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  • Renate Aris and André Lang Honored for Their Commitment

    Renate Aris Receives the Federal Cross of Merit On March 3, 2026, our honorary member Renate Aris received the Federal Cross of Merit for her work as a contemporary witness. In its statement, the Saxon State Chancellery described her as a “bridge-builder and sought-after advisor in civic and political youth education” who gives “the warning…

  • Memorial Site Alter Leipziger Bahnhof: The current situation

    The “Alter Leipziger Bahnhof” (Old Leipzig Railway Station) is one of the central locations of Nazi crimes in Dresden. On January 21, 1942, around 300 Jewish people were deported from here to the Riga ghetto, many of whom were later murdered. For decades, this place remained out of the public eye – both spatially and…

  • Press release: Dresden CDU city council faction blocks funding for Alter Leipziger Bahnhof memorial site

    The development of the memorial, learning, and meeting site at the “Alter Leipziger Bahnhof” (Old Leipzig Railway Station) is on the brink of collapse. Due to the blockade by the CDU city council faction, there is no majority in the city council to approve the planned budget funds. This means that the funds earmarked for…

  • Exhibition “UnSeen” – Artistic research as memory work?

    From December 5, 2025, to January 6, 2026, the Department of Art Education/Didactics at the University of Potsdam, in close cooperation with the Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof and under the curatorial direction of Drin. phil. Antje Winkler, will present the exhibition “UnSeen.” The exhibition will feature artistic works by students at the University of Potsdam…

  • Vernissage of TRANSIT – Images from Excile

    Will take place on Jan 9, 2025 | 6pmZentralwerk | Riesaer Str. 32 More to be announced soon…

  • Remembering the Novemberpogroms | Nov 9, 2025 / 6pm

    “I beg you. Be human, be human!” Margot Friedländer’s words are more relevant today than ever before. Talking to each other and searching for solutions so that what happened does not happen again – that is what we want to use this year’s commemoration of the November pogroms 87 years ago for. To this end,…

  • Exhibition: Transit – Images from Exile

    Exploring the themes of persecution, flight, and exile of a Jewish family from Dresden in the works of Argentine artist Mónica Laura Weiss from Buenos Aires WHERE: KABINETT at Zentralwerk e. V. · Riesaer Straße 32 · 01127 Dresden WHEN: January 9 to February 8, 2026, Thursday–Saturday 4–8 p.m., Sunday 3–6 p.m. Exhibition opening: Thursday, January…

  • Guided tours for school groups to the exhibition “TRANSIT – Images from Exile”

    From January 8 to February 8, the Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof (Friends of the Old Leipzig Railway Station) will be showing the exhibition “TRANSIT – Pictures from Exile” in the rooms of the Zentralwerk e.V. It brings together works by the Argentine-Jewish artist Mónica Laura Weiss, which deal intensively with the themes of persecution, flight,…

  • The Concept for memorial site has been published

    An important step on the way to creating the Alter Leipziger Bahnhof memorial and meeting place The Förderkreis Alter Leipziger Bahnhof (Alter Leipziger Bahnhof Support Group) has published the concept commissioned by the city of Dresden for the future memorial, educational, and meeting place on the site of the former Dresden-Neustadt freight station. The concept…

  • “Schweigen. Stille.” (Silence. Stillness.) Reading and discussion

    We warmly invite you to a reading and discussion as part of the International Weeks Against Racism on March 31, 2025, from 6 PM at Zentralwerk, supported by various initiatives. Together, we will reflect on the importance of remembrance culture and discuss the continuities of racist violence. We will read from Ukraine Without Jews by…

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