{"title": "Himmlers geraubte Kinder", "start": "2026-11-19T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Babylon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "„Himmlers geraubte Kinder“ is a documentary film by Christoph Schwarz, screening at the Babylon cinema. Over 80 years ago Himmler's SS men kidnapped around 200,000 children from Poland and Slovenia; to this day the victims receive no compensation from the German government. A petition filed in 2022 by the association „geraubte Kinder - vergessene Opfer“ led the petitions committee to decide positively in May and call on the federal government to examine a “compensation solution at federal level.” After the screening there will be a talk with contemporary witness Anton Model, whose mother, a Ukrainian forced laborer, had her son forcibly taken from her, followed by a discussion; relatives of former stolen children will also attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/himmlers-geraubte-kinder-32294/", "official_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/film/4647-himmlers-geraubte-kinder", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c90197ffa8167a3f01ed01470b07559532cf78e3b5da2109124ff46ec88b8344-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T17:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Babylon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Das Himmler-Projekt", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+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", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "„Das Himmler-Projekt“ is a documentary in which actor Manfred Zapatka, at a lectern, reads the transcript of a speech by Heinrich Himmler before 92 SS officers, created from the original audio recording. The secret speeches from Posen are known today because they openly speak of the murder of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war and forced labourers. Director Romuald Karmakar confines himself to a few changes of shot size and camera perspective. Film historian Tilman Schumacher introduces the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/das-himmler-projekt-10168/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/zeughauskino/vorfuehrung/default-title-14835/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5ab2562a095cffcf263ea675461eb4c7157d91a6f96eaa30011fddb6993d3b17-1200.webp"}, {"title": "\"Bilder der Verbrecher\" – Filmische Blicke auf Täter im Nationalsozialismus | im RegenbogenKino", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "RegenbogenKino", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A screening with a short introduction and a following discussion, showing „2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß“ by director Malte Ludin. The film takes as its starting point the filmmaker's own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent in 1941 as envoy to Slovakia to enforce Berlin's interests there, above all the „Endlösung“. After the war Hanns Ludin was handed over, sentenced to death and executed in 1947. Together with his siblings and relatives, the director speaks openly about denial, loyalty and shame within his own family, asking whether the father was a hero and martyr or a criminal.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-filmische-blicke-auf-tater-im-national-96879/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7cfd982ec87ccb66a9a6e4d37179fce25438688ff6403db252ab633b51dec5d-600.webp"}, {"title": "2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Bildungswerk Berlin der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung", "address": "Olivaer Platz 16, 10707 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "The evening shows Malte Ludin's documentary \"2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß\", framed by a short introduction and a concluding discussion with historian Sophia Schmitz and social scientist Dirk Reinink. In the film, the director approaches his own father, the Nazi diplomat Hanns Ludin, whom Hitler sent to Slovakia in 1941 as envoy to enforce Berlin's interests, above all the \"Final Solution\". Sixty years after the end of the war, the director and his siblings speak openly about repression, loyalty and shame within their family, while relatives embellish, deny or suppress the truth about the father. The film is a rare and unsparing document of how the Nazi past continues to affect later generations and how differently one family can deal with the same history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-wei-21940/", "official_url": "https://calendar.boell.de/de/event/der-vater-das-schweigen-und-reden-film-2-oder-3-dinge-die-ich-von-ihm-weiss", "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": "Transport aus dem Paradies | Die Enkelinnen", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A matinee combining a screening of „Transport aus dem Paradies“ with the ensuing talk „Die Enkelinnen“. The multi-award-winning Czechoslovak film, directed by Zbyněk Brynych in 1962, is based on Arnošt Lustig's story „Nacht und Hoffnung“ and is set in 1944 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where the Nazis had a propaganda film made that pretended a normal camp life with fulfilling work and rich cultural activity, while all participants were afterwards deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, to which the title bitterly ironicly alludes. In the talk, Eva Lustigová, daughter of Arnošt Lustig, and Jacqueline Gies, granddaughter of the personal secretary of Karl Hermann Frank, a key figure of the Nazi terror in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, speak, moderated by Aya Zarfati and Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz. The event is a cooperation of the Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz with the Arnošt Lustig Stiftungsfonds, the Kulturreferat für die böhmischen Länder im Adalbert Stifter Verein, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Berlin and the Czech Centre Berlin, funded by the Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen-12040/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/transport-aus-dem-paradies-die-enkelinnen", "image": "https://noky.io/images/acd4478464de2bf7ee35d38e4781dc246c97ef81b488ce2ac6f8820f1c1d86bc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bilder der Verbrecher", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Regenbogenfabrik", "address": "Lausitzer Straße 21a, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/holocaust"], "description": "„Ein Spezialist“ by Eyal Sivan is a documentary assembled entirely from original footage of the 1961 Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. From around 500 hours of video, of which 350 hours survive today, it builds an absorbing portrait of the defendant Adolf Eichmann, accused of the mass deportation of people, mostly Jews, to the extermination camps. Guided by Hannah Arendt's notion of the „Banalität des Bösen“, the film shows Eichmann not as a monster but as an unremarkable bureaucrat hiding behind procedural rules. The screening is framed by a short introduction and a concluding discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/bilder-der-verbrecher-73102/", "official_url": "https://regenbogenfabrik.de/bilder-der-verbrecher/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a408e723b5c698c1dff05acdbc3c83638676695b07f78c56397095a3c45602e6-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"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": ""}, {"title": "Civic Engagement Excursion to KulturMarktHalle with Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Antisemitism", "start": "2026-11-09T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-09T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/nazi-era", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "A civic engagement excursion to KulturMarktHalle with a tour of the site, its history and today's activities, followed by a film screening and a panel discussion. It is organized by the civic engagement office of Bard College Berlin; the film shown is „Mein Berlin - Ein Ort mit Gedächtnis“ (with English subtitles), portraying how six Jewish people experienced the city of Berlin in 2025. After the screening, the film's director and the spokesperson on antisemitism and antidiscrimination in Pankow will hold a discussion. The screening and panel mark the anniversary of the 9 November 1938 pogroms against Jewish people in Germany and Austria.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/civic-engagement-excursion-to-kulturmarkthalle-with-film-scr-132449/", "official_url": "https://berlin.bard.edu/events/civic-engagement-excursion-to-kulturmarkthalle-with-film-screening-panel-discussion-on-antisemitism", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd1335451cdcc36d29dbf4115307f9dc5f2c9f3b58a7652aa02ef6c506116727-2000.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": "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": "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": "ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?", "start": "2026-11-09T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "16/9 EURO", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"ZEIT-Recherchen: War Opa ein Nazi?\" is a talk as part of a discourse event on the anniversary of the November pogroms of 1938. Caterina Lobenstein speaks with Götz Aly and Christian Staas, in cooperation with DIE ZEIT. Millions of Germans were in the Wehrmacht and the NSDAP, yet many of their descendants knew nothing about it; recently anyone can search the membership files for relatives with just a few clicks. The discussion asks what looking into one's own family reveals about German culture of remembrance, when coming to terms with the past becomes honest confrontation or merely a soothing ritual, and how remembrance changes as more Germans have no personal connection to the Nazi era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi-3781/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/zeit-recherchen-war-opa-ein-nazi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75b21b28fad8ef289a588522ebde26e73b59e215f54fa8e020ae894cc2067f44-600.webp"}]}