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Some were neighbors
Opening hours
The exhibition "Some were neighbors" opens
between 10.09.2023 - 09.11.2023 usually every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday between 14:00 and 18:00
Free guided tours are offered during these periods. To avoid double bookings, please book an appointment on the next page.
Stemwede under National Socialism
The accompanying program
- 10.09.23, 10:00 a.m. Opening event "Some were neighbors"
Free admission - Wehdem meeting place - 10.09.23, 14:00 - 18:00 Theme day "Jewish life"
Free admission - Heimathaus Levern - 10.09.23, 16:00 Visit to the Jewish cemetery, guided tour with retired pastor Thomas Horst
Free admission - crossroads Alter Postweg (L770)/Hollweder Straße - 13.09.23, 18:00 How normal people became mass murderers
A lecture by Thomas Ramm, social worker and reserve officer
Free admission - Wehdem meeting place - 01.10.23, 14:00 - 18:00 Theme day "Jewish life"
Free admission - Heimathaus Levern - 08.10.23, 14:30 Classical ensemble "Hevenu Shalom"
A concert program of classical Jewish music
Admission free - Heimathaus Wehdem - 09.10.23, 19:30 JFK Stemwede: Klezmer concert "crazy freilach"
Contemporary klezmer music and Yiddish singing
20 euros / reduced 18 euros - Begegnungsstätte Wehdem - 25.10.23, 19:30 JFK Stemwede: Kabarett(isten) im KZ
The Frankfurt music cabaret artist Jo van Nelsen tells of the fates of imprisoned artists in a gramophone reading
15 euros / reduced 13 euros - Begegnungsstätte Wehdem - 03.11.23, 14:00 - 18:00 Theme day "Jewish life"
Free admission - Heimathaus Levern - 09.11.23, 11:00 a.m. Closing with reading: "Amon"
Jennifer Teege learned by chance: her grandfather was the concentration camp commander from "Schindler's List" - Amon Göth
Free admission - Wehdem meeting place
Stemwede under National Socialism
Our supporters
Whether through voluntary work, scientific advice, guide training, technical implementation or financial support: a large number of people and organizations have helped to make our project a reality. Many thanks to our dedicated helpers and supporters who made the individual measures possible in the first place!
Stemwede under National Socialism
The motif
The subject is distantly based on the painting "The Banality of the Banality of Evil" by the street artist Bansky.
A middle-aged man in a Wehrmacht uniform sits with a young girl on a bench on Stemweder Berg and looks out over the municipality of Stemwede. Next to him is a travel bag. The picture is open to interpretation, each person gets an individual impression of the event and connects it with different emotions.
On the one hand, the picture is intended to illustrate the silence between the generations that prevailed in the post-war years and often did not allow any discourse on the subject of National Socialism. On the other hand, it is intended to illustrate this: It was normal people who also became victims and/or perpetrators in Stemwede during the Nazi dictatorship. They had families, were neighbors, were an active or passive part of the Nazi state.
The exhibition is intended to provide a look back at this time and enable people to approach the topic of "National Socialism in Stemwede" and to confront the effects of the National Socialist dictatorship on their own biography.
Stemwede under National Socialism
Our own research
The following (online) archives are suitable for starting your own research on National Socialism in Stemwede and the region:
- The Lübbecke town archive
- The Federal Archives
- The central database of Yad Vashem
- The Forced Labor Archive of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- The research database of the USHMM
- The Media Archive of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
- The State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Brochure on the culture of remembrance in the Minden-Lübbecke district
- Porta Westfalica Memorial
- Yad Vashem Archive
- Petershagen Synagogue
Some were neighbors
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us:
E-Mail: ausstellung@zuhause-in-stemwede.de