International Conference Perpetrators: Challenges and Chances of Presentations in Memorial Museums Presented by the International Committee of Memorial Museum for the Remembrance of Victims of Public Crimes (IC MEMO) and the Wewelsburg District Museum in co-operation with the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the Dresden University of Technology and the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Nordrhein-Westfalen October 6-9, 2010 Wewelsburg, Büren, Germany Program Wednesday, October 6, 2010 19:00 Public Lecture (in German) Location: Burgsaal, Wewelsburg District Museum Vojtech Blodig, Terezín Memorial, Czech Republic „Verfolgung und Deportation der europäischen Juden – Das Beispiel Theresienstadt“ Bus transfer to Paderborn, Meinwerk-Institut Thursday, October 7, 2010 9:00 Bus transfer from Paderborn Location: Burgsaal, Wewelsburg District Museum 10:00 Welcome to the Conference Vojtech Blodig, Chairperson IC MEMO Heinz Köhler, Kreisdirektor, District Administration Paderborn Wulff E. Brebeck, Director Wewelsburg District Museum Memorial Museum „Wewelsburg 1933-1945“: exhibition, historical location and educational approaches 10:15 Visit of the new permanent Exhibition „Ideology and Terror of the SS“ (Wulff E. Brebeck, Kirsten John-Stucke, Markus Moors, Jan Erik Schulte) 12:30 Lunch 13:30 Visit of the former Niederhagen Concentration Camp area and of the former SS shooting range (Wulff E. Brebeck, Kirsten John-Stucke, Markus Moors) 15:00 Coffee break 15:30 Presentation of Wewelsburg Learning Center and pedagogical approaches to the new permanent exhibition (Kirsten John-Stucke, Katharina Dehlinger, Norbert Ellermann) 18:00 Dinner Bus transfer to Paderborn 20:00 Evening leasurly walk through medivial Paderborn Friday, October 8, 2010 9:00 Bus transfer from Paderborn Location: Burgsaal, Wewelsburg District Museum 10:00 – 12:15 Perpetrator Representation in Memorial Museums Chair: Jan Erik Schulte Thomas Lutz,Topography of Terror Foundation, Germany „Memorial Museums in Germany – Specifically Dealing with perpetratiors. Overview and Question“ Heiki Ahonen, Kistler-Ritso Estonian Foundation, Estonia „Dealing with the recent past in Baltic countries: Between Red Star and Black Swastika - difficult choices“ 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch 13:15 – 15:30 Educational Approaches Chair: Kirsten John-Stucke Karen Franklin, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, U.S.A. „Educational Aporaches at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: Keeping History Center, the Morgenthaus, and Research on Rescue – The Lehman Family“ Christine Pieper, Dresdner Geschichtsbüro, Germany „Dealing with Nazi-Perpetrators in Dresden. An East- German City 20 Years after the Fall of the Iron Curtain“ Tom Wulf, Geschichtsort Villa ten Hompel, Germany „Educating about Perpetrators at a former Perpetrator Location: The Villa ten Hompel in Muenster, Germany“ 15:30 Coffee break 16:00 Return to Paderborn 16:30 Memorial Museum News I Location: Aspethera-Hotel, Paderborn Angelle Ginebra, Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance, Dominican Republic „Memorial Museums in the Dominican Republic and in Latin America“ (preliminary title) 17:00 IC MEMO membership meeting and board election (IC MEMO members and guests) 20:00 Reception by the Landrat of the District of Paderborn (only IC MEMO members and speakers) Saturday, October 9, 2010 Location: Aspethera-Hotel, Paderborn 9:00 Memorial Museum News II Günther Morsch, Concentration Camp Memorial Sachsenhausen, Germany „A Memorial Museum Charta“ 12:00 end of conference Registration Deadline: 1st October 2010 Registration for the conference: Wewelsburg District Museum Beate Meier via [email protected] Fon: +49 (0)2955 7622 19 Fax: +49 (0)2955 7622 22 Hotel bookings for IC MEMO members: Please give the keyword „Wewelsburg“, if you book your accommodation in the Meinwerk-Institut. Please contact the Wewelsburg District Museum, after you have booked in the below hotel. Hotel: Meinwerk-Institut Nadine Mono Giersmauer 35 33098 Paderborn Germany [email protected] [email protected] Tel. +49 (0)5251/29 08-0 Fax. +49 (0)5251/29 08-68 The rates of the hotel are the following: if they are less than 10 guests of our group, we have to pay 49,- Euro for one night in a single room incl. Breakfast, if we are more than 10 guests, we only have to pay 42,- Euro p. night. Conference fee: For IC MEMO-members free (accomodation and travel have to be organized individually) for non-IC MEMO-members: 30 EUR (lunch, coffee, conference organization only; accomodation and travel as well as evening dinner have to be organized individually) .