TRIP TO BERLIN – 2016

Dates: 1 – 11 March, 2016

Working language: English

Timeline: 

01.03.2016	Arrival to Berlin, Welcome dinner
02.03.2016	Visiting the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe City Tour “Berlin Walland separated Berlin”
03.03.2016	Visiting the Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder) City Tour in Frankfurt Oder and Słubice „On the trail of political repression remembrance in Poland and Germany” Visiting the field office of the federal commissioner for the Stasi data archive
04.03.2016	Exhibition „Art from the Holocaust“ at German Historical Museum Visiting the Stasi-museum including a talk with a witness of the time period
05.03.2016	free time
06.03.2016	Participants-lead day of presentations
07.03.2016	Seminar „Survival of the perpetrators after 1945“ at the Memorial Topographie des Terrors Panel Discussion with reception „Verdrängen, Vergessen, Erblinden? Nationalsozialismus und Stalinismus im deutsch-russischen Gedächtnis“
08.03.2016	Memorial Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg / Berlin
09.03.2016	Memorial Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg / Berlin
10.03.2016	Memorial Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg / Berlin
11.03.2016	Departure from Berlin

Content:

Activities will include lectures at universities provided by the Holocaust researchers; visits to museums and memorials including Buchenwald and Memorial Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg where participants will be taught how to manage group work and teach at the memorials and how to make history alive. Also city-tours with respect to the Holocaust history will be provided in Berlin and Leipzig.