About the project

IBB/ Robin Hinsch

The exhibition “Maly Trostenets Extermination Site: History and Remembrance” was produced as part of a German-Belarusian collaborative project established in 2014 and involving historians from Belarus, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. The international advisory board comprises representatives from the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, the Topography of Terror, the Jewish Museum in Prague, Terezín Memorial, the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War and the Association of Jewish Organisations and Communities in Belarus. The exhibition honours the victims and also shows how and where they are commemorated in Belarus, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. It aims to promote public awareness of Maly Trostenets as a European site of crimes and of remembrance. The project partners are the International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB) in Dortmund, the Johannes Rau International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB) in Minsk and the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. The exhibition was originally funded by the German War Graves Commission and the German Federal Foreign Office. It opened on 8 November 2016 in Hamburg and was subsequently shown in over 30 locations in Belarus, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. The online version of the exhibition and its translation into English represent the next important stage in raising greater international public awareness of the history of Maly Trostenets extermination site. We are particularly grateful to the German Federal Foreign Office for its financial support for this phase of the project.

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

Here you see pictures from different places where the exhibition was presented. Impressions from Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, Lüneburg, Terezin

IBB

AUSSTELLUNGSORTE

Local modules and additional elements were also created at various exhibition locations. In this online exhibition you can see the module on Ozarichi and the victim biographies of the Rennert family and Valentina Shishlo as well as the perpetrator biography of Arthur Harder. 

Persons

Project partners

International Centre for Education and Exchange (Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk gGmbH, IBB), Dortmund
Manager: Peter Junge-Wentrup(former Director), Astrid Sahm (Director)
Johannes Rau International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB), Minsk
Director: Viktor Balakirev
Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
Director: Uwe Neumärker

Project leaders

Sabrina Bobowski (formerly IBB Minsk), Adam Kerpel-Fronius (Foundation Memorial), Darija Fabijanic (IBB Dortmund, online version)

Text

Amélie zu Eulenburg, Adam Kerpel-Fronius, Uwe Neumärker
Additional texts: House of History Austria, Institute for History of Frankfurt
Research: Aliaksandr Dalhouski, Adam Kerpel-Fronius, Amélie zu Eulenburg, Sabrina Bobowski
with the assistance of: Kristiane Janeke, Natalja Jazkewitsch
Editing and revision: Uwe Neumärker, Sarah Friedrich, Adam Kerpel-Fronius

TRANSLATION

Translation into Russian, Belarusian: Sjarhej Paulawizki
Russian, Belarusian translation revised by: Aliaksandr Dalhouski, Sjarhej Paulawizki
Translation into English: Caroline Pearce
English translation revised by: Darija Fabijanic, Adam Kerpel-Fronius

DESIGN

Maps: Linksbündig GbR, Berlin and Wiesbaden, with the assistance of Alexander Valder
Administration
Marianne Emge, Anja Lieweke
IT, media presentation
Uwe Seemann, Kaj Kunstheim
Online design: Susanne Benzing, Studio Benzing
Web development: Iquadart, Grodno
Additional modules: Austrian House of History, Institute for the History of Frankfurt

Advisory board

Tomáš Fedorovič (Terezín Memorial), Anna Galinskaya (Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War), Kristiane Janeke (Tradicia-History Service), Natalya Yatskevich (Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War), Galina Levina (Association of Jewish Organisations and Communities in Belarus), Aliaksey Litvin (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus), Thomas Lutz (Foundation Topography of Terror), Jörg Morré (German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst), Uwe Neumärker (Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), Sergey Novikov (Minsk State Linguistic University), Astrid Sahm (International Centre for Education and Exchange, Dortmund), Jana Šplíchalová (Jewish Museum in Prague), Yuri Uralski (Minsk City Executive Committee)

With special thanks to: Ibrahim Basalamah (NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln [NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne]), Waltraud Barton (IM-MER [Initiative Malvine – Remembering Maly Trostinec], Vienna), Angelika Betz (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [Bavarian State Library], Munich), Margot Blank (Deutsch-Russisches Museum Karlshorst [German-Russian Museum Karlshorst], Berlin), Elisabeth Boeckl-Klamper (Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes [Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance], Vienna), Rita Bogdanova (Latvijas Nacionālais arhīvs, Rīgā [Latvian State Archive, Riga]), Dominik Cobanoglu (Jüdisches Museum Wien [Jewish Museum Vienna]), Peter Dettmar and Holger Rapior (German Embassy, Minsk), Wiltrud Fischer-Pache (Stadtarchiv Nürnberg [Nuremberg City Archives]), Christian Ganzer, Andrea Genest (Erinnerungsstätte Notaufnahmelager Marienfelde [Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum], Berlin), Anna Hájková (University of Warwick, England), Susanne Hein (Museen für Kulturgeschichte der Landeshauptstadt Hannover [Cultural History Museums in the Federal State Capital of Hanover]), Christine Heitmann (Staatsarchiv Hamburg [Hamburg State Archive]), Christian Herrmann, Igar Karpenka (Minsk City Executive Committee), Tatjana Knatko (IBB [International Centre for Education and Exchange], Minsk), Anne-Dorte Krause (Deutsches Historisches Museum [German Historical Museum], Berlin), Anton Markschteder (IBB [International Centre for Education and Exchange], Dortmund), Lukas Meissel (Verein Gedenkdienst [Association for Historical and Political Education and International Dialogue], Vienna), Vlasta Měšťánková, (Národní archiv Praha [National Archives of the Czech Republic in Prague), Verena Lucia Nägel (Freie Universität Berlin [Free University Berlin]), Wojciech Płosa (Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau [Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau], Oświęcim), Ernst Pohn (ORF [Austrian Broadcasting Corporation], Vienna), Werner Renz (Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main), Ursula Reuter (Lern- und Gedenkort Jawne [Jawne Memorial and Educational Center], Cologne), Claudia Schaaf (Gedenkstätte Hadamar [Hadamar Memorial]), Henning Schröder (dpa Picture- Alliance GmbH, Frankfurt am Main), Reinhart Schwarz (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung [Hamburg Institute for Social Research]), Michaela Vocelka (Simon Wiesenthal Archiv, Vienna), Ingrid Wafner and Mathias Voigt.

Despite extensive research, it was not always possible to establish the ownership of the copyright on the photos used. Where this is the case, we would Wafer ask copyright holders to contact us.

Archive

akg-images, Berlin

Arkhiv Minskogo avtomobilʹnogo zavoda

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München/Bildarchiv (Bavarian State Library, Munich / Picture archive)

Belorusskiy gosudarstvennyy muzey istorii Velikoy Otechestvennoy voyny (Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War), Minsk

Belorusskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotofonodokumentov, Dzerzhinsk (Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, Dzerzhinsk)

Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Picture archive of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), Berlin

Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archives), Berlin

DEFA – Stiftung, Berlin (DEFA Foundation), Berlin

Divina Film GmbH, Munich

Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), Berlin

Deutsch-Russisches Museum (German-Russian Museum), Berlin-Karlshorst

Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes (Documentation Centre of the Austrian Resistance), Vienna

Fotochronika BELTA, Minsk

Geschichtswerkstatt (History Workshop), Minsk

Gosudarstvennyy arkhiv Minskoy oblasti, Minsk

IM-MER (Initiative Malvine – Remembering Maly Trostinec), Vienna

Imperial War Museum, London

International Centre for Education and Cultural Exchange (IBB), Minsk

HAZ-Hauschild-Archiv, Historisches Museum Hanover (Hauschild Archive of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Historical Museum, Hannover)

Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung (HIS) Archiv (Archive of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research)

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg/Abt. Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg State Archives / Dept. Ludwigsburg State Archives)

Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen (Welfare Association of the Federal State of Hessen)

Latvijas Nacionālais arhīvs (Latvian State Historical Archives), Riga

Lern- und Gedenkort Jawne (Jawne Memorial and Educational Center), Cologne

Minsk-Novosti

Minskprojekt

Mosfilm, Moscow

Muzey evreyskogo Soprotivleniya, Novogrudok (Regional Museum), Novogrudok

Muzey istorii meditsiny (Museum of Medical History), Minsk

Nationalarchiv der Republik Belarus (National Archives of the Republic of Belarus), Minsk

Národní archiv Praha (National Archives of the Czech Republic in Prague)

NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln (NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne)

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), Vienna

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Nachlass Wechtler (Austrian State Archives, Wechtler collection), Vienna

Památník Terezín (Terezín Memorial)

Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu (Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau)

picture-alliance/dpa, Frankfurt am Main

Private collection of the Shuvayev family, Minsk

Private collection of the Perelman family, Minsk

Private collection of the Wafner family

Private collection of the Valakhanovich family

Sammlung Gedenkstätte Buchenwald (Buchenwald Memorial collection)

Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo, Munich

Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles

Simon Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (Simon Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies), Vienna

Stadtarchiv Nürnberg (Nuremberg City Archives)

Staatsarchiv Hamburg (Hamburg City Archives)

Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), Berlin

Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum, Historisches Archiv (Foundation German Museum of Technology, Historical Archive), Berlin

Trostenetskaya srednaya shkola, Minsk

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D. C.

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

Židovské muzeum v Praze (Jewish Museum, Prague)