Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism

In a highly personal speech, the German-Israeli writer Inge Deutschkron (video) talked about her experience as a young girl in National Socialist Germany and her father’s exile in Britain. The German Bundestag’s Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism commemorates the 27th of January 1945, the day on which Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp. The Ceremony of Remembrance was opened by the President of the German Bundestag, Norbert Lammert.

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The presence of the past

A group of young people met Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestag, Father Patrick Desbois, founder of the organisation Yahad – In Unum, and Deidre Berger, Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Office, to discuss approaches to remembrance of National Socialist crimes.

Bundestagspräsident Lammert bei einer Diskussion mit Jugendlichen im rahmen der Gedenkstunde für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus. - Video ansehen... - Öffnet neues Fenster

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