“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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
On November 9th, the collective Voices of the Next Generations organised “Europe remembers”, the first paneuropean remembrance action to commemorate the November pogroms.
Louts and Mischa Lemaire talk about visiting the 77th anniversay of the Liberation of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
In Autumn 2021, around twenty descendants of survivors of the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp met for the first time in Oranienburg, near Berlin….