Michael, looking around the site of the former Aschendorfermoor concentration camp, accompanied by his girlfriend Kia, who follows in the footsteps of her grandmother, a member of the Polish Home Army and imprisoned in Emsland after the Warsaw Uprising. Meeting of relatives of inmates and prisoners of the Emslandlager concentration camp from September 27 to 29, 2024, PapenburgMy grandmother Klara Schabrod, anti-fascist resistance fighter, watches TV news and reflects on the next big turn of an era in her life. Düsseldorf, 1994Relatives discuss how the legacy of their ancestors’ anti-fascist resistance and the transgenerational influence on them self can be used constructively for civil society.
Meeting of relatives of inmates and prisoners of the Emslandlager concentration camp from September 27 to 29, 2024, PapenburgSelf-made monument for a mass grave at the execution site of the wells of Caudé, where around 1000 men and women were executed by Franco’s Falangists, and their bodies were then thrown into the fountain. Teruel, 1996T. from Los Angeles feels the need to learn more about anti-fascist resistance due to developments in the USA, to become vigilant against autocratic oppression. KZ Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, 24.02.2025Maria Zarada is a Sinteza woman; over 40 members of her family were murdered during the Porajmos (Romanes for the Holocaust). She is working with Nils Oskamp on the book and traveling exhibition “Memorials to Nazi Crimes in Europe.” Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, 5 April 2025Building on the grounds of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Oranienburg, 24.02.2025Gert Levy points to Berta, the mother of politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who fought with his father (2nd left) in the Jewish resistance group 35e Brigade FTP-MOI in Toulouse. Gert‘s father later worked on the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community and EEC in Brussels and his mother was a 3rd degree cousin of Elvis Presley. Berlin, 24.02.2025“Stolperstein” for Arthur Kahn, who was arrested on suspicion of being a communist. Kahn and the Jewish prisoners Alfred Benario, Ernst Goldmann and Erwin Kahn were shot in Dachau on April 12, 1933, 22 days after the concentration camp opened. The four men were the first Jews to be murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Gemünden, February 4, 2025Naftali Fürst, survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald,
and Steven Moskowitz, son of Alex Moskowitz, who was rescued by Antonin Kalina, at the film presentation ‘Kinderblock 66 – Return to Buchenwald’.
As a member of the Buchenwald resistance, the communist Kalina saved the lives of more than 900 child inmates.
Among them were Imre Kertész and Elie Wiesel. Weimar, 4 April 2025Zuzanna Hertzberg, a Polish interdisciplinary artist, activist, and researcher demonstrates with the flag of the Naftali Botwin Company, a separate Jewish unit with about 150 members from Poland, France, Belgium, Palestine and Spain in the International Brigades. AAIB 80 year ceremony, University City Madrid, 2016Klara Schabrod and her sister Marie Rittgerodt in their shared apartment. After World War II, they supported each other for life and fought for “Never again fascism” and world peace. Düsseldorf, 1995Kia follows in the tracks of her grandmother, who was a member of the Polish Home Army and was imprisoned in Emsland after the Warsaw Uprising, meeting of relatives, PapenburgA room in the Bendlerblock, Stauffenberg and the other conspirators were executed in the building courtyard, today the German Resistance Memorial is located in the building. Berlin 23.02.2025Brandenburg State Police University
uses parts of the former SS-compound which
used to be an integral section of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. It was built in 1936
when the headquarters and the prisoners‘ camp
were simultaneously erected. The construction
works had to be done by prisoners.
The SS-compound accommodated several
companies of the steadily growing “Death‘s Head
Units” which were responsible for guarding the
camp. From autumn 1939 on a large part of these
militarily trained units, which had been brutalized
during their guard duty, took part in the war and
proved to be especially cruel towards the Jewish
population. 24.02.2025A sit-in by young anti-fascists blocks a demonstration march by Neo-Nazis to Berlin Central Station. 22.02.2025Gert worked with Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze and later studied the internal divisions in the structures of the survivors of fascism in the Jewish and resistance contexts. He describes Sarah Goldberg (member of the Red Orchestra, Auschwitz survivor and founding member of Amnesty International) as the “foster mother” of his Brussels childhood.
Berlin, 24.02.2025Katinka Poensgen and Nils Osskamp from the Buchenwald-Dora Camp Working Group e.V. at the film presentation ‘Kinderblock 66 – Return to Buchenwald’. Weimar, 4 April 2025Nils Oskamp, graphic novel author, victim of neo-Nazi violence and anti-fascist, guides a group of Spanish youths through Buchenwald concentration camp. Weimar, 5 April 2025RTL/NTv News Team documents empty schoolyards after right-wing extremist amok threats led to the cancellation of classes for around 18,000 students. Duisburg, April 7, 2025Riot police escort 160 Neo-Nazis to the AfD party headquarters after their demonstration was blocked for several hours by Antifa in Berlin-Mitte. Berlin, February 22, 2025Corina shows Kia the new archive after the DIZ was forced out of the Esterwegen Memorial. The DIZ is the original initiator of the Emslandlager memorial and provides a large part of the exhibits. This did not prevent the political decision to push them out of the state memorial. September 27 to 29, 2024, PapenburgDemo against right-wing extremism as part of the nationwide „Wähl Liebe“ campaign, a civil society reaction to the voting cooperation between the CDU/CSU and the AfD. Fulda, February 4, 2025Mal Élevé + Osy play “No pasaran” in front of the Office of the Federal Government, Berlin, February 22, 2025Section of the Bendlerblock around the courtyard, where Stauffenberg and the other conspirators were executed, now houses the Memorial to the German Resistance. It is also used as one of the ceremonial sites where new members of the Wachbataillon of the Bundeswehr (German military‘s drill unit) take their oaths. Berlin , 23.02.2025Vera Dehle-Thälmann, granddaughter of Rosa and Ernst Thälmann, observes the wreath-laying site at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp, which is cordoned off for invited guests.
She is the spokesperson for the German Camp Community Ravensbrück/Friends of Ravensbrück. Weimar, 6 April 2025Katinka Poensgen with the false imprint of the “Stolperstein” for her grandfather Karl Vögtel, he was seven years imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp after he was arrested by Stalin‘s NKVD in 1937 as a member of the KPD and deported to Germany. She worked for the Metal trade union for more then 30 years and was involved in anti-fascism for just as long. Frankfurt a.M., 04.03.2025Demo against right-wing extremism as part of the nationwide „Wähl Liebe“ campaign, Fulda, 2025Nacho and Jesus Maria mounting the International Brigade Plaque. AAIB 80 year ceremony, Vicálvaro, Madrid, 2016
