A picture of Rennelberg Prison, a multi-storey brick building with small barred windows. In the foreground are the courtyard, a concrete area and a lawn with tall lighting columns.

A view of the inner courtyard of Rennelberg Prison. A large gate in a high brick wall, behind which lies the former prison grounds. Barbed wire runs along the top of the wall; the surrounding residential buildings can be seen in the background.

An exterior view of Rennelberg Prison, a brick building with barred windows and an open passageway.

Talk: Why Remember? Nazi Crimes, Memorials and Relatives Today

in cooperation with the Memorial in Wolfenbüttel Prison

This talk will be about politically responsible remembrance culture and the preservation of historically significant sites as memorials. The relatives of former inmates and the director of the Memorial in Wolfenbüttel Prison will discuss this with the president of the Lower Saxony state parliament.

Dominique Verhaeghe represents the Belgian resistance group Lichtervelde. His grandfather, Dr. Louis Debaeke, was part of this resistance group and was executed in 1944 in Wolfenbüttel Prison. Marten Lutze is the grandson of the Braunschweig Social Democrat politician Robert Lutze, who was imprisoned between 1935 and 1937 in Rennelberg Prison. Together with Hanna Naber (SPD politician and president of the Lower Saxony state parliament) and Martina Staats (director of the Memorial in Wolfenbüttel Prison) they will talk about the significance a memorial in the former prison of Rennelberg might have.

Production credits

With: Hanna Naber, Martina Staats, Dominique Verhaeghe, Marten Lutze, Moderation: Katharina Wisotzki, Photos: Anton Vichrov