{"title": "Gedenkveranstaltung zum 9. November: Filmvorführung von „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) & Gespräch & Musik", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heilig Kreuz-Kirche", "address": "Zossener Straße 65, 10961 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "A memorial event for 9 November at the Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Kreuzberg, featuring a screening of the documentary „Des Vaters Schweigen“ („The Father’s Silence“) followed by a talk and music. It is organised by the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde vor dem Halleschen Tor. The film tells the story of Sylvia Salomon, who only learned a few years before her father’s death that he had survived the Holocaust. Afterwards the director Mariella Santibáñez Koref and the film’s protagonist Sylvia Salomon will talk about it, with music by Yael Gat and Ofer Löwinger and moderation by pastor Christina Biere.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkveranstaltung-zum-9-november-filmvorfuhrung-von-des-va-121011/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Heilig Kreuz-Kirche", "address": "Zossener Straße 65, 10961 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Misha Schoeneberg liest aus „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht” mit musikalischer Begleitung", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "Buchhandlung am Schäfersee", "address": "Markstraße 6, 13409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature", "music"], "description": "Misha Schoeneberg reads from his book „Vielleicht wollte er gar nicht schweigen er fand bloß die Worte nicht“, accompanied by musician Michael Gerlinger, who sings songs by Leonard Cohen in German to the guitar. In this deeply personal book, the author traces the story of his father, a member of a Jewish Berlin family who survived the horrors of Auschwitz. It is about silence and speechlessness in the family, remembrance culture and the upheavals of the present up to the events of October 7. The reading takes place at Buchhandlung am Schäfersee in Berlin; advance registration is possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/misha-schoeneberg-liest-aus-vielleicht-wollte-er-gar-nicht-s-13471/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76d528393fa3deeeebccf968b564e266c0db82854844ae3c870ae2192546799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gedenken an die Novemberpogrome 1938 I \"Hymne an die Namen\"", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche", "address": "Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms", "music/singing"], "description": "A commemorative concert marking the November pogroms of 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. In the “Hymne an die Namen”, mezzo-soprano Kim Seligsohn sings the names of people who lived in the immediate neighbourhood of the church and whose shops were looted and destroyed. The idea for this commemoration grew out of her personal history – her grandmother Marianne was deported by the Nazis and murdered in Auschwitz – and it puts the individual stories of the victims, together with their names, at its centre. It is an attempt to give sound to the inconceivable, for as long as the names are “alive”, the dead are not forgotten.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenken-an-die-novemberpogrome-1938-i-hymne-an-die-namen-31087/", "official_url": "https://www.gedaechtniskirche-berlin.de/programm/veranstaltungsueberblick/veranstaltung/67225821?cHash=52a3d3a1ef039e96bfefead19e55261a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd929066d105640e5e983fa1876afb9ab351ce898fd2307fe2816cff503f2484-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Genya", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bundesplatz Studio", "address": "Bundesplatz 14, 10715 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "„Genya“ is a film premiere: the first screening of a documentary about Yevheniia (Genya) Sydorova, one of the last surviving women of the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women. The event is organized by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ), which presents the film on the occasion of its 25th anniversary under the motto „KEINE ZEIT ZU VERGESSEN“ (no time to forget). The Ukrainian director Lesya Kharchenko accompanied Genya during the last months of her life, showing how she dealt with violence and loss – memories of her father's execution, her deportation and her forced labor in Germany are part of her story. At its center is the question of whether forgiveness after the unforgivable is possible; afterwards, the director and invited guests discuss the film in a panel talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/genya-79854/", "official_url": "https://www.bundesplatz-kino.de/film.php?mid=4999", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4172e9f6899cf583e6b1d9ada886fa0053b510aeb3dea377414c0073bc5671f5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gegen das Vergessen – Andacht zu einem Deutschen Datum", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Dom", "address": "Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/christian/protestant", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "Berlin Cathedral invites to a special service titled „Gegen das Vergessen – Andacht zu einem Deutschen Datum\". The memorial service is dedicated to November 9th, a date that ties the state-ordered violence against the Jewish population in 1938 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. At its heart are remembrance of the Jewish victims, a plea for guidance amid growing antisemitism, and the memory of the shared courage of those who took to the streets for freedom. The service features a sermon by cathedral preacher Stefan Scholpp and music by the Oratorienchor der Berliner Domkantorei conducted by cathedral music director Adrian Büttemeier with organist Dr. Jakub Sawicki, performing exclusively works composed after November 9th, 1938.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gegen-das-vergessen-andacht-zu-einem-deutschen-datum-91791/", "official_url": "https://www.berlinerdom.de/termine/detail/show/2026-11-09-gegen-das-vergessen-andacht-zu-einem-deutschen-datum/", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Makellose Helden und passive Opfer?“ Die filmische Rezeption von Rettungswiderstand während der Shoah in Spielfilmen von den 1940er Jahren bis heute", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand", "address": "Stauffenbergstraße 13-14", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/history", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A public lecture at the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (German Resistance Memorial Center) on how feature films have depicted aid to and rescue of persecuted Jews during the Shoah. Dr. Nicolas Moll analyses cinema and television films from Europe and the USA from the 1940s to today, with Steven Spielberg's \"Schindler's List\" from 1993 as a landmark in rising public interest. Uta Fröhlich of the Gedenkstätte Stille Helden gives the welcome and moderates, and a discussion follows the talk. The event is part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026; registration by email is requested by 10 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/makellose-helden-und-passive-opfer-die-filmische-rezeption-v-22558/", "official_url": "https://www.gdw-berlin.de/angebote/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung/event/1554-makellose-helden-und-passive-opfer-die-filmische-rezeption-von-rettungswiderstand-waehrend-der-shoah-in-spielfilmen-von-den-1940er-jahren-bis-heute", "image": ""}, {"title": "„Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Erinnerung und Gedenken an den Holocaust zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Schule", "start": "2026-11-14T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "diekleinegalerie", "address": "Goßlerstraße 21, 12161 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration"], "description": "diekleinegalerie invites to a conversation on a current topic: „Nie wieder ist jetzt?“ – Remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust between historical scholarship and school. The conversation is between Prof. Wolfgang Benz, a historian, and Jakob Ciré, a teacher of history at a Berlin integrated comprehensive school. It addresses how remembrance can be conveyed when there are no more contemporary witnesses, how it can be kept alive in our post-migrant society, and what the claim of „never again“ means in the present. Due to limited seating, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-ist-jetzt-erinnerung-und-gedenken-an-den-holocaus-22255/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f73b455b1470f0057773d4f06131c621ad7cc9ce52444fb1b8938abe5476a194-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gedenkveranstaltung zur Pogromnacht vom 9. November 1938 an den Stolpersteinen für Elias und Martha Feuerstein", "start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum", "address": "Adalbertstraße 95a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "worship", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms", "occasion/memorial", "religion/jewish"], "description": "A memorial gathering with a wreath-laying at the Stolpersteine for Elias and Martha Feuerstein commemorates the pogroms of 9 November 1938. The Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district office and district assembly invite to it; deputy district mayor Regine Sommer-Wetter will take part. Music and speeches will look at the couple's life story: as Jews they were excluded, disenfranchised, persecuted and murdered by the National Socialists. It takes place at Neue Weberstraße 57, the site of the Feuersteins' former shop and home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gedenkveranstaltung-zur-pogromnacht-vom-9-november-1938-an-d-75875/", "official_url": "https://www.fhxb-museum.de/news-detail/gedenkveranstaltung-zur-pogromnacht-vom-9-november-1938-an-den-stolpersteinen-fuer-elias-und-martha-feuerstein", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9df0368df33dcbf9c990b339da7888ed6a3556ae13c8d8217f9d8aeae8cc73ea-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jetzt leben – Juden in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/identity"], "description": "Helma Sanders-Brahms' 1994 documentary portrays a Jewish family that immigrated from Odessa to Berlin. In long conversations, father, mother and son reflect on German-Jewish history; sixteen-year-old Leonard speaks openly about belonging, exclusion and responsibility and develops a self-confident relationship to his Jewishness. In the face of right-wing extremist tendencies, he sees his life in Berlin as a deliberate statement. According to Sanders-Brahms, the film avoids folklore, rituals and political statements, asking the viewer to engage long and intensively with three people who came to Berlin from Odessa nine years earlier.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jetzt-leben-juden-in-berlin-12742/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14763/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad849b2bfd980c36e4dd5c4c59541a761def315e257f3ba2d5debc3b9866d396-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause - Welche Spuren hinterlässt eine Ausreise?", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The evening screens the film “Die noch unbekannten Tage”, in which Jola Wieczorek takes us on a cinematic journey of remembrance back to the 1980s. At its centre is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. Afterwards, the “Dazwischen-Zimmer” becomes a site of memory-building: a temporary installation with personal objects, letters and stories invites visitors to set memories in motion and talk with one another. A performative reading picks up the stories and objects, and the filmmaker is a guest as well.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-welche-spuren-hinterlass-30505/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f328ad84d2f36eacc6bc7bfd5292ee68535938c78a28ea910daadc093ddedb9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Regionaler Gottesdienst zum Pogromgedenken", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Christuskirche", "address": "Firlstraße 16, 12459 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "worship", "tags": ["history/holocaust/commemoration", "religion/christian"], "description": "A regional church service held in remembrance of the pogroms, taking place in a church in southern Berlin. The congregation of the Christuskirche Oberschöneweide invites people to attend, with the sermon given by pastor Döhle. The evening service is dedicated to remembering the pogroms. Visitors are welcome to join in shared remembrance and prayer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/regionaler-gottesdienst-zum-pogromgedenken-13954/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Nie wieder!", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Grips Theater im Podewil", "address": "Klosterstraße 68 10179 Berlin", "price": "10 €, ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/reading"], "description": "\"Nie wieder!\" is a musical reading in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. Three performers (Eva Blum, Michaela Hanser, Falk Berghofer) read from Inge Deutschkron's \"Ich trug den gelben Stern\", accompanied by Volker Ludwig's \"Zeitlosen Lieder\" from \"Ab heute heißt Du Sara\", newly arranged for choir. The vocal.ensemble.tempelhof as well as Matthias Witting with arrangements and piano take part. The evening is meant to be stirring and encouraging at once, dealing with humanity, solidarity and civil courage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nie-wieder-4635/", "official_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/spielplan/nie-wieder/3387", "image": ""}, {"title": "Erinnern für die Zukunft", "start": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Patmos Gemeinde", "address": "Gritznerstraße 18/20, 12163 Berlin-Steglitz", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "worship", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms"], "description": "\"Erinnern für die Zukunft\" (Remembering for the Future) is an occasion of remembrance for November 9, the day of the November pogroms of 1938. It is run by the Patmos Gemeinde in Berlin-Steglitz, whose page recalls the pogroms in which synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed and hundreds of Jews were killed. At its centre stands the biblical call \"Sachor\" – \"remember\": Christians commemorate the pogroms of 1938, and remembering the injustice is meant to help shape a future without antisemitism. The page also lists memorial gatherings, concerts, wreath-layings and further events in the church setting around the day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnern-fur-die-zukunft-94524/", "official_url": "https://www.patmos-gemeinde.de/und-der-welt/unser-gedenken/9-november-erinnern-fuer-die-zukunft", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db3bcf6daeaaf0f04e484d86a5657978baa0e06da7674a6792a28fe81739031c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Filme gegen das Vergessen", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kino Toni", "address": "Antonplatz 1 13086 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "Films against forgetting: the programme forms part of the seventh Jewish Film Days at the Kino Toni cinema in Berlin-Weißensee. It includes titles such as „Jakob der Lügner“, „Das siebte Kreuz“, „Zwischenfall in Benderath“, „Hotel Polan und seine Gäste“ and two films about the Comedian Harmonists. The week sets a sign against antisemitism, hatred between peoples and the forgetting of history, and is supported by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Every screening is followed by a film discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/filme-gegen-das-vergessen-97056/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/2K6G9/filme-gegen-das-vergessen?cHash=5992eb9d63fe5de026c7309c81d28052", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a466bebe8a42f5e2bbc284795c74127cb299f3d0c98dd27471ec2f518f2224e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gottesdienst zum Progromgedenken", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Evangelische Matthäus-Kirche Steglitz", "address": "Schloßstraße 44, 12165 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "worship", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms", "religion/christian/protestant"], "description": "A church service commemorating the November pogroms. It is organised by the Evangelische Matthäus-Kirchengemeinde Steglitz and led by Pastor Paulus Hecker. The service takes place at the Evangelische Matthäus-Kirche in Berlin-Steglitz and is held in German. It is listed in the service database of the Kirchenkreis Steglitz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gottesdienst-zum-progromgedenken-94525/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}]}