Expert Forums

The work on the realisation proposal for the German-Polish House was carried out in close cooperation and consultation with German and Polish experts. To this end, the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe concluded a cooperation agreement with the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute for History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the German Poland Institute Darmstadt worked together with the German-Polish Youth Office. Both institutions advised the staff unit and the German Poland Institute on the selection and composition of the expert panels.

Renowned academics - primarily from the fields of history, art history, literature and cultural studies - museum educators, memorial site staff, exhibition organisers, architects and artists from Germany and Poland supported the development of the concept. The experts met several times in thematically organised forums.

The forums were organised as follows:

Overall concept
Memorial – Commemoration
Exhibition: Second World War and German occupation of Poland 1939 – 1945
Exhibition: The time before 1939
Exhibition: Post-war period
Education and encounters

In total, around 70 experts from Germany and Poland discussed the concept and various versions of the text at several meetings. These were:

Prof. Dr. Felix Ackermann
Fernuniversität Hagen

Dr. Stephanie Bohra
Topography of Terror Foundation and Working Group Memorial Museums Pedagogy, Berlin

PD Dr. Jochen Böhler
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg
Justus Liebig University of Giessen

Dr. Aleksandra Burdziej
National Association of Polish-German Societies

Dr. Bernadetta Czech-Sailer
District partnership Dachau - Oświęcim/Auschwitz

Prof. Dr. Stefanie Endlich
Berlin University of the Arts

Prof. Dr. Barbara Engelking
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN)

Lukas Epperlein
Institute for Digital Learning, Eichstätt

Stephan Erb
German-Polish Youth Office (DPJW)

Dr. Annemarie Franke
Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia Cultural Region and Kreisau Foundation

Janine Fubel
Fernuniversität Hagen

Dr. Edyta Gawron
Jagiellonian University Krakow

Dr. Andrea Genest
Ravensbrück Memorial Museum

Prof. Dr. Maciej Górny
Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IH PAN)

Prof. Dr. Jörg Hackmann
University of Szczecin

Dr. Christhardt Henschel
German Historical Institute Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heyde
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Dr. Matthias Heyl
Ravensbrück Memorial Museum

Dr. Horst Hoheisel
Freelance artist

Ole Jantschek
Ev. Trägergruppe für gesellschaftspolitische Jugendbildung and Kreisau Foundation

Dr. Andreas Kahrs
what matters

Dr. habil. Dobrochna Kałwa
University of Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Igor Kąkolewski
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin (CBH PAN)

Basil Kerski
European Solidarity Centre Gdansk

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann
Alexander Brückner Centre for Polish Studies | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Prof. Dr. Jerzy Kochanowski
University of Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Kornelia Kończal
Bielefeld University

Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft
University of Vienna

Jan Krebs
Gesicht Zeigen! - Lernort 7 x jung

PD Dr. Markus Krzoska
Justus Liebig University Giessen

Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt
Touro University Berlin

Prof. Dr. Andrea Löw
Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Prof. Dr. Paweł Machcewicz
Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw (ISP PAN)

Dominika Majuk
Brama Grodzka Lublin

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Marszałek
University of Potsdam

Jan Malecha
Buchenwald Memorial

Lars-Steffen Meier
@herr_meier_macht_geschichte

Anna Meier-Osiński
Arolsen Archives

Dr. Simone Mergen
Foundation House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany

Mirosław Nizio
Nizio Design International Warsaw

Dr. Burkhard Olschowsky
Federal Institute for Culture and History of Eastern Europe

Dr. Joanna Ostrowska
Freelance historian

Dr. habil. Katarzyna Person
Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto | Jewish Historical Institute Warsaw

Dr. Florian Peters
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Dr. Christian Pletzing
Academy Sankelmark

Dr. Weronika Priesmeyer-Tkocz
Senate Department for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination, Commissioner of the Senate of Berlin for Integration and Migration

Małgorzata Quinkenstein
Jewish Claims Conference, Berlin

PD Dr. Ljiljana Radonić
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

Dr. Natalia Romik
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris

Dr. Markus Roth
Fritz Bauer Institute Frankfurt

Prof. Dr. Maren Röger
University of Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
German Historical Institute Warsaw

Jakub Sawicki
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin (CBH PAN)

Frederik Schetter
Federal Agency for Civic Education

Dr. Jens Schley
Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", Berlin

Prof. Dr. Roma Sendyka
Jagiellonian University Krakow

Cornelia Siebeck
Active Museum Berlin

Dr. Torsten Smidt
House of History Bonn

Oliver Spatz
Kulturzug

Prof. Dr. Katrin Steffen
University of Sussex

Prof. Dr. Dariusz Stola
Institute for Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw (ISP PAN)

Leszek Szuster
Former Director of the International Youth Meeting Centre Oświęcim/Auschwitz (IJBS/MDSM)

Prof. Dr. Holger Thünemann
University of Münster

Prof. Dr. Tatjana Tönsmeyer
University of Wuppertal

Prof. Dr. Robert Traba
Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw (ISP PAN)

Michał Turski
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin (CBH PAN)

Joanna Urbanek
House of European History Brussels

Dr. Katarzyna Woniak
Alexander Brückner Centre for Polish Studies | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Dr. Milena Woźniak-Koch
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Berlin (CBH PAN)

Dr. habil. Robert Żurek
Kreisau Foundation for European Understanding