Ein Abend in Erinnerung an Max Mannheimer | Mit Ernst Mannheimer und Katja Wildermuth

The NS Documentation Center is deeply connected to Holocaust survivor Max Mannheimer. His appeal to young people is embedded in the foundation stone of the new building, the square in front of the building has been named after him since 2016 and the nsdoku bears the honorary address Max-Mannheimer-Platz 1.

At the age of 23, Max Mannheimer was deported with his parents and siblings via the Theresienstadt ghetto to the Auschwitz extermination camp. Mannheimer's wife, parents, brothers Erich and Ernst and sister Käthe were murdered there. He himself and his brother Edgar were deported to Dachau concentration camp, where they had to perform extremely hard forced labor before being liberated by US Army units in April 1945. Since the 1980s, Max Mannheimer has reported on his persecution during the Nazi era as a contemporary witness, not only passing on his experiences, but also processing his own pain and grief. Even earlier, in the 1950s, Max Mannheimer captured his traumas in art. Under the name ben jakov, he created an extensive, multifaceted body of work.

The evening commemorates Max Mannheimer, who died in Munich on September 23, 2016, and shows his confrontation with the past and the - not always positive - reactions it provoked. The event focuses on letters that Mannheimer received in the 1980s in response to his first public interviews with contemporary witnesses. In conversation with Katja Wildermuth, Ernst Mannheimer will talk about his father. Afterwards, there will be an opportunity for an audience discussion and a get-together at Max-Mannheimer-Platz.