The Ecumenical Plötzensee Days are an annual event, commemorating martyrs and victims of

National Socialism Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...

. They take place at the catholic commemoration church

Maria Regina Martyrum Maria Regina Martyrum (german: link=no, Gedenkkirche Maria Regina Martyrum (actually Gedächtniskirche Maria Regina Martyrum der deutschen Katholiken zu Ehren der Blutzeugen für Glaubens- und Gewissensfreiheit in den Jahren 1933–1945) literal ...

and at the

Protestant Church of Plötzensee The Protestant Church of Plötzensee (German: Gemeindezentrum Plötzensee) is situated in Berlin-Charlottenburg-Nord and was inaugurated in 1970 as the second church building of the Protestant Congregation in North-Charlottenburg within the Evang ...

. The events take place around January 23, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke’s day of death, and January 27, the

International Holocaust Remembrance Day The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of on ...

. Besides cultural programs as performances of opera, concerts or theater, lectures and

vespers Vespers is a service of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic Church, Catholic (both Latin liturgical rites, Latin and Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern), Lutheranism, Lutheran, and Anglican ...

are fixed parts in the calendar of events. Clarita von Trott zu Solz, Rosemarie Reichwein (1992), Bishop Albrecht Schönherr (1996), Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (1998), Jizchak Schwersenz (1999), Günter Brakelmann (2009) and

Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service an ...

have been lecturing or preaching among others.

Topics

*1992: The

Kreisau Circle The Kreisau Circle (German: ''Kreisauer Kreis'', ) (1940–1944) was a group of about twenty-five German dissidents in Nazi Germany led by Helmuth James von Moltke, who met at his estate in the rural town of Kreisau, Silesia. The circle was com ...

and its meaning today *1993: Renate Wind: „Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen“ –

Dietrich Bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer (; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have ...

*1994: Friedrich Georgi: „Wir haben das Letzte gewagt“; Wörmann: „Widerstand in Charlottenburg“ *1995:

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (11 March 1907 – 23 January 1945) was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II. He w ...

’s 50th anniversary of death *1996:

and the preaching seminar in Finkenwalde *1997: Sigrid Jacobeit: Ravensbrück *1998: Being Christian after Auschwitz *1999: Jizchak Schwersenz *2000: Hans Krasa: Brundibár *2002: Ecumenical Vespers *2003: Harald Poelchau *2005: "60 years later" *2006:

’s 100th birthday *2007: "Mother Marija Skobtsova – Martyr of Ravensbrück" *2008: "Locations of audacity" („Silent heroes") *2009: Helmuth James von Moltke – in the land of godless people. *2010:

Franz Jägerstätter Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S. (also spelled Jaegerstaetter in English; born Franz Huber, 20 May 1907 – 9 August 1943) was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed for his refusa ...

External links

homepage of the Evangelical church at Charlottenburg North

press release of the Evangelical church Berlin-Brandenburg

press release of the Catholic church Berlin
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