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.
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
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.
Young Interventions – Untold (Hi-)stories Exhibition Opening
Stefan and Mischa Lemaire were present during the opening of the exhibition Young Interventions 20-22 in the Memorial Sachsenhausen on a special day: 116 years ago their Grandfather Jan Lemaire Jr. was born on November 19.
Voices of the Next Generations takes action: Europe remembers!
On November 9th, the collective Voices of the Next Generations organised „Europe remembers“, the first paneuropean remembrance action to commemorate the November pogroms.
77th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Louts and Mischa Lemaire talk about visiting the 77th anniversay of the Liberation of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
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.
Report from Symposium Next Generations in Dialogue: The Future of Remembrance
In Autumn 2021, around twenty descendants of survivors of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp met for the first time in Oranienburg, near Berlin….