Outlook for 2025

For 20 years, Germany has been commemorating the up to six million victims of the Holocaust with the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The Memorial goes back to a civic initiative around the publicist Lea Rosh and the historian Eberhard Jäckel at the end of the 1980s. On 25 June 1999, the German Bundestag passed the resolution for the construction of the monument according to the design of Richard Serra and Peter Eisenman. The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was established 25 years ago, on April 6, 2000. Five years later, on May 10, 2005, the so-called Holocaust Memorial with the Information Center was handed over to the public.

On the occasion of these two anniversaries and in memory of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and liberation from National Socialism, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe invites you to several events starting in March 2025.

On March 27, 2025, at 6 p.m., an evening of encounters with companions will take place at the Theater im Delphi in Berlin . The event will be moderated by Knut Elstermann. A short documentary by SWR on the memorial and two animated films made together with partners about two fates depicted in the Information Centre will be shown. Bärbel Bas, President of the German Bundestag and Chairwoman of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Lea Rosh, initiator of the memorial, Frank Hertweck, editorial director, SWR, Uwe Neumärker, director of the Stiftung Denkmal, actress Dagmar Manzel, historian Dr. Ulrich Baumann, director and producer Britta Wauer and the Limbus collective will take part in the evening’s discussions.

From 8 to 10 April 2025 , the Federal Foundation for the Study of the SED Dictatorship, the German-Polish House, the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, the Foundation on Monuments and the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr will host an international conference on the European culture of remembrance on 8 May 1945 .

On April 29, 2025 , on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and the 20th anniversary of the Holocaust memorial, the new book “Future of Remembrance. The German Heritage and the Coming Generation” by Wolfgang Benz , spokesman of the advisory board of the Monument Foundation, at the Rhineland-Palatinate State Representation.

At the beginning of May , the Exhibition »… Peace at last”?! – 80 years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation from National Socialism . Die rund elf Ausstellungstafeln werden von der Ständigen Konferenz der NS-Gedenkorte im Berliner Raum gemeinsam mit Partnern — Kulturprojekte Berlin und dem Berliner Beauftragten zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur — erarbeitet. Die Ausstellung soll als Freiluftausstellung an zentralen Orten im Berliner Stadtraum gezeigt werden.

In addition, on June 4, 2025 , Nina Kunzendorf will read from Jeanette Wolff’s eyewitness account “Sadism or Madness” in the reading room of the library in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus . It is a joint event of the Stiftung Denkmal and the German Bundestag.