1. Knowledge – Preserving the Facts and Continuing Research

  • Christian Boltanski, Menschlich, 1994 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, photo: Marek Kruszewski
  • Luc Tuymans, Himmler, 1997/98, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg © Studio Luc Tuymans
  • Gerhard Richter, Onkel Rudi, 2001, Editions catalogue: 111, © Private collection, Deutschland, photo: Tino Kukulies
  • Gregor Schneider, Suppe auslöffeln, Goebbels’ Birthplace, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, photo: Gregor Schneider

2. Crime Sites – Securing Evidence and Preserving Memorial Sites

  • Edith Bán Kiss, Appel! from the album Déportation, 1945, © Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel
  • Edith Bán Kiss, Travail from the album Déportation, 1945, © Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, Fürstenberg/Havel
  • Prisoner's jacket of Max M. Sprecher (1909-1980) from Auschwitz concentration camp, 1939-1945, © Jüdisches Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
  • Raffael Rheinsberg, Hand and Foot, 1980, photo: Annette Kradisch © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, Neues Museum Nürnberg
  • Gerhard Richter, Augenklinik, 1966, photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf, © Courtesy private collection, Neuss und Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf


3. Memorials – How Do We Keep History Alive?

  • Käthe Kollwitz, The Lament, 1938–1941 (bronze cast before 1960) © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
  • Marcel Odenbach, Beweis zu Nichts, 2016 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne


  • Hans Haacke, Und ihr habt doch gesiegt (documentary), 1988 / 2001, photo: Werner Kaligofsky © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
  • Louis Stettner, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 2006, © Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Courtesy Camera Work Galerie Berlin
  • Louis Stettner, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Couple in the Aisle of Stelae). From the portfolio: “Berlin Diary 2006”, 2006 © courtesy of Camera Work Galerie Berlin

4. Remembrance – Individual, Family, and Cultural Memory

  • Marcel Odenbach, Deutschstunde, 2006, photo: © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

  • Marcel Odenbach, Deutschstunde, 2006, photo; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  • Geitel & Co. Flag Factory (Berlin), Piece of fabric for Jewish badges from the Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezin, Czech Republic), 1941–1942, © Stadtmuseum Hagen, photo: Heike Wippermann
  • Portrait of Margot Friedländer with a cross pendant necklace, 1943 © Margot Friedländer Stiftung, photo: private, Margot Friedländer Estate
  • Ayala Shoshana Guy, I Will Take Your Shadow, 2021 © Ayala Shoshana Guy

5. Future – How Do We Protect Democracy?

  • Interactive digital testimony by Holocaust survivor Eva Umlauf, Project “Learning with digital testimonies” (LediZ), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München © Bright White Ltd.

  • Andreas Maus, Jedes Wort im Bundestag hat Bestand. A.F.D. Seit (sic) vorsichtig, 2025 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026, photo: Enno Jäkel/ Copyright: Kunsthaus KAT18
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