NEWS

6TH SYMPOSIUM OF THE ELISABETH KÄSEMANN FOUNDATION, BOGOTÁ, MARCH 12-13, 2024 

With the 6th symposium of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, we offer experts from Latin America and Germany a forum to exchange views on the political, legal, historical, pedagogical and psychological dealing with past experiences of violence. The symposium is dedicated to an interdisciplinary and international exchange on the dynamics in societies that have experienced historical violence. The aim is to analyze weaknesses and strengths in dealing with the past in Germany and Colombia, in Argentina and Chile to identify shared challenges and to lay a foundation for future cooperation in the field of intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to dealing with the experience of violence.

PROGRAM

TO THE ANNUAL REPORT 2023

EXHIBITION NIÑOS ROBADOS. GESTOHLENE KINDER. STOLEN CHILDREN.

The exhibition focuses on politically motivated child abduction and its destructive effect on people, families and communities. Life stories of victims from countries such as Argentina, Germany, El Salvador, Canada, the Soviet Union and Spain are presented, each in their historical context. This exhibition, organized by the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany and the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation, sheds light on a dark chapter in world history that is usually marginalized in public perception despite its profound impact.

The exhibition Niños robados. Gestohlene Kinder. Stolen Children can be ordered on the website of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany. The exhibition is available in German, Spanish and English as a printed poster set in DIN A1 format and as a print file in 85 (W) X 200 (H) centimeter format for your cultural and educational work.

Opening of the exhibition NIÑOS ROBADOS. GESTOHLENE KINDER. STOLEN CHILDREN. 20 November and 22 November 2023 in Berlin

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Niños robados. Gestohlene Kinder. Stolen Children, which we conceived in cooperation with the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship, Alexander Latotzky from Germany and Leonardo Fossati from Argentina reported on the forced separation from their families and the theft of their identities in the Bundestag and the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin.

The Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, Evelyn Zupke, SED Victims’ Commissioner at the German Bundestag, Rainer Huhle, Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg, and the Argentinian Ambassador to Germany, Fernando Brun, opened the exhibitions.

1. MEMORIA TALK
organized by the “Memoria-legal working group” of the Elisabeth Käsemann Foundation

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We are pleased to invite you to our 1 Memoria Talk on the occasion of the anniversary of the German arrest warrants against Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera and Carlos Guillermo Suarez Mason 28 of November 2003.

Jorge Videla was General and Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Argentina during the period from March 24 to July 3, 1978, and de facto President of the State at that time. In this capacity, he and others established a regime of terror, including a repressive apparatus with hierarchical command structures, with the aim of systematically killing political dissidents. Among the victims were also German citizens. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German prosecutor’s office issued international arrest warrants against former members of the government of a foreign state for the murder of German citizens and requested their extradition.

Contemporary witnesses, lawyers and scholars in international criminal law look back at the historic developments and discuss their impact on international criminal law.