Hanna Komar is an award-wining poet, translator and human rights activist who lives in Minsk, Belarus. She wrote the poem Kurt Prüfer after her visit at Topf and Sons – Place of Remembrance in 2018. In the poem, she reflects on Topf and Sons’ engineer Kurt Prüfer’s reasons to design ovens for concentration and extermination camps, asking whether Prüfer ever dealt with his responsibility.
In October 2019 young people from Ukraine, Poland and Germany met in Oświęcim to visit the memomrial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They reflected on the history of the Holocaust as well as its implications for their own generation and those still to come. In this video Josefine, Natalia, Martyna, Seva and Weronika show how antisemitism and racism led to the Holocaust and what the younger generations can learn from history.
In October 2019, young people from Ukraine, Poland and Germany met in Oświęcim to visit the memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They reflected on the history of the Holocaust as well as its implications for their own generation and those still to come. In this video Kuea, Lena, Marinna and Vova discuss the consequences of the Holocaust and how to prevent the vicious cycle that leads to political extremism.
In October 2019, young people from Ukraine, Poland and Germany met in Oświęcim to visit the memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They reflected on the history of the Holocaust as well as its implications for their own generation and those still to come. In this video Amelia, Bruno and Pola share their thoughts on the impact the memorial site had on them personally.
In October 2019, young people from Ukraine, Poland and Germany met in Oświęcim to visit the memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They reflected on the history of the Holocaust as well as its implications for their own generation and those still to come. This video by Karl, Michał and Anastasia gives a brief introduction to the history of Auschwitz. They also share their personal views in the question:
At a conference held over several days at the Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance, some young Erfurt women from a vocational college that trains social care professionals and some young Syrian men considered the causes of prejudice and social exclusion and gave their joint answer in a short filmed statement.
At a conference held over several days at the Topf & Sons Place of Remembrance, six young women from Erfurt who are training to be social care professionals and two young men, refugees from Syria who are hoping for a future in Germany, engaged in an intensive discussion about integration. Here is their video presentation:
At a one-week trinational encounter in Auschwitz in October 2017 Barbara and Roza from Poland, sixteen years old, and Pamina and Lisa from Germany, both seventeen, made a video clip in which they offer a common answer to this complex question:
During a one-week trinational encounter in Auschwitz in October 2017 Alla, Anna, Nikita and Yulia from Ukraine and Amelie and Luise from Germany engaged in in-depth discussion about the issue of responsibility. Here are their statements in a sound-image collage:
At a trinational encounter in October 2017 Natalie from Poland and Kora and Sarah from Germany, all sixteen years old, and the nineteen-year-old Nastia from Ukraine set out on an intensive search for traces and recorded their impressions in an image-sound collage:
