Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten

Events

Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum

Death March Memorial in Below Forest

78th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

21. April - 24. April 2023

11am, Visitor Information Centre
Generational discussion of the International Sachsenhausen Committee


2pm, In front of the New Museum
Welcome to the decentralised commemoration
Prof. Dr. Axel Drecoll, Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
Andreas Meyer, Deputy President of the International Sachsenhausen Committee

followed by decentralised commemoration ceremonies at various locations in the memorial site

3:30pm, "Station Z" memorial site
Central commemoration ceremony
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Axel Drecoll, Director of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation
Dik de Boef, President of the International Sachsenhausen Committee

Speeches
Ursula Nonnemacher, Minister for Social Affairs, Health, Integration and Consumer Protection and Deputy Minister President of the State of Brandenburg
Dr. Jörg Wojahn, Representative of the European Commission in Germany
Edward Farber, survivor of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Prayer
José Gaasch-Trauffler Amicale de Sachsenhausen (Luxembourg), daughter of survivor Renée Trauffler

Moorsoldatenlied

Kaddish
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama, Rabbi and son of the survivor Estrongo Nachama
Laying of a wreath

Please note: From 10 p.m. on Friday, 21 April until Monday, 24 April, traffic between Birkenwerder and Oranienburg will be interrupted. A rail replacement service via Borgsdorf and Lehnitz will be set up. The departure times of the trains will change slightly.

Please register your participation at: veranstaltungen@gedenkstaette-sachsenhausen.de

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