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Current exhibition

from 3.3.2023 to 26.4.2023 in the Lobby adjacent to Robert‑Havemann‑Hall
Weekdays from 10:00 am to 05:00 pm, please contact the administration shortly before

Born in Auschwitz

Current exhibition
Children in Auschwitz, that is the darkest stain in a deeply dark history. Between 1940 and 1945, more than 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis. Even in the early stages of the camp, the living conditions for the prisoners were such that none and none of them were to leave the death camp alive again. "The supreme ...

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Events

Friday, 31.3.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Book presentation with discussion

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The 'Findbuch archival sources on early anarchism', published in 2021, documents the basic sources on the "Freemen" from Berlin archives. It thus reveals in detail for the first time their development, persecution by police and censorship authorities, and their fate in the 1848 revolution. Among other things, it contains ...


Saturday, 8.4.2023 at 5.00 pm, Bibliothek der Freien

Introduction

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Welcome to the anarchic library of the free! Our extensive collection of books, magazines, and other media will lift your spirit and inspire you to change the world (or at least think about it). To help you get oriented and find your next favorite book, we will provide insight into the library project, their history, and our holdings of ...


Thursday, 13.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Lecture

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Children in Auschwitz: this is the darkest stain of a dark history. They were deported to Auschwitz with their families or were born there under unimaginable conditions. Only a few survived. Throughout their lives, they bear the traces of what they suffered on their bodies and in their souls. Tattooed on the forearm or thigh, it grows ...


Friday, 14.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Lecture

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Proudhon, to whom Kropotkin gave the honorary title "father of anarchy," is considered one of the founders of modern anarchism. He chose the negatively connoted term "anarchist" as a self-designation for the current, founded the socialist critique of property and laid the foundation for anarchist economic organization in ...


Friday, 14.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Seminar room I (front building, 1st floor)

Lecture and discussion

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Till today, the Nazis' war of extermination in Eastern Europe has had little presence in the German culture of remembrance; the situation is quite different in the affected countries themselves. Not least in the course of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, it became clear once again that the memory of the Second World War in ...


Saturday, 15.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Talk and reading with Auschwitz survivor Dr. Eva Umlauf and author Dr. Stefanie Oswalt

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When Eva Umlauf is born in the Nováky labor camp in Slovakia on December 19, 1942, it is 20 degrees below zero. She is the first of five children to be born in the camp - a sign of hope, as she learns from former fellow sufferers after the war. On November 3, 1944, Eva and her parents arrive at Auschwitz on a train with about 500 ...


Wednesday, 19.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Lecture

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After the victory of the Allied forces over Nazi Germany, many survivors of Nazi ghettos, concentration and extermination camps were able to find refuge and a new home in the newly founded state of Israel. According to the Israeli Ministry of Social Affairs, 165,800 survivors of the Shoah (Hebrew for catastrophe) still live in Israel. ...


Friday, 28.4.2023 at 7.00 pm, Seminar room I (front building, 1st floor)
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Friday, 19.5.2023 at 7.00 pm, Robert-Havemann-Hall

Lecture

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A few days after the barbaric book burning by the National Socialists, the German-Scottish man of letters John Henry Mackay died at the age of almost 70. Contemporarily, the naturalist was a best-selling author who propagated anarchist ideas in works such as "The Anarchists" or the poetry collection "The Storm" and ...


Saturday, 10.6.2023 at 5.00 pm, Bibliothek der Freien
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Friday, 16.6.2023 at 7.00 pm, Seminar room I (front building, 1st floor)

Vortragsreihe: Terror, Kollaboration und Widerstand im NS-besetzten Osteuropa

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Till today, the Nazis' war of extermination in Eastern Europe has had little presence in the German culture of remembrance; the situation is quite different in the affected countries themselves. Not least in the course of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, it became clear once again that the memory of the Second World War in ...