Erinnerung für heute und morgen

Talk with Inge Auerbacher on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Erinnerungsort Hotel Silber invites you to a conversation with Inge Auerbacher.

The focus will be on the presentation of the book "Erinnerung für HEUTE und MORGEN" (Springer Verlag, 2025), edited by Inge Auerbacher, Roswitha Weber and Bianca Christina Weber-Lewerenz. The volume explores the question of how the memories of contemporary witnesses can be conveyed in elementary school and which forms of remembrance promote empathy, civil courage and decisive action against anti-Semitism and other resentments.

Based on comprehensive documentation of the "Inge Auerbacher Day" project, the book shows ways in which a culture of remembrance can be shaped in a sustainable, contemporary and effective way. Fundamental questions are addressed:
What creates empathy? What enables people to show civil courage? And what does it take to allow and actively support diversity?

Inge Auerbacher, born in 1934, grew up as the child of a devout Jewish family in Kippenheim and Jebenhausen in southern Baden. In 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto together with her parents. After liberation in 1945, the family emigrated to the USA. Inge Auerbacher still lives and works in New York and has been involved in international remembrance work and education for many years.

In cooperation with the Hotel Silber initiative, the Geißstraße Foundation and the Israelitische Religionsgemeinschaft Württemberg.