{"title": "In Erinnerung an Klaus Hesse (13. April 1955 – 31. März 2026)", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A memorial event for Klaus Hesse (1955–2026), who from 1986 helped prepare the documentation “Topographie des Terrors” and shaped the Documentation Centre's permanent exhibition. After a welcome by director Dr. Andrea Riedle, Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama speaks on Hesse as exhibition curator and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Paul on the state and perspectives of visual history. Hesse was a respected expert in visual history and remained connected to the institution even after retirement. Admission is free; registration by 27 October is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-erinnerung-an-klaus-hesse-13-april-1955-31-marz-2026-12690/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/in-erinnerung-an-klaus-hesse-13-april-1955-31-maerz-2026", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Stand und Perspektiven der Visual History", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history"], "description": "A talk titled \"Stand und Perspektiven der Visual History\" at the Topographie des Terrors memorial site in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The speaker is Prof. Dr. Gerhard Paul, retired professor of history and its didactics at the Europa-Universität Flensburg. No further details about the content are given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/stand-und-perspektiven-der-visual-history-30441/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Topographie des Terrors", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-09-10T20:00:00+02:00", "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.topographie.de/shop/detail/topographie-des-terrors", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "\"Topographie des Terrors\" is a permanent exhibition in Berlin documenting the site where the Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office once had their headquarters. The museum presents historical photographs, documents and texts on the leading SS and police institutions of the Nazi regime and the crimes they committed across Europe, arranged in five chapters spanning the seizure of power through the postwar period. The exhibition is bilingual in German and English, lasts about 60 minutes and includes an audio guide in 22 languages.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/topographie-des-terrors-15280/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/ausstellungen/topographie-des-terrors", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18e40427fc434a980f7264cc787a043dd8061a669865faa401ab571818c495b3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Der Holocaust – Was wussten die Deutschen?", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-30T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.topographie.de/shop/detail/der-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deutschen-the-holocaust-what-did-the-germans-know", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "\"Der Holocaust – Was wussten die Deutschen?\" is a special exhibition of the Stiftung Topographie des Terrors in Berlin. It asks which information about the Holocaust was accessible in the German Reich and what people who were neither directly involved in the crimes nor persecuted themselves perceived and did with their knowledge. Three parts structure the show: „Propaganda\" on what the Nazi regime publicly announced about the persecution and murder of Jewish people, „Hinweise im Alltag\" on rumours and unofficial reports of the mass killings, and „Vom Puzzleteil zum Bild\" on how individuals combined information to form an overall picture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/der-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deutschen-3490/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/ausstellungen/der-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deutschen#1-1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab36fec63965aba6e5069f21da260ded11abab0d7014b5e6191ee66a030a0163-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Besuch der Sonderausstellung: „Holocaust - Was wussten die Deutschen?“", "start": "2026-11-07T11:15:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T12:30:00+01:00", "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/holocaust", "society/queer"], "description": "A guided visit for queer FLINTA* people through the special exhibition „Holocaust – Was wussten die Deutschen?“ at Topographie des Terrors, held as part of the weeks against antisemitism. The invitation comes from LesLeFam (Treffpunkt LesLeFam), while the tour itself is led by a person from Topographie des Terrors. It addresses the historical connections and the different forms of knowledge, partial knowledge and looking away during the National Socialist era. The group aims to create a shared space for critically engaging with Nazi history and culture of remembrance; the event takes place in German spoken language and is a sober (alcohol-free) event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/besuch-der-sonderausstellung-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deuts-26966/", "official_url": "https://leslefam.de/event/commnity-ausflug-zur-sonderausstellung-holocaust-was-wussten-die-deutschen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd8c934a184d389b7adf2e95182383da1e177521d9ba3a921bc42bc7231945c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Führung: On the Roof of Himmler's Guesthouse", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/nazi-era"], "description": "A free guided tour of the special exhibition \"On the Roof of Himmler's Guesthouse\" in the garden of the Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz memorial and educational site. Curator Judith Alberth presents the exhibition, which is based on documents and photographs by Fritz Traugott: he fled anti-Semitic persecution to the USA in 1938, returned as a US soldier, and was billeted with a unit of so-called \"Ritchie Boys\" in the former SS guesthouse on the Wannsee, where he sent his wife Lucia letters and photos almost daily. The meeting point is in the main building at the reception desk; no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-on-the-roof-of-himmlers-guesthouse-12038/", "official_url": "https://www.ghwk.de/de/termine/termin/fuehrung-on-the-roof-of-himmlers-guesthouse-12", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de4b974f3b53cfe17ecd532cf4d50edd9dca8f2400998135d7b168a9d24431a4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wie erinnern wir? Wie erinnerst du?", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-05-09T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit", "address": "Britzer Straße 5, 12439 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A special exhibition about the changing nature and significance of remembrance. The Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit presents it at the historical site of a former Nazi forced labor camp, using objects from its collection to show personal, family and public forms of remembering forced labor. Students from Archenhold-Gymnasium, participants of an international youth encounter and local neighbors co-created the exhibition. Interactive stations invite visitors to do their own research and reflect on the past, present and future of remembrance and its meaning for a democratic society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wie-erinnern-wir-wie-erinnerst-du-11738/", "official_url": "https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/ausstellungen/wie-erinnern-wir", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a9684c4e4a2ad3f75a44fe128a583c6f95747a086e276b444c5f0cd9eeb83476-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945. Geschichte und Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas", "address": "Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "A lecture and discussion event about the history of Kraków under German occupation from 1939 to 1945 and the everyday life of the different population groups, including the complete exclusion of the Jewish population, the ghetto established in Podgórze and the concentration camp in Płaszów. It is jointly hosted by the Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, the Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa and the Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas together with the Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Berlin. Following an introductory talk by Isabel Röskau-Rydel, Edyta Gawron, Stephan Lehnstaedt and Isabel Röskau-Rydel will discuss; the conversation is moderated by Uwe Neumärker. Present-day places and forms of remembrance of the Nazi crimes in Poland's second-largest city are also addressed; the event takes place in German and Polish with simultaneous interpretation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-19391945-geschichte-und-eri-28577/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-denkmal.de/aktuelles/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-1939-1945-geschichte-und-erinnerung/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f8e01a7188752997003a3a48931e9cf80cb11d7ca882459f51e5e9938ce45d45-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Themenführung zum Gedenken an die Novemberpogrome 1938", "start": "2026-11-09T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "3,00 € (zzgl. Eintritt)", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era"], "description": "This themed tour of the German Historical Museum commemorates the November pogroms of 1938. It asks about the relationship between violence and racism as well as colonial and National Socialist practices of rule, disenfranchisement and persecution. Using selected exhibits – from racial-theory charts and everyday objects of exclusion to photographs and testimonies of the pogrom night itself – it leads visitors together through the exhibition rooms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/themenfuhrung-zum-gedenken-an-die-novemberpogrome-1938-24448/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/themenfuehrung-zum-gedenken-an-die-novemberpogrome-1938-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0d782852d3217e89b95137edbebd86f2c9e2fa5c43ff793e2da97c397a172d74-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Besprechung am Wannsee und der Mord an den europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden", "start": "2026-10-24T10:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-10-24T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Haus der Wannseekonferenz", "address": "Am Großen Wannsee 58, 14109 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "The permanent exhibition \"Die Besprechung am Wannsee und der Mord an den europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden\" tells the history of exclusion, deportations and mass murder through the prism of the Wannsee Conference. It spans nine rooms of the villa on Lake Wannsee. At its centre is the conference of 20 January 1942, which took place in the former dining room. The events are documented through perpetrator files, victims' testimony, photos and audio and film sequences.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-besprechung-am-wannsee-und-der-mord-an-den-europaischen-33707/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Katastrophe – Öffentliche Führung", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Jüdisches Museum", "address": "Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin", "price": "Führung 6 €, ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.jmberlin.de/events/496/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A public tour through the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin, focusing on the historical era room „Katastrophe“. Hundreds of decrees issued against Jews between 1933 and 1945 are displayed as an installation on large banners hanging from the ceiling, alongside a map projection showing violent attacks. Objects such as „Judensterne“ and personal documents tell of attempts to flee Germany and of Jewish resistance. An introduction to the museum building's iconic architecture is part of the tour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/katastrophe-offentliche-fuhrung-12093/", "official_url": "https://www.jmberlin.de/oeffentliche-fuehrung-katastrophe-auf-englisch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9ded4ea9532857846b4999919262e37e2da948a168bf139fa016bbc3462c499-600.webp"}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticket.volksbuehne-berlin.de/eventim.webshop/webticket/shop?event=23831", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« – Fluchthelfer Klaus-M. von Keussler", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Bildungsseminare", "address": "Brunnenstraße 142, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/barrierefreiheitserklaerung/barrierefreiheitserklaerung-online-shop.html", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr"], "description": "»Zeitzeugen im Gespräch« is a talk with escape helper Klaus-M. von Keussler, hosted by Berliner Unterwelten e.V. at their Bildungsseminare. At its center is his »Tunnel-Tagebuch« (tunnel diary), into which he wrote with passion on 8 January 1964: »Freiheit kennt keine Mauern« (freedom knows no walls). It is about the fourth tunnel (the »Kohlenplatz-Tunnel«), in which he took part and which was brought to an end by East German border guards and/or members of the East German state security. The then 24-year-old gives a firsthand account of this escape assistance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zeitzeugen-im-gesprach-fluchthelfer-klaus-m-von-keussler-24451/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-berichten.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d99249268b72e2d26d77febcf0499ea23798b1d566d071880580824136b7b09d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Themenführung anlässlich des Gedenktags an die Novemberpogrome von 1938 (IN ENGLISCH9", "start": "2026-11-10T13:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Deutsches Historisches Museum Pei-Bau", "address": "Hinter dem Gießhaus 3 10117 Berlin", "price": "3,00 € (zzgl. Eintritt)", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "3.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era/pogroms"], "description": "A themed tour through the exhibition on the occasion of the memorial day of the November Pogroms of 1938. It explores issues of colonial and National Socialist violence using selected exhibits, ranging from panels on racial theory to everyday objects of exclusion, as well as photographs and eyewitness accounts of the pogroms. The tour focuses on the relationship between violence and racism, and on colonial and National Socialist practices of domination, disenfranchisement and persecution. The public tour is aimed at adults.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/themenfuhrung-anlasslich-des-gedenktags-an-die-novemberpogro-24450/", "official_url": "https://www.dhm.de/veranstaltung/themed-tour-on-the-occasion-of-the-memorial-day-of-the-november-pogroms-of-1938/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Krakau unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945. Geschichte und Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Topographie des Terrors", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii"], "description": "A panel discussion with a lecture on the history of Kraków under German occupation from 1939 to 1945 and how it is remembered today. Isabel Röskau-Rydel gives the introductory lecture; Edyta Gawron, Stephan Lehnstaedt and Isabel Röskau-Rydel take part in the panel, moderated by Uwe Neumärker. The event sheds light on the everyday life of the various population groups under German civil administration, the persecution of the Jewish population, the ghetto in Podgórze and the Płaszów concentration camp, and the annihilation of the Jewish population and the intellectual elite. It also looks at present-day places and forms of remembrance of the Nazi crimes in Poland's second-largest city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-19391945-geschichte-und-eri-12691/", "official_url": "https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen/detail/krakau-unter-deutscher-besatzung-1939-1945-geschichte-und-erinnerung", "image": ""}, {"title": "Nova Tribe Voices – Erinnern. Zuhören. Verstehen.", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin", "address": "Köpenicker Allee 39-57, 10318 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/terrorism", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "„Nova Tribe Voices – Erinnern. Zuhören. Verstehen.“ is an evening of conversation with Tamir Leshetz and Yuval Siman Tov, survivors of the terror attack on the Nova music festival in Israel on 7 October 2023. The Universität der Künste Berlin invites guests, and the journalist Anina Pommerenke moderates the talk. It centres on the speakers' personal experiences and their aftermath, on remembrance, social responsibility and understanding after traumatic events. The evening is hosted by Dr. Michaela Conen, process officer for the prevention of antisemitism at the UdK Berlin, together with contact persons from other universities; afterwards there will be audience questions and an open discussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nova-tribe-voices-erinnern-zuhoren-verstehen-79972/", "official_url": "https://www.khsb-berlin.de/hochschule/service/nachrichten/nova-tribe-voices-erinnern-zuhoeren-verstehen.html", "image": ""}, {"title": "\"Juden morden : Der 9. November und 7. Oktober in welthistorischer Sicht\" - Kapellengespräch mit Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche", "address": "Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/antisemitism"], "description": "A chapel talk at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche on the connection between the commemoration of the October 7 massacre and the November 9, 1938 pogrom night in world-historical perspective. It addresses how the belief that pogroms ended with the founding of Israel and that Jews can live safely in Germany has proven an illusion. The talk is led by the renowned historian and publicist Prof. Dr. Michael Wolffsohn, a leading expert on international politics and German-Jewish relations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/juden-morden-der-9-november-und-7-oktober-in-welthistorische-28166/", "official_url": "https://www.gedaechtniskirche-berlin.de/programm/veranstaltungsueberblick/veranstaltung/49839981?cHash=74d0e677af934672aaf9c582b2999fe1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e308f91e8a2de0ef7f5feae4e3e40ba1abca90831315cc8598b0e7c0d606a23a-1200.webp"}]}