Die Themen reichen dabei von Familie und Spielen über Appell und Gewalt bis hin zu Angst, Hunger, Krankheit und Sterben. Auch wenig bekannte Aspekte wie die Geburten im Konzentrationslager werden vorgestellt. Die Hilfsmaßnahmen, die nach der Befreiung für überlebende Kinder ergriffen wurden sowie Biografien von Kinderüberlebenden bilden weitere Kapitel. Ein Ausstellungsteil ist den etwa 600 Kindern gewidmet, die im KZ Bergen-Belsen um ihr Leben gebracht wurden.Die Ausstellung ist multiperspektivisch angelegt und basiert auf einem breiten Spektrum von Bild- und Textquellen, das von Häftlingstagebüchern, Zeichnungen und Fotos bis zu Erinnerungsberichten und wenige Tage nach der Befreiung entstandenen Ton- und Filmaufnahmen reicht. Einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der Ausstellung bilden bislang unveröffentlichte Ausschnitte aus Videointerviews mit Kinderüberlebenden des KZ Bergen-Belsen, die einen Einblick in die spezifischen Formen ihrer Wahrnehmung und Reaktion auf die Lebensbedingungen im Konzentrationslager geben.

Germany

„Kinder im KZ Bergen-Belsen“

La danse, loisir majeur de la jeunesse française de l’entre-deux-guerres, est vivement réprimée et sanctionnée par le régime de Vichy. Considéré comme une atteinte à la morale et aux bonnes moeurs, le bal devient clandestin.Comment et pourquoi cet interdit est-il transgressé en France et en Bretagne occupée ? Quelles sont les musiques qui font bouger les corps et oublier la guerre ? Qui sont ceux qui prennent le risque d’organiser et d’animer ces bals ? Comment expliquer cette irrésistible envie de danser malgré la répression ?Après avoir été présentée au musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère, au musée de la Résistance et de la déportation du Cher et au Musée de la Résistance nationale de Champigny, l’exposition « Vous n’irez plus danser ! Les bals clandestins 1939-1945 » vous invite à la découverte de l’atmosphère des bals clandestins et de leur histoire au musée de la Résistance en Bretagne. Tarifs : Accès compris dans le tarif d’entrée.

France

« Vous n'irez plus danser ! Les bals clandestins : 1939-1945 »

The Shoah has been present in Polish visual culture since the 1940s—initially in films, paintings, graphic works, and sculpture, and later in installations, videos, and performances. Such works result from a variety of creative processes—documentation, commemoration, and expressions of sorrow and anger, but also those focused on ritual, the politicized representation of events and individuals, and the manipulation of collective memory.The artists Zuzanna Hertzberg, Paweł Kowalewski, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Natalia Romik, Wilhelm Sasnal, and Zofia Wiślicka &amp; Artur Żmijewski address the multitude of gaps and voids, both material and immaterial, created by the loss of almost the entire Jewish population of Poland. The title of this exhibition refers both to the process of confronting the material evidence of past crimes and to that of identifying the traces of life that no one can any longer embrace.

Materializing: Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland

This collective of academics, writers, and activists working secretly in the ghetto called themselves Oneg Shabbat&nbsp;(Joy of the Sabbath). The archive assembled by Oneg Shabbat is a unique and outstanding example of Jewish self-assertion during the Shoah and represents the first attempt to document the German-initiated mass murder of European Jews directly, as it was happening, and later to archive this documentation. As such it constitutes an act of civil resistance.&nbsp;The archive is preserved in the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and became part of the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage in 1999. It comprises some 35,000 pages of notes, diary entries, essays, photos, drawings, official documents, and other testimony to everyday life. The original goal of Oneg Shabbat had been simply to document life in the ghetto, where Jews from Warsaw and other Polish regions, Jews deported from Germany and from countries under German occupation—including some who had converted to Christianity—as well as Roma lived alongside one another, trying to survive in the oppressively overcrowded conditions of the closed-off ghetto in the center of Warsaw. Here, as many as 460,000 people were herded together to live under inhumane conditions.&nbsp;When it became increasingly clear from 1942 onwards where the German occupation policy was leading, Oneg Shabbat began to document the Shoah—the organized mass murder of European Jews in the German extermination camps in the East. The members of Oneg Shabbat, who at times numbered perhaps sixty, worked secretly. Although we do not know exactly how many people worked for Oneg Shabbat, we do know that only three of them survived the Shoah. Most of the archive was preserved, however, buried in a hiding place beneath the ruins of the ghetto. &nbsp; &nbsp; The exhibition offers a radical inside view of the ghetto as seen from a Jewish perspective, placing the Oneg Shabbat Archive at the center and letting the documents and photos speak for themselves. In this way we gain an intense and varied picture of life, suffering, and death in the ghetto. The exhibition brings home to the viewer the act of resistance that the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto constituted—a never-ending, arduous, harrowing but ultimately successful attempt to write the story of the Shoah from the perspective of its victims, despite the impending obliteration of Polish Jewry.

More Important than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

It is only in the past few decades that leading historical research has been published on the subject, allowing us to learn more about it. In France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin’s speech in 2001 paved the way for the official recognition of the deportation of homosexuals.The exhibition, which draws on various documents, many of which have never been presented in Belgium, aims to answer several questions, situating the persecution of homosexual women and men under the Nazi regime in a broader geographical framework – even though the emphasis is on Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands – and over a longer period of time.Homosexual women and men met different fates. Some elected to go in exile, while others led a double life. In Germany, approximately 50,000 of the 100,000 homosexuals who had been identified by the authorities were convicted: between 5,000 and 15,000 were sent to concentration camps, where the majority died, even though their fate varied significantly depending on the camp to which they were sent and the date of their internment. Lesbians, meanwhile, remained outside the scope of the law, except in certain territories, such as Austria. Some were deported, having been labelled ‘antisocial’ or ‘communist’.In demonstrating the extent of the Nazi persecution and the richness of the gay and lesbian subcultures that existed in the early 20th century, the exhibition takes up the challenge of saving this piece of history from oblivion.It also starts from a scientific premise, because people must fight the untruths that sometimes continue to circulate.Starting with an evocation of the early homosexual movements at the end of the 19th century until the 1930s, the exhibition delves deeper into the persecution of homosexuals, mainly under the Nazi regime and in a European context. It then goes on to present an overview of repression in other countries. Finally, it touches upon the issues of remembrance and recognition since the end of the Second World War and in more recent times.

Belgium

Temporary exhibition: Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe

Leurs photographies, vidéos et collages forment une ode à toutes les femmes, qui ne portaient pas d'armes mais combattaient sous différents chapeaux, en tissant des liens, en soutenant la stratégie et en assurant la vie quotidienne. Deux femmes en particulier sont mises à l’honneur : Yvonne Oddon, d’origine dioise, résistante du réseau du Musée de l’Homme à Paris et bibliothécaire avant-gardiste ; Annedore Leber, veuve d’un député allemand assassiné par les nazis et qui a publié deux livres sur la résistance allemande dans les années 1950. Le musée ajoute un volet historique à l’exposition rappelant la place, longtemps occultée, des femmes dans la Résistance et retraçant le parcours de douze d’entre elles dans le Vercors.En partenariat avec DIEresidenz, résidences d’artistes à Die.Image © Claudia Balsters &amp; Hannah Goldstein

Liebe, Résistance

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” This ancient wisdom has not lost its meaning. Betrayal played a crucial part in World War II. Secret services utilised wartime misinformation to their benefit, using a network of defected secret agents (or double agents). The Freedom Museum’s temporary exposition Double Agent explains how this was done, starting on Friday, April 27th, 2023.The stories are spectacular. You’ll meet the man who inspired the character James Bond, as well as a man who single-handedly fooled German intelligence services. You’ll learn how the Enigma was cracked, how the attack on Pearl Harbor could have been prevented, and how double agents caused the Normandy landings to become historical successes. Pictures, videos and authentic objects bring the stories to life, with a real Enigma machine as the crown jewel.Double Agent is an exciting, experience-oriented exposition full of adventure and history. Visitors wander through the 1940s, discovering new stories and uncovering new mysteries behind each door. You’ll crack a code in a prison cell, gamble at the casino and learn how to fool enemies at a military headquarters. This journey through the history of betrayal leads to the present: are there still real double agents today? How does misinformation work? Would you recognise fake news?The temporary exposition Double Agent is a meaningful and unmissable experience. It runs from April 27th, 2023 up to and including January 7th, 2024 at the Freedom Museum in Groesbeek.

The Netherlands

Double Agent

Elle invite les jeunes visiteurs, mais aussi leurs parents, à plonger au cœur de quatre récits imaginés spécialement pour eux par 4 auteurs-illustrateurs jeunesse&nbsp;et, ainsi, de repartir du musée avec un petit morceau d’histoire à raccrocher à la grande Histoire.Une exposition pour les enfants (et leurs parents) à partir de 8 ans !DÉCOUVREZ LES THÈMES, LES HISTOIRES ET LES AUTEURS<ul><li>Sur le maquis :&nbsp;Le sac à dos&nbsp;par Géraldine Alibeu&nbsp;</li><li>Sur du rationnement :&nbsp;Surplace&nbsp;par Clarisse Lochmann&nbsp;</li><li>Sur les prisonniers de guerre :&nbsp;Bien chère Angèle&nbsp;par Romain Rousset&nbsp;</li><li>Sur les enfants juifs cachés :&nbsp;La guerre est arrivée&nbsp;par Jérôme Ruillier</li></ul>À travers une mise en espace immersive et sensorielle, les collections du musée sont également mises en dialogue avec chaque histoire pour sensibiliser le jeune public aux réalités de la période. Avec cette exposition inédite et le recours au travail artistique et littéraire, le musée propose ainsi un rapport renouvelé à l’histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et renforce son rôle essentiel de transmetteur auprès des jeunes générations.

À (h)auteur d’enfant, histoire(s) de guerre

Riga, as a site of atrocities and place of remembrance, is the focus of this exhibition. It positions the city within the history of deportation, German policies of occupation and the Holocaust in the Baltic. It also looks at the lives survivors went on to live, the judicial treatment of the crimes and initiatives to remember the victims.In autumn 2022, Riga was the first location where this touring exhibition by the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres was presented. Since then, it has been shown in German cities that were the points of origin for deportations to Riga between 1941 and 1942.The exhibition is presented in German and Latvian.

"Death is always amongst us" - The Deportations to Riga and the Holocaust in German-occupied Latvia

Ils s’appellent Léonard, Thomas ou encore Françoise, ils sont Canadiens, Britanniques ou Français, soldats ou civils et ils étaient présents en juin 1944 sur nos Plages normandes. Certains ont débarqué sur Juno Beach, d’autres habitaient sur la Côte de Nacre et attendaient les Alliés depuis de longs mois ; ils nous racontent ce qu’ils ont vécu et nous révèlent les images qui, à jamais, sont restées ancrées dans leur mémoire… la peur, l’angoisse, le bruit, la bataille sanglante, l’arrivée des soldats canadiens avec leur drôle d’accent et enfin la joie d’être libérés. L’équipe de l’office de tourisme Cœur de Nacre et celle du Centre Juno Beach sont heureuses d’annoncer le retour de l’exposition "Dans leurs pas" qui rend hommage aux acteurs et aux témoins de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Structures présentes sur les communes de Courseulles-sur-Mer, Bernières-sur-Mer, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Langrune-sur-Mer, Luc-sur-Mer, Reviers et Douvres-la-Délivrande. Sur l’application web : témoignages poignants de civils et de soldats.

Circuit-Expo plein-air « Dans leurs pas »

Objects, documents and immersive projections take you back in time to the perilous journey from the beaches of Normandy to the land of the Ardennes.

Bastogne 1944, the hell of the Ardennes

This exhibition presents the deep imprint of the Dieppe Raid in the Canadian collective memory of the Second World War. This is an exhibition about the trauma, but also about the healing and the many consequences of the raid since the fateful day in August 1942. It also explains why Dieppe still occupies a particularly important place in our understanding of Canada’s experience during the Second World War.The story of the Dieppe Raid, considered a tragic failure since 1942, is as complex as it is nuanced. The event has been the subject of extensive study over the decades by historians and continues to be debated among scholars and history buffs.For visitors new to the subject, From Dieppe to Juno is intended to be an accessible and factual presentation of the planning of the raid itself and its aftermath. For visitors who are more familiar with the history of Dieppe, the exhibition also addresses less often explored aspects of the Raid.The Dieppe Raid remains one of the most significant events in the Canadian history of the Second World War, so much so that for many decades it occupied a greater place in the collective memory of Canadians than the D-Day landings in Normandy of 1944. It is only in recent years that the events of Juno Beach have caught up with those of Dieppe in Canadian memory.This new exhibit attempts to better explain how and why conclusions have often been hastily drawn over the years. It grapples with the idea that the disaster saved lives on D-Day, and explores how the myth linking the horrors of Dieppe to the success of the Canadians on D-Day has evolved over time.The legacy left by the Dieppe Raid extends beyond national and temporal borders. In telling this story, the Juno Beach Centre and the War Heritage Institute explore the impacts of this legacy through the experiences of witnesses from all walks of life.

„Kinder im KZ Bergen-Belsen“

« Vous n'irez plus danser ! Les bals clandestins : 1939-1945 »

Materializing: Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland

More Important than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

Exposition temporaire : Homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l’Europe nazie

Liebe, Résistance

Agent double

À (h)auteur d’enfant, histoire(s) de guerre

"Death is always amongst us" - The Deportations to Riga and the Holocaust in German-occupied Latvia

Circuit-Expo plein-air « Dans leurs pas »

Bastogne 1944, l'enfer des Ardennes

De Dieppe a Juno: 80e anniversaire du raid de Dieppe

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„Kinder im KZ Bergen-Belsen“

« Vous n'irez plus danser ! Les bals clandestins : 1939-1945 »

Materializing: Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland

More Important than Life: The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

Exposition temporaire : Homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l’Europe nazie

Liebe, Résistance

Agent double

À (h)auteur d’enfant, histoire(s) de guerre

"Death is always amongst us" - The Deportations to Riga and the Holocaust in German-occupied Latvia

Circuit-Expo plein-air « Dans leurs pas »

Bastogne 1944, l'enfer des Ardennes

De Dieppe a Juno: 80e anniversaire du raid de Dieppe

Inscrivez votre événement sur Europe Remembers