78th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

(Updated on 13 April 2023)

 

We will offer a bus shuttle from Anne-Frank Platz to POW Cemetery at 9.30 a.m.

 

 

10 a.m.

Bergen-Belsen POW Cemetery

 

Welcome

Katja Seybold, Bergen-Belsen Memorial

 

Speech

Sabine Tippelt, Vice President of the Lower Saxony State Parliament

 

Silent remembrance

 

11 a.m.

Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Commemoration at the obelisk

 

Welcome

Dr Elke Gryglewski, Director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

 

Opening words

Julia Willie Hamburg, Lower Saxony Minister for Culture and Chairwoman of the Foundation Board of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

 

Speech

Michael Fürst with Nicola Fürst-Schuhmacher and Lenny Schuhmacher

 

Speech

Dr Mehmet Daimagüler, Federal Government Commissioner for Antiziganism

 

Recitation of the names of former prisoners who died in the past year

 

Musical accompaniment by the Quartetto Con Piacere

 

 

Commemoration at the inscription wall

 

Commemoration at the high cross

 

Prayer

 

Commemoration at the Jewish monument

 

Speech

Menachem Rosensaft, representative of the DP Children of Bergen-Belsen and Chairman of Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

 

Kaddish and El Male Rachamim

 

Welcome

Dr Elke Gryglewski

 

Intergenerational discussion of the significance of persecution

Michael Fürst with Nicola Fürst-Schuhmacher and Lenny Schuhmacher

Moderator: Dr Elke Gryglewski

 

Intergenerational discussion of the significance of persecution (in English)

Karen Lasky

Moderator: N.N.

 

Discussion of lines of continuity in antiziganism

Samantha Rose, Bernd Grafe-Ulke, Lukas Engelmeier

Moderator: Katrin Unger, M.A.

 

As part of the commemoration events, the exhibition entitled ‘Liberated! Now what? Journeys of Nazi victims of persecution after their liberation in spring 1945’ will be opened. Afternoon event organised in cooperation with the Bergen-Belsen Working Group. Coffee, tea and biscuits will be offered.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 15 April 2023, 3 p.m.

Commemoration ceremony with Menachem Rosensaft, representative of the DP Children of Bergen-Belsen

Event organised by the Bergen-Belsen Working Group

Location: Bergen-Belsen, Ramp

 

Sunday, 16 April 2023, 1 p.m.

Commemoration ceremony of the Association of Victims of Nazi Persecution/League of Anti-fascists and the German Trade Union Confederation

Location: Bergen-Belsen POW Cemetery