Community and Testimony Cafés

Our regular community cafés offer survivors of Nazi persecution an opportunity to meet in a safe environment. They receive support by our employees and our team of volunteers. Most survivors have been severely traumatised and are well advanced in years. Our community cafés help improve their living conditions and fight isolation in old age. Café get-togethers take place on a regular basis in Cologne, Dusseldorf and Recklinghausen.

Several times a year, our community cafés turn into public testimony cafés. We welcome school classes and other guests with whom survivors share their memories of persecution. The personal stories and intergenerational exchange make our testimony cafés a place where history comes alive. Thus, the project makes a major contribution to preventing right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia. The nationwide competition promoting democracy and tolerance “Aktiv für Demokratie und Toleranz” described the project as “a creative and effective example of civic engagement”.

Website for our educational projects

"Biography workshop", "Fremd sein - Was ist das? "," Contemporary witness theater?": Our educational projects now have their own website! Take a look around and find out how we contribute to a good culture of remembrance together with contemporary witnesses, schoolchildren and young adults as well as anyone interested. Together against racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination. Together against forgetting.

Click over: https://bildungsprojekte.nsberatung.de/