New Release: Documentation of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
Unter dem Titel „Vielfältiges Erinnern für die Gegenwart“ versammelt die neu erschienene Broschüre Stimmen und Berichte von den Gedenkveranstaltungen, die im Mai 2025 anlässlich des 80. Jahrestages der Befreiung der Konzentrationslager in der KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme und an anderen Orten in Hamburg sowie in Neustadt in Holstein stattfanden.
Entitled “Diverse Remembrance for the Present,” the newly published brochure brings together voices and reports from the commemorative events that took place in May 2025 for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and other locations in Hamburg and Neustadt in Holstein.
It documents the diverse forms of remembrance 80 years after the end of the war, which were organized by committed individuals: from a survivor of Neuengamme to many descendants of persecuted people, to employees of the Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centers Foundation to various civil society initiatives and municipal and supraregional cooperation partners from society and the political sphere.
In addition to the central commemorative events, in which Helga Melmed, a survivor of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, also participated, the contributions in the brochure document numerous new, participatory, and creative forms of communication and participation – such as the involvement of relatives of former concentration camp prisoners at the “Ort der Verbundenheit” (Place of Connection), the diverse civil society contributions in the “Zelt vielfältiger Erinnerung” (Tent of Diverse Remembrance), and the participatory readings “Stimmen der Befreiten” (Voices of the Liberated) with numerous cooperation partners and active participants in the Hamburg urban space. The brochure thus illustrates how valuable it is to shape remembrance together with as many groups as possible in our pluralistic society.
The brochure, designed in German and English, was produced with the support of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.