International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026 | The Landsberg Community: A Microhistory of German Jewry under National Socialism

Through microhistory, testimony, scholarship, archival memory, music, and personal reflection, the programs examine Jewish life under National Socialism and the aftermath of liberation, when survivors rebuilt communal, cultural, and political life in the Landsberg DP camp. 

By focusing on individual lives and local experiences, the series illuminates both the destruction of German Jewry and the enduring human capacity for agency, solidarity, and renewal. Together, the programs frame remembrance not only as commemoration of loss, but as an ethical act of witnessing, responsibility, and resistance in the present.
 

Opening Remarks:

• Yigal Cohen, CEO, Ghetto Fighters’ House

Speakers:

• Prof. Guy Miron, Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel
• Sonia Schätz, Director of the Stadtmuseum in Landsberg am Lech

When?

• January 11^th, 2026 
• 2 PM EST | 8 PM CET | 9 PM SAST | 9 PM IST | 

Where? 

• Online via Zoom 

The first program in the series will focus on the German Jewish community before and during the Holocaust.

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For information about the second program in this series on January 25, 2026