On January 26, 2025, the Roma Center is organizing a performance of the documentary play Child Survivors. The play is about ten children who survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Using biographical information, original quotes and video installations, their perspective is taken on “islands of memory”: on the immediate experience of moments of everyday life in the camp as a child and on the adults’ memories of the traumatic imprisonment in their childhood. Information scenes on the history and conditions of detention in this Nazi concentration camp show the destructive structure of persecution and internment by the Nazi regime.
After the performance of Child Survivors on January 26, we will delve deeper into the themes of the play with guests from the Roma and Sinti communities, the Jewish university group and the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and critically examine the processing of the Shoah and the Samudaripen. In doing so, we will explore the following questions, among others: How far have we come in remembering? What continuities are there in social reality and what gaps are there in the culture of remembrance? And what significance does remembrance have in times of the renormalization of right-wing extremist ideas in society?
Panel guests:
Ricardo Tietz, Lower Saxony Association of German Sinti e.V.
Jannes Walter, Association of Jewish Students North e.V./ Jewish University Group
Kenan Emini, Roma Center e.V./ Roma Antidiscrimination Network
Dr. Akim Jah, Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Moderation: Sandra Goerend, Roma Center e.V.
When:
January 26, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.;
January 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Where: Junges Theater Göttingen, Bürgerstraße 15, Göttingen
Admission to both performances is free! Donations are requested.
To secure a seat, please reserve a ticket at the Junges Theater at kasse@junges-theater.de or 0551 495015.
The performance on January 27th at 10 a.m. is aimed at school classes. After the performance, the students have the opportunity to talk to the ensemble of the play.
Director: Dorothea Derben | Assistant director: Raffaela Lanci | Music: Alexander Derben | Acting: Andrea Casabianchi, Johannes Fast, Marlène Jeffré
The event on January 27th is fully booked!
Organized by Roma Center e.V. in cooperation with DOMINO e.V., Jewish Community Göttingen e.V. and Jewish Community for Göttingen and Southern Lower Saxony e.V.
The event takes place as part of the January 27th Alliance in memory of the victims of National Socialism.