experiments, torture, gas chambers or were victims of SS executions…
Journalism as a coping mechanism
I visited Sachsenhausen for the first time during our autumn seminar, only a few months after my Grand-Dad Klaus had passed away…
Why we are still here
In order to examine, who we – the next generations – are and what we do, it is necessary to briefly explain what led us to our commitment and how we would like to pass this on in the future.
Jan Lemaire: Men in Zebra
From early 1942 until 1945 our grandfather Jan Lemaire was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. When we were 15, our grandmother gave us his book…