+++ Supporting program for the touring exhibition "Die Verleugneten. Victims of National Socialism 1933 - 1945 - today" +++
Exhibition in the New Town Hall of the City of Leipzig (Lower Wandelhalle) from January 27 to March 30, 2026

Life and survival in the concentration camp system depended on many factors. How did the "block elders" or "Kapos" act? How cruel were the SS guards? What work or food rations were allocated?

Solidarity among the prisoners was an important factor for survival in the concentration camps. Emil Carlebach, who was imprisoned in Dachau and Buchenwald from 1937 because of his KPD membership and became a co-founder of the VVN in Frankfurt am Main after the liberation in 1947, described the code of the prisoners in Buchenwald in interviews: "Political prisoners", who had to wear the red triangle in the concentration camp, were required to distribute food rations fairly, to help everyone else and to show solidarity with one another. But did this code really apply to all prisoners? What about prisoners with a green or black corner - i.e. people who were persecuted as "professional criminals" or "asocials"? And how did society and former fellow prisoners behave after the liberation of the concentration camps?

We want to discuss some of these questions with Ines Eichmüller.
Ines Eichmüller is the great-granddaughter of a concentration camp prisoner with the black angle and second chairwoman of the Association for the Remembrance of the Denied Victims of National Socialism e.V. She studied political science, sociology and education.

Event organized by the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime - League of Anti-Fascists Leipzig e.V. (VVN-BdA Leipzig e.V.) in cooperation with the Association for the Remembrance of the Denied Victims of National Socialism e.V. (vevon e.V.)

The event is part of the traveling exhibition "Die Verleugneten. Victims of National Socialism 1933 - 1945 - today". An exhibition project of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial in cooperation with the Saxon Memorials Foundation in Memory of the Victims of Political Tyranny
Organizer: City of Leipzig in cooperation with the Memorial to Forced Labour in Leipzig and the Initiative Riebeckstraße 63 e.V.

New City Hall, Lower Foyer
Martin-Luther-Ring 4, 04109 Leipzig
Streetcar 2, 8, 9, 14 (New Town Hall), Tram 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15 (Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz)