his story, my future
Helena Koopman’s gouache painting reflects the transmission of her grandfather’s story.
To be a voice connecting between the horrible past and the present
Danielle Chaimovitz reflects on the reponsibility of descendants to remember and on a promise that she made to herself while attending the commemoration event on January 27 2023.
Six Voices from the Next Generations
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism on 27 January 2023, six descendants tell the stories of their relatives who were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.
Danielle Chaimovitz: “That is why I remember today”
Danielle Chaimovitz gave a speech on occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism at the Memorial Sachsenhausen on 27 January 2023
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 Meeting 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…