Live Streaming | Subaltern Memories 2025. The Disavowed

Follow the conference “The Disavowed: Asocials and Professional Criminals under Nazism and Fascism” live from Cologne (Nov 6–7), jointly organized by EUROM, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation, and the NS Documentation Center.

Agenda

4:00 p.m. – Guided tour of the exhibition with curators Ulrich Baumann, Oliver Gaida, Laura López Mras, and Christa Schikorra

06:00 p.m. – Keynote by the organisers and supporting iinstitutions

Henning Borgräffe, director of the NS-DOK
Marie Kapretz, Head of the Delegation of the Catalan Government to Germany
Ulrich Baumann, Deputy Director of the Memorial Foundation of the Murdered Jews of Europe
Jordi Guixé, director of the EUROM

06:30 p.m. – Round Table: Over a Decade of Struggle for the »Disavowed«: What’s Been Achieved?

Andreas Kranebitter, Wien, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW)
Ines Eichmüller, Nuremberg, Association for the Remembrance of the Disavowed Victims of National Socialism (Vevon)
Daniel Haberlah, Braunschweig, relative and historian,Association for the Remembrance of the Disavowed Victims of National Socialism (Vevon)
Ulrike Winkler, Trier, Advisory Board of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

09:30 a.m. – Opening Words

10:00 a.m. – First Panel: Continuities and Changes of Exclusionary Politics – Experiences in Different Systems of Rule

César Lorenzo Rubio, Barcelona
Criminalization of Social Deviance in Franco’s Dictatorship: from Vagrancy to Dangerousness Law (1933-1978)
Øystein Hetland, Oslo
Anomaly or Continuity? The Persecution of »Outsiders« in Occupied Norway
Jens Jäger, Cologne
Not so Hidden Persecution – Interpols Activity During WWII

11:45 a.m. – Second Panel: Unknown Persecution in Occupied Territories – Untold Stories of Violence

Pavla Plachá, Prague
»Protection of the National Community« in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Overlooked Fates of the »Asocials« and »Career Criminals« Deported to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Jérôme Courtoy / Daniel Thilman, Esch-sur-Alzette / Luxembourg
Denied, Forgotten,Rediscovered: Social-racist Persecution in Occupied Luxembourg
Rense Havinga, Groesbeek
Researching Prisoners Labelled as »Asocial« in Concentration Camps in the Netherlands

02:15 p.m. – Third Panel: Memories, Memorials, Members of Subaltern Groups

Joanna Ostrowska, Warsaw
History of Marginalized Groups and Their Place in the Polish Politics of Memory
Núria Ricart Ulldemolins, Barcelona
Memory as Process. Les Corts Women’s Prison – an Unfinished Place
Pascal Luongo, Marseille
Marseille 1943, a City and Its Inhabitants Targeted: Anatomy of a Crime Against Humanity

04:00 p.m. – Closing remarks
Stefanie Endlich, Berlin

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