Events

On Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 2 pm, the exhibition "But I live. Remembering the Holocaust" will be opened at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum.

Programme

                Greetings | Andrea Genest, Director of the Ravensbrück Memorial  

                Introduction | Barbara Yelin, comic artist and curator & Jakob Hoffmann, curator

Following the event, there will be a guided tour through the exhibition by the curators at 3 p.m. The event will be simultaneously translated into English.

About the exhibition

Only a few survivors of the Holocaust are still alive today. Recording their memories therefore plays a central role. The multi-layered project "But I live ", a collaboration between survivors, comic artists, experts in Holocaust and human rights education, historians, libraries, and archives, tackles this task in an unusual way: It creates graphic stories for which there are virtually no existing documentary sources.

Emmie Arbel survived the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps as a young girl. David Schaffer escaped the genocide in Transnistria because he refused to comply with orders. The brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp, separated from their parents, were hidden from their persecutors by the Dutch resistance in 13 different places.

In close dialog with these four survivors, the internationally renowned illustrators Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar and Barbara Yelin created graphic reconstructions of their memories. These encounters resulted in graphic novels that explore questions of trauma, memory and survival.

The exhibition makes central aspects of the project accessible to a wide audience. Original drawings and other materials are presented. Above all, however, the process of creating these visual stories will unfold. In this way, a central aspect and specific and at the same time elementary approach of the project becomes visible and tangible: the development of a relationship between survivors and their storytellers. 

The exhibition has been redesigned and expanded for the memorial. The exhibition can be seen on the premises of the former Waterworks until July 31, 2024.

The event is part of the program for the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. The full program of the anniversary can be found here.

Please note: The RE5 trains (Rostock Hbf/Neustrelitz Hbf - Berlin Südkreuz) are cancelled between Oranienburg and Berlin Südkreuz in both directions. A replacement bus service has been organised between Oranienburg and Berlin Gesundbrunnen.

For the route Berlin --> Oranienburg we recommend the connection with the S1 to Frohnau. From there, a bus from the rail replacement service will run. From Oranienburg, the RE5 to Fürstenberg runs again.

Current information on route closures can be found here.

Venue

Ehemaliges Wasserwerk

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück

Straße der Nationen

16798 Fürstenberg/Havel