Gespräche gegen das Vergessen

In the organizer's words:

Didn't know about anything?
Traces of Nazi history in our families

After the end of the Second World War, many families suppressed or glossed over their own Nazi past. Stories of resistance and heroic deeds often overshadow the unwelcome truths. Victims' families also often remained silent. The pain was too great, the wounds too deep. But the silence has an impact on future generations. What are these effects? This is what this year's "Conversations against forgetting" will be about.

Presenter Andreas Bönte invites the descendants of Holocaust survivors, Rachel Salamander and Michael Wolffsohn, as well as the descendant of a Nazi war criminal, Alexandra Senfft, to the Munich Volkstheater for a discussion. How did they each experience coming to terms with the past in their families? The other guests are 21-year-old Marco Artmann, who went in search of clues together with his grandfather in his successful podcast "Opa lass reden". In addition to a scientific presentation of the topic by psychologist Louis Lewitan, musical interludes by award-winning Augsburg violinist Nico Franz as well as film clips and student performances will turn the theater stage into a forum against forgetting.

Moderation: Prof. Andreas Bönte (BR)

in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD alpha

More information & tickets: https://www.muenchner-volkstheater.de/programm/extra/gespraeche-gegen-das-vergessen