March 27, 2025, 6 p.m., Theater im Delphi, Gustav-Adolf-Straße 2, 13086 Berlin
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the memorial and the 25th anniversary of the foundation’s founding, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe invites you to the Theater im Delphi on March 27, 2025, at 6 p.m.
Upbeat: »Documentation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe« (SWR)
Conversation: “The monument in the heart of Berlin” Bärbel Bas, President of the
German Bundestag and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation,
Lea Rosh, initiator of the memorial, Frank Hertweck, editorial director, SWR
Uwe Neumärker, Director of the Foundation for Monuments
Animated film: “I believe in love …”
Discussion on the film with Dagmar Manzel and Dr. Ulrich Baumann
Animated film: “The Colonel and the Photos”
Discussion about the film with Britta Wauer and the Limbus collective
Moderation: Knut Elstermann
Music: Carol Schuler, Yuriy Gurzhy
Reception
Admission begins at 5 p.m.
Please register by March 25, 2025 at veranstaltungen@stiftung-denkmal.de .
We are looking forward to an evening of encounters with long-standing and youngest companions.
Background:
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 monument 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. In accordance with its legal mandate to “ensure the memory of all victims of National Socialism and their appreciation”, the Foundation is in charge of the Memorial to the Persecuted Homosexuals (2008), the Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe (2012) as well as the Memorial and Information Centre for the Victims of the National Socialist “Euthanasia” Murders (2014) and the Memorial to the Persecuted and Murdered Jehovah’s Witnesses adopted by the Bundestag in 2023. The Foundation’s travelling exhibitions commemorate the victims of Nazi military justice (2007) and “The Denied”, persecuted as “asocials” and “career criminals” (2024).
