10 a.m.
Bergen-Belsen POW Cemetery

Welcome
Katja Seybold, Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Speech
Dr Andreas Eberhardt, Chairman of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation

Speech
Participants in the tri-national youth exchange, Theresa Maischak and Melina Henning

11 a.m.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Commemoration at the obelisk

Welcome
Dr Jens-Christian Wagner, Director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation

Greeting
Grant Hendrik Tonne, Lower Saxony Minister of Culture and Education

Speech
Dr Janine Marx-Moyse, Amicale des Anciens Déportés de Bergen-Belsen

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

Commemoration at the inscription wall

Commemoration at the high cross
Prayer

Commemoration at the Jewish monument
Menachem Rosensaft, representative of those born in the DP camp

Kaddish and El Male Rachamim

2 p.m.
Exhibition opening in the Memorial forum
“Children in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp”

Greeting
Wepke Kingma, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Greeting
Hans-Christian Biallas, President of the Klosterkammer Hannover

Introduction
Diana Gring, Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Other events

Saturday, 14 April 2018, 4 p.m.
Commemoration ceremony with Gerd Klestadt
Event organised by the Bergen-Belsen Working Group
Location: Bergen-Belsen, Ramp

Sunday, 15 April 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Commemoration ceremony of the Association of Victims of Nazi Persecution/League of Anti-fascists and the German Trade Union Confederation Northeast Lower Saxony

Location: Bergen-Belsen POW Cemetery

Free bus transfer on behalf of the Foundation Niedersächsische Gedenkstätten:

8.20 am Celle, Schlossplatz (castle side)

8.25 am Celle, train station (in front of the kiosk)

8.40 clock Winsen, Celler street

8.45 clock Winsen, Küsterdamm

from 9.20 am Shuttle traffic Bergen-Belsen Memorial - POW Cemetery Bergen-Belsen

3.15 pm Return from Bergen-Belsen Memorial via Winsen and Celle train station to Celle Schlossplatz