Never forget!
How Germany keeps the memory of the Holocaust victims alive and is committed to reconciliation.
“Committed to life”
Sophie Scholl would have turned 100 on 9 May 2021. The biographer Maren Gottschalk talks about the resistance fighter and her relevance today.
North America
Remembering the horror
US President Biden has visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site several times – and also viewed it critically. An attempt at clarification.
Europe
What remembrance needs
How can the Holocaust remain tangible for today’s young people? A Europe-wide remembrance programme has some interesting ideas.
Online Commemoration
Because of the Coronavirus: Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day is taking place online. Amongst the events will be these moving moments.
Israel
75 faces, 75 years on
Martin Schoeller gives the Holocaust a face. In a new exhibition he presents portraits of 75 survivors. These are their stories.
November 9: Day of Fate in Germany
1918, 1923, 1938, 1989: In German history, four major events had a massive impact on the country's political situation.
Europe
Vibrant Culture of Remembrance
Crimes of the Nazis - an interactive map of the places of remembrance
Poland
Remembrance as a perpetual admonition
On 27 January the world commemorates the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz 75 years ago. Some eyewitnesses are still alive and can tell their story.
Israel
“Words are not enough”
46 heads of state, a clear signal: At the 5th World Holocaust Forum politicians from around the world launch an urgent call to fight anti-Semitism.
“It is now our responsibility”
A schools competition aimed to shed light on the darkest chapter of German history. These moving projects are the result.
Voices to remind us
It is now 80 years since Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass – and memories are gradually fading. Experts warn against letting this happen.
Lest we forget
Coming together at the scene of horror: Young people from all over the world meet in Dachau, where the Nazis murdered tens of thousands of people.
Cobblestones for Holocaust Victims
Plaques installed by the artist Gunter Demnig commemorate the victims of Nazi persecution.
Discussion about religion and conflicts
Religion and conflicts in everyday life in Germany: four people for whom religion plays a major role in their lives, two hours of discussion – and, at the end, a cautious insight
Preservation of remembrance
Germany and Israel have set up a close working relationship in the area of researching the Shoah. A main recipient of this multifaceted support is Yad Vashem, Israel's living memorial to the Holocaust.
Comics for remembrance
The project called “We will call out your name” lets Holocaust victims live on.
Against hate and fear
Over 80 years separate Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander and two school students from Berlin. What do they have to say to each other?
Holocaust survivors remember Auschwitz
70 years ago the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
Culture of remembrance
Professor Aleida Assmann describes the changing attitude towards remembrance 70 years after the end of the Second World War.
Berlin initiatives for tolerance und religious diversity
Berlin sets an example: how people in Germany promote tolerance and religious diversity becomes especially clear in the German capital
Remembering the victims of the Holocaust
Young people perform voluntary service in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Luisa Lehnen spent a year working in a museum near Auschwitz. An interview.
City of Human Rights
Nuremberg is facing up to its history and would like to become a model of commitment and humanity.
Protecting human rights
Protecting human rights and promoting universal respect for them is a central task of German foreign policy.
Four faces, four stories
They come from Israel, they live – at least for a time – in Germany and they actively support encounter and exchange
Jewish Life in Germany
Immigration and reorientation have changed Jewish society and culture in Germany and made it more diverse.
Having some falafel with a rap star
Germany's Federal Agency for Civic Education has been staging since 1963 successful and imaginative trips of study to Israel.