{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas", "address": "Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "The Ghosts of Lower Silesia", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar-expulsion", "society/migration"], "description": "A conversation about Lower Silesia and the traces of its German past. The philosopher and cultural theorist Leszek Koczanowicz, who grew up in Legnica, talks with the writer Karolina Kuszyk about living in other people's homes and the question of when an unfamiliar place becomes home. It covers the personal memories of the newcomers alongside the region's history, framed by welcomes from the directors of the Polish Institute Berlin and the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation. The discussion explores hauntology, asking how a seemingly bygone world continues to shape everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-ghosts-of-lower-silesia-31357/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/en/veranstaltung/ghosts-lower-silesia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/656889c41b642d3c64fa6be0bc5d4e286f0b16317bacb0e1ce350cd43c897b04-1200.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://www.grips-theater.de/de/service/Kartenkauf", "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": "Auf Signal… in den Tod", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Dorotheenstädtische Buchhandlung", "address": "Turmstraße 5, 10559 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/holocaust"], "description": "A talk on the deportation of Jews from the Moabit freight station during the Nazi era. Andreas Szagun, a former railway worker who has studied the topic since 1996, discusses the military background of the deportation tracks and the Reichsbahn's thoroughly organised involvement in the Shoah. The creation of the memorial site is also addressed. The event accompanies the exhibition by the association Sie waren Nachbarn e.V. in the display case in front of the Tiergarten town hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/auf-signal-in-den-tod-22285/", "official_url": "https://www.dorotheenstaedtische.de/event/auf-signal-in-den-tod/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ce400ebd39f450db110e2fd764c943bdbfa89f5b6db1c8270813e2766ba40fef-600.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": "Wider das Vergessen – Gedenken an die Reichspogromnacht", "start": "2026-11-09T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Evangelisches Gemeindezentrum Hellersdorf", "address": "Glauchauer Straße 7, 12627 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "occasion/memorial"], "description": "\"Wider das Vergessen - Gedenken an die Reichspogromnacht\" is a joint walk to Stolpersteine, where a rose is laid down in remembrance. The invitation comes from the Protestant congregation, which sets a sign against antisemitism with this walk. The small memorial plaques set into the pavement recall the fate of people who were persecuted, displaced or murdered during the Nazi era. This year the walk turns to the Stolpersteine in Biesdorf to learn more about the history of the people and families they commemorate; the walking distance is about 3 km, and public transport is used.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wider-das-vergessen-gedenken-an-die-reichspogromnacht-72362/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ef0707e0562289007c8912d8be506ecac48a4e8f479d5d15ff23f7e5609d059-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Queer und jüdisch im \"Dritten Reich\" und darüber hinaus", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mitte Museum", "address": "Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "religion/jewish", "society/queer"], "description": "Mitte Museum hosts an evening of talks about people who were both queer and Jewish. Four speakers shed light on Jewish-queer life stories between 1933 and 1945 and beyond, from Gertrude Sandmann to gay and lesbian Jews in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Paige Harouse, Hani Esther Indictor Portner, Jake Schneider and Rafael Nasemann present their topics, including the remembrance project \"Queere Held*innen\". A shared exchange follows; the event takes place in spoken German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/queer-und-judisch-im-dritten-reich-und-daruber-hinaus-12330/", "official_url": "https://www.mittemuseum.de/de/veranstaltung/2026/queer-und-juedisch-im-dritten-reich-und-darueber-hinaus", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e87ba75a48aad48550b6a7857f4cba5182c7ffc54c5048e82c91b74627345947-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Einblicke in die Sonderausstellung „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ (EN)", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T11:30:00+01:00", "place": "Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/german-polish-history"], "description": "This is an English-language guided tour through the special exhibition „OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche“ at the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung in Berlin. It is run by the Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung and opens up central themes, artistic positions and questions of the exhibition. At its core are the stories, memories and historical traces behind the photographic works, along with differing perspectives on remembrance, origin, loss and belonging. It lasts 40 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/einblicke-in-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodn-15590/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/einblicke-die-sonderausstellung-ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11478a75d7c252eb1ad291b44fda2b13bd88a61ae00e42b8ae24e8aae8c988cb-600.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": "Pogromgedenken", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hofkirche Köpenick", "address": "Bahnhofstraße 9, 12555 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A commemoration of the pogrom night of 9 November 1938, when synagogues burned across Germany. The Christians of the Hofkirche in Köpenick invite their district not only to remember the past but to take responsibility for the present. The event takes place in the church itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pogromgedenken-72554/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"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": "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": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://renaissance-theater.de/produktion/stefan-juergens-bram-stokers-dracula/?source=bde", "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"}, {"title": "Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie. Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche", "start": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar-expulsion"], "description": "This special photography exhibition, \"Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie\", brings together ten German and Polish photographers, among them Karolina Gembara, Annette Hauschild and Wojtek Sienkiewicz. It is presented by the Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation (SFVV) in cooperation with the OSTKREUZ photographers' agency, marking the 35th anniversary of the German-Polish Treaty of Good Neighbourship. The works offer German and Polish views of a shared space of memory in Poland, the former eastern territories of the German Reich, which many Germans associate with flight, expulsion and the loss of home. Memory, identity and transformation are the themes, and Karolina Gembara is the artistic curator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuc-2668/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/news/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuche", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dafd087f1cb7e1690eb5e4904e2811803f0687222edd190bbb0d2afc43336dc1-1200.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, "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}