Nevertheless here! - Children from forbidden relationships between Germans and prisoners of war or forced laborers

Participatory conception of a traveling exhibition was the main objective of the project. The personal access to the sometimes existing experiences of racism and identity crises of the children and young people at that time opened up a space to talk about racism, also for young people with comparable experiences. A forum gave this group the opportunity to exchange ideas and network with each other. In workshops, the participants compiled the biographical focal points as presented in the exhibition via interviews. For the first time ever, personal experiences of this group are preserved and safeguarded by these interviews. The exhibition was supported by a scientific advisory board, an advisory board of young "experts on their own account" with migration history, who established the transfer between the experiences of exclusion and racism between then and now, and the Bad Bederkesa Education Center for Teacher Training.

Created by Sandbostel Camp Memorial, the touring exhibition "nevertheless here!" is on view until July 1, 2026 at the Gestapokeller and Augustaschacht Memorial. Additional stops through the end of 2027 have already been announced: trotzdem da! — The exhibition
 

Sandbostel Camp Foundation
The memorial site at the location of the former Prisoner of War Main Camp (Stalag) X B Sandbostel in northern Lower Saxony is a facility of the private Sandbostel Camp Foundation. The central and most important large exhibit consists of seven parallel rows of former wooden dormitory huts. Furthermore, there are twelve other buildings from the Stalag period and the early post-war period, including internment camps for members of the Waffen-SS and emergency transit camps for young male refugees from East Germany. The history of the prisoner-of-war camp is presented with the help of two permanent exhibitions and a multi-layered memorial education program.

Data Sheet

Cooperation partners:
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme
Projekt „Multi-peRSPEKTif“ am Denkort Bunker Valentin, Bremen
Kompetenzzentrum für Lehrer(innen)fortbildung Bad Bederkesa

Funding country: Germany
Duration: 01.12.2022 until 31.12.2024

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