https://www.auschwitz.info: Aktuelle Artikel https://www.auschwitz.info/ Die aktuellsten Meldungen vom Internationalen Auschwitz Komitee. de https://www.auschwitz.info: Aktuelle Artikel https://www.auschwitz.info/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif https://www.auschwitz.info/ 18 16 Die aktuellsten Meldungen vom Internationalen Auschwitz Komitee. TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:17:00 +0100 80th anniversary of the German occupation of Hungary and the deportation of the Hungarian Jewish families to Auschwitz http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/80th-anniversary-of-the-german-occupation-of-hungary-and-the-deportation-of-the-hungarian-jewish-fam.html Today, Auschwitz survivors around the world are commemorating 19 March 1944 when, eighty years ago,... Aktuelle Meldung Presseinformationen Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:17:00 +0100 Invitation to the reading by Christoph Heubner on 23.3.2024 http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/invitation-to-the-reading-by-christoph-heubner-on-2332024-3006.html The Förderverein für die Internationale Jugendbegegnungsstätte (IJBS) Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Polen...
"For more than four decades, Christoph Heubner has accompanied Auschwitz survivors and listened to them talk about their happiness and pain after "surviving". Almost soberly and yet poetically, he describes men and women with their agonizing memories that shape every relationship shape every relationship until old age."
wdr 3 book review

Program


Christoph Heubner - writer, Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee reads from his book "Als wir die Maikäfer waren".

Date:
Saturday, March 23, 2024 17.00

Place:
Gemeindesaal der Propsteigemeinde,
Nonnenmühlgasse 2,
04107 Leipzig

You are cordially invited to the reading and discussion.
The event is free of charge.

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IAC criticizes planned TV discussion between Thuringian CDU chairman Mario Voigt and Thuringian AfD top candidate Björn Höcke on 11 April http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/iac-criticizes-planned-tv-discussion-between-thuringian-cdu-chairman-mario-voigt-and-thuringian-afd.html Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, commented in... Aktuelle Meldung Presseinformationen Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:35:00 +0100 Invitation to a literary-musical remembrance of the Holocaust http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/invitation-to-a-literary-musical-remembrance-of-the-holocaust-3004.html The German Evangelical Church Community of Lisbon invites you to a literary-musical remembrance of... Literary-musical remembrance of the Holocaust The writer Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, tells almost soberly and yet poetically of the agonizing memories of the survivors of the extermination camps; memories of the pain and of the happiness of their lives "afterwards". For more than four decades, Christoph Heubner has accompanied survivors of Auschwitz and listened to what they have to say: words, feelings and images that accompany people throughout their lives. Time and again, they confront the self-imposed challenge: "Speak of those who are no longer able to speak!" The literary remembrance will be accompanied musically by the TRIOtoREMEMBER from Kassel. The musicians pick up on musical references from the stories and lend an additional dimension to the texts through their own interpretation. On this evening, let the memories move your hearts so that neither fear nor hatred can find a place there, but forgiveness and love can grow, in the spirit of the motto of the year for 2024: "Do everything in love." (1 Corinthians 16:14) After the event, you are invited to join us over a snack to meet, mix and talk with each other.

Programme

Literary-musical remembrance of the Holocaust with Christoph Heubner - writer, Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee Musical accompaniment: Trio to RememBer
Natsuko Inada (piano)
Detlef Landeck (trombone)
Jens Dembowski (saxophone) Date:
2 March 2024, 7 pm
Place:
German Evangelical Church Community Lisbon
Avenida Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, 48
1070-064 Lisboa
Portugal Entrance is free. Download the invitation (pdf in German)]]>
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March 1, 2024 in Lisbon: Literary-musical remembrance of the Holocaust. http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/march-1-2024-in-lisbon-literary-musical-remembrance-of-the-holocaust-3010.html As part of their event tour in Portugal, Christoph Heubner and the Trio to RememBer visited one of... Literary and musical remembrance of the Holocaust

The writer Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee, has accompanied Auschwitz survivors for over four decades and listened to what they have to say: Words, feelings and images that accompany people throughout their lives. Time and time again, they face the self-imposed challenge: "Speak of those who can no longer speak!"

The literary remembrance was accompanied musically by the "Trio to RememBer" from Kassel. The musicians picked up on musical references from the stories and gave the texts a further dimension through their interpretation.

Program


Literary-musical remembrance of the Holocaust
with Christoph Heubner - writer, Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee

Musical accompaniment: Trio to RememBer
Natsuko Inada (piano)
Detlef Landeck (trombone)
Jens Dembowski (saxophone)

Date:
March 1, 2024 21.00

Place:
Livraria Ler Devagar
Rua Rodrigues Faria. n.º 103 - ed. G 0.3
1300-501 Lisboa
Portugal

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Event "To Remembrance" at the German School Lisbon http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/event-to-remembrance-at-the-german-school-lisbon-3007.html As part of their event tour in Portugal, Christoph Heubner and the Trio to RememBer visited the... Program

Talk:
Christoph Heubner
– author, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee
Irene Pimentel, historian and author with a focus on the history of Portugal in the 20th century

Musical accompaniment: Trio to Remember
Natsuko Inada (piano)
Detlef Landeck (trombone)
Jens Dembowski (saxophone)

Date:
29 February 2024, 7pm

Place:
Auditorium of the German School, Lisbon
Largo Willy Brandt
1600-891 Lisboa
Portugal Download the invitation (pdf) Photos of the event]]>
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Book presentation in memory of the Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi at the Déri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary. http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/book-presentation-in-memory-of-the-holocaust-survivor-eva-fahidi-at-the-deri-museum-debrecen-hun.html The German Cultural Forum in Debrecen, Hungary, is presenting the Hungarian translation of the...

Program

Words of welcome:
Andrea Horváth, head of the German Cultural Forum, Debrecen

Opening:
István Puskás – Deputy Mayor of Debrecen
László Hunyadi – Honorary Consul of Israel

Talk:
Christoph Heubner – author, Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee
Zsuzsanna Iványi – translator
Andor Andrási – Éva Fahidi’s partner The discussion moderator is László Levente Balogh, university lecturer.

Musical accompaniment:
Gergő Csorba, guitarist
Zsuzsa Oláh, actress

Date:
22 February 2024, 5 pm – 7 pm

Place:
Déri Múzeum
Díszterem
4026 Debrecen
Déri tér 1. Entrance is free and without advance booking. The book can be purchased with a discount at the venue.

Books: "Kutyákat látok, akik feszítik a pórázt" Christoph Heubner
Wesley Publishing
ISBN: 9789639744622
First edition 12/2023 To the Hungarian book

"Ich sehe Hunde, die an der Leine reissen" Christoph Heubner
ISBN 978-3-95829-937-5
Steidl Verlag
First edition 04/2021 To the German book

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Book presentation in memory of the Holocaust survivor Éva Fahidi at the FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/book-presentation-in-memory-of-the-holocaust-survivor-eva-fahidi-at-the-fuga-budapest-center-of-arc.html Presentation of the Hungarian translation of the book "Ich sehe Hunde, die an der Leine reißen"... I see dogs straining at their leashes), Christoph Heubner lends his literary voice to the victims of the Holocaust in three quite different forms of stories. The book was translated into Hungarian by Éva Fahidi and Zsuzsanna Iványi and published by the Wesley Verlag. On 21 February 2024 the translator Zsuzsanna Iványi read passages from the Hungarian translation at the FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture. For many decades Christoph Heubner has accompanied survivors of the Nazi extermination camps. He has listened not only to their dreadful stories but also to their accounts of rescues and new beginnings. As a co-founder of the International Youth Meeting Centre Auschwitz he has met innumerable times with young people and passed on the stories and testimonies that survivors have entrusted to him.

Book presentation and reading

Talk:
Christoph Heubner
: Author
Zsuzsanna Iványi: Translator
Andor Andrási: Organiser
Gabor Iványi (Wesley Verlag): Editor
Júlia Váradi: Moderator Musical accompaniment:
Judit Lukacs
: Piano Date:
21 February 2024, 4:30 pm
Place:
FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture
Petőfi Sándor utca 5
1052 Budapest Books: "Kutyákat látok, akik feszítik a pórázt" Christoph Heubner
Wesley Publishing
ISBN: 9789639744622
1st edition 12/2023 To the Hungarian book
"Ich sehe Hunde, die an der Leine reißen"
Christoph Heubner
ISBN 978-3-95829-937-5
Steidl Verlag
1st edition 04/2021 To the German book]]>
Termin Aktuelle Meldung Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:10:00 +0100
Marian Turski on the death of Alexei Navalny http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/marian-turski-on-the-death-of-alexei-navalny-2983.html In the tradition of our European civilization - Prometheus was the first to sacrifice himself for... Marian Turski
Auschwitz Survivor
President International Auschwitz Committee]]>
Aktuelle Meldung Sat, 17 Feb 2024 19:00:00 +0100
Opening of the Gerhard Richter Birkenau Pavilion http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/opening-of-the-gerhard-richter-birkenau-pavilion-3001.html A powerful signal against oblivion: In Oswiecim/Auschwitz the Birkenau Paintings by Gerhard Richter... d Federal Minister for Special Affairs, together with Daniela Cavallo representing Volkswagen as chairwoman of the Group, General and local Works Council, and Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor and President of the International Auschwitz Committee, together with Sabine Moritz-Richter, the artist’s wife, Janusz Chwierut, President of the city of Oswiecim, and Krzystof Kleczar, Voivode of Lesser Poland. For Christoph Heubner, the opening of the exhibition marked the fulfilment of a long-standing aim. The desire to strengthen the position of the city of Oswiecim in the everyday combination of past, present and future, and to clearly show that the worldwide artistic confrontation with Auschwitz and the Shoah is being constantly renewed, and will also find its place here. Photos of the opening ceremony
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Presseinformationen Aktuelle Meldung Fri, 09 Feb 2024 23:57:00 +0100
taz interview with Marian Turski about ghetto photos http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/taz-interview-with-marian-turski-about-ghetto-photos-2991.html Marian Turski (98), President of the International Auschwitz Committee, and Chairman of the POLIN... taz: Mr Turski, as the representative of the POLIN museum of the history of Polish Jews, you received 23 photos from the Warsaw Ghetto a few days ago. What do these photographs depict? Marian Turski: The photos were taken by the German military hospital nurse, Helmy Spethmann. They show scenes from everyday life in the ghetto: streets, people waiting for something – maybe work, food, a bit of luck? It is very cold. It is raining and windy. Even so, the year of 1941 was not the worst by any means. You can see that trams were still running to ‘Muranow’. But other photos depict death, a burial close to the Jewish cemetery, or maybe even at the cemetery itself. A wooden hearse, grave diggers, emaciated corpses on stretchers, a rabbi. How important are these photos for the history of the Warsaw Ghetto? Marian Turski: They are enormously important. Indeed, all photographs that document the Holocaust are very important. But we distinguish photographs according to the intentions of the photographer. The photos, taken by the Propaganda Kompanie for SS Major General Jürgen Stroop, are important because we have no others documenting the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. But when German soldiers are shaving off the beards and sidelocks of Polish Jews, and the photographers eagerly click the button, the intention is clear: contempt and humiliation. But these pictures are important for us, because they depict stages in the process of dehumanisation and annihilation of the victims. And Helmy Spethmann. What kind of motive did a Wehrmacht nurse have? Marian Turski: That’s hard to say. President  Frank-Walter Steinmeier also addressed this question when he handed over the photographs. In a few letters to her sister in the German Reich, Frau Spethmann did briefly describe ‘the terrible misery in the Jewish quarter’ and the ‘off-limits infected area where entry was strictly prohibited’. In her letters she often wrote that she would like to tell more about it when she returned home. But it seems she never did that. And she hid the photos inside the flap of a photo album. It looks as if she was scared. It was not until she was on her deathbed that she gave the album to her niece. But can’t the photographer’s intention be deduced from the images? Marian Turski: I personally think that she took the pictures out of empathy with the Polish Jews, but then became afraid of the consequences of her own courage. When President Steinmeier handed us the 23 photographs, he quoted Rachela Auerbach, one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. I made a note of the quote: ‘The first cold days are whipping away those who were already living on the street, who had sold all their clothing and are now as feeble as the last flies in autumn. In vain the incredible life force of the Warsaw Jews. They will scream and fight back right up to the end, to the final hour and the last minute. But this hour and this minute will come.’ Steinmeier found the right quote, because this is exactly what Helmy Spethmann’s phographs tell us. Why did the family wait so long to give the ghetto photographs to Polin, or another Polish museum? Marian Turski: I don’t know. But as a Holocaust survivor I would like to say to all Germans, to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those who took part in the war: It’s not your fault. You inherited this history, just the way it is. But, my urgent appeal to you is: look inside the drawers, in old suitcases and photo albums! Maybe there are photos from Polish ghettos, or from German-occupied Poland in general. Don’t throw these photos and mementos away! They are of great value to us. The Polin Museum is grateful for even the smallest piece of evidence. This coming Saturday marks the 79th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz. What does this mean to you as a former Auschwitz prisoner? Marian Turski: For me personally, January 27, 1945 was still not the date of my liberation. That didn’t come until May 9, when, following two death marches from Buchenwald, I was liberated in Theresienstadt. I had typhus, was utterly exhausted and incapable of feeling even the faintest spark of joy. But in general, January 27 is the day of liberation for all of us Jews. At one of the recent remembrance ceremonies you called out to Europeans: ‘Do not be indifferent!’ Over the past few days hundreds of thousands of people have been taking to the streets in Germany to protest against the AfD. In Poland some twelve million people voted the governing far-right national populists out of office in October 2023. Is this what it all means to you? Yes, absolutely. The demonstrators in Germany have already understood that it’s essential to stand up against populists and anti-Europeans before they are able to destroy democracy. In Poland the situation is different. For eight years citizens had to watch as corruption spread and went unpunished, and the ruling Law and Justice Party undermined the constitutional state. Millions of Polish people realised that each individual can do something to save the Polish state. Never before did so many Polish people go to vote, more than 70 per cent of the eligible voters. I’m not saying this has anything to do with me. But yes, the Polish people have recognised that they cannot be indifferent, passive onlookers in face of such a disastrous course of events. It is far more important for them to individually take control of their own destiny and defend democracy. And that’s exactly what they have done.]]> Aktuelle Meldung Presseinformationen Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:09:00 +0100 79th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/79th-anniversary-of-the-liberation-of-auschwitz-2992.html In Berlin Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee made... Aktuelle Meldung Presseinformationen Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:41:00 +0100 A powerful signal sent out by the citizens and a boost for democracy http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/a-powerful-signal-sent-out-by-the-citizens-and-a-boost-for-democracy-2981.html Commenting in Berlin on the numerous demonstrations against the far-right in Germany, Christoph... Presseinformationen Aktuelle Meldung Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:33:00 +0100 Invitation to Holocaust Remembrance Day in Wolfsburg on 24 January 2024 http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/invitation-to-holocaust-remembrance-day-in-wolfsburg-on-24-january-2024-2980.html An alarming rise in anti-Semitic violence that is being fed from different sources, racial hatred... Wednesday, 24 January 2024. We are happy to invite you to this ceremony and look forward to seeing you there.

Program

Venue Hallenbad Kultur am Schachtweg
Wolfsburg 18.00 hrs
Admission
In the foyer of the indoor pool, Wolfsburg initiatives will provide information about commemorative activities and the topic of democracy.

19.00 hrs
Greetings
Dennis Weilmann Lord Mayor of the City of Wolfsburg
Christoph Heubner Executive Vice President International Auschwitz Committee
Daniela Cavallo Chairwoman of the General and Group Works Council of Volkswagen AG
Falko Mohrs Minister for Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
Rabbiner Yakov Yosef Harety Orthodox Jewish Community of Wolfsburg Cultural contributions
Atakan Koçtürk Muslim and Dimitri Tukuser Liberale Jüdische Gemeinde Wolfsburg - Region Braunschweig e.V.
Volkswagen AG trainees (Ines Doberanzke)
Pupils from Wolfsburg schools
VFL Wolfsburg
Jürgen Beck-Rebholz Head of Young Theater, Scharoun Theater Wolfsburg
Dancing Theater Wolfsburg
Closing of the event
Iris
Bothe City Councillor for Youth, Education, Integration and Social Affairs Musical accompaniment
Sarah Nonnenmacher (vocals) Registration
Please send your registration by January 15, 2024 by email to
amelie.dahmer(iak)stadt-wolfsburg.de or by telephone on 0157 1047507. Download Invitation with Program in German (pdf)
Dennis
Weilmann
Lord Mayor of the
City of Wolfsburg
Christoph Heubner
International
Auschwitz Committee

Andreas Plate
Hallenbad-
Kultur am
Schachtweg

Gisela
Rühl
Erinnerung und
Zukunft
e.V.
Lutz
Jordan
Association
for the promotion of the
Youth Meeting Center
Oświęcim/Auschwitz
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Holocaust survivors are appalled: right-wing extremist plans re-awaken grim memories. http://www.auschwitz.info/en/welcome/latest-news/rss-details/lesen/holocaust-survivors-are-appalled-right-wing-extremist-plans-re-awaken-grim-memories-2975.html Commenting in Berlin on the AfD’s participation in the discussion of right-wing extremist expulsion... Aktuelle Meldung Presseinformationen Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:44:00 +0100