History Workshop

As part of this year's Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism on January 27, the History Workshop of the Institute for Contemporary History and City Presentation of the City of Wolfsburg invited four young people to share their thoughts on this day with the public. Marie Rauschenberger will deal with current events in the world and the fragility of democracy in her contribution. Felix Bauer will focus his contribution on the extermination camps Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, which are a marginal phenomenon in public perception. Building on Felix Bauer's work, Amber Koslowski has conducted a survey on the three camps as well as on Auschwitz and other topics, the results of which will be presented in her contribution, and Théo Schiffer spoke with Jean-Michel Gaussot, whose father was a prisoner at the Laagberg subcamp.

The archivedidactic model developed in Wolfsburg, "Get to the sources", forms the basis of the educational work. The claim and goal of the history workshop is to promote a reflected historical awareness as well as action competence and personal responsibility among the users. Accordingly, the institution sees itself as an educational center and is an official extracurricular place of learning.

The group of works by the artist Andreas von Weizsäcker consists of ten frottages with which messages of former Soviet forced laborers were fixed, which they had carved into the barks of various Wolfsburg trees before or shortly after the end of the Second World War.