Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen

Events

Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum

80th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Prisoners of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

04. May 2025

9:30 AM: Interfaith Service
Event Room (former prisoner laundry building)

10:00 AM - 1:30 PM: Interactive Station - Together, We Create a Work of Art, with Relatives of Nazi Victims
At the former roll call square

11:00 AM: Testimony Talk with Jerzy Zawadzki, Survivor of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Event Room (former prisoner laundry building)
Registration at aegerter@gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de by April 24.

2:00 PM: Welcome to the Decentralized Memorial Event
Place in front of the New Museum

Prof. Dr. Axel Drecoll, Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
Andreas Meyer-Schwarz, Vice President of the International Sachsenhausen Committee

Sachsenhausen Song: Frieder Kurbjeweit and Naima Tiné, Socialist Youth of Germany – The Falcons

Afterwards, decentralized memorial events at various locations of the memorial site (including the opening of a special exhibition by the Amicale française)

3:30 PM: Central Memorial Event
Memorial Site Station Z

Welcome
Prof. Dr. Axel Drecoll, Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
Dik de Boef, President of the International Sachsenhausen Committee

Speeches
Dr. Dietmar Woidke, Minister-President of Brandenburg
Dr. Richard Fagot, Survivor of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (Israel)

Moorsoldaten Song

Prayer
José Gaasch-Trauffler, President of the Amicale de Sachsenhausen (Luxembourg), Daughter of the Survivor Renée Trauffler
Kaddish
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama, Rabbi and Son of the Survivor Estrongo Nachama

Wreath Laying
Musical Accompaniment
Project Choir of the Berlin Choir Association e.V., conducted by Thomas Hennig

5:30 PM: International Meeting for and by Relatives (organized by the Friends of the Sachsenhausen Memorial and the ISK)
Plenary Room, BIZ
Please register at foerderverein-sachsenhausen@patese.de

7:30 PM: Memorial Event by the Dutch Embassy for National Remembrance Day
New Museum
Note: The event will be conducted in Dutch and will not be translated.

 

 

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