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Events
Find out who invited us to talk about Raymond's destiny or the historical documentary about him.
Opening of the permanent exhibition "Police Violence and Forced Labor
Minister of Culture Grant Hendrik Tonne opened the new permanent exhibition "Police Violence and Forced Labor" of the Gestapo Cellar Memorials on Friday, July 3, 2020. In front of the Augustaschacht building, the sponsors and memorial staff welcomed the coming guests in the three exhibition languages. Holding the banners (from left to right):
Dr. Michael Gander, executive director and project manager, Dr. des. Janine Doerry, project coordinator, Dr. Rolf Keller, Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorials and Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition, Anna Kebschull, District Administrator of Osnabrück County, Mario Franz, Singer Songwriter (Composer), Georg Hörnschemeyer, Chairman, Minister of Culture Grant Hendrik Tonne, Ministerialdirigentin Maria Bering, Group Leader for History and Remembrance at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Wolfgang Beckermann, First City Councilor of the City of Osnabrück and Board of Directors of Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker Land e.V., Jean-Marie Vinclair, French filmmaker, Ansgar Pohlmann, Chairman of the Board of the Georgsmarienhütte Steelworks Foundation and Ralf Hellige, Member of the Board of the Sparkasse Osnabrück Foundation.
Dr. Michael Gander, executive director and project manager, Dr. des. Janine Doerry, project coordinator, Dr. Rolf Keller, Foundation of Lower Saxony Memorials and Scientific Advisory Board of the exhibition, Anna Kebschull, District Administrator of Osnabrück County, Mario Franz, Singer Songwriter (Composer), Georg Hörnschemeyer, Chairman, Minister of Culture Grant Hendrik Tonne, Ministerialdirigentin Maria Bering, Group Leader for History and Remembrance at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Wolfgang Beckermann, First City Councilor of the City of Osnabrück and Board of Directors of Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker Land e.V., Jean-Marie Vinclair, French filmmaker, Ansgar Pohlmann, Chairman of the Board of the Georgsmarienhütte Steelworks Foundation and Ralf Hellige, Member of the Board of the Sparkasse Osnabrück Foundation.
The Gestapo-Keller Memorial
The Gestapokeller memorial site includes detention cells of the Osnabrück Secret State Police (Gestapo). Nearby is the Augustaschacht Memorial at the site of the former Ohrbeck labor education camp.
"Police Violence and Forced Labor" Opening of this exhibition.
"Police Violence and Forced Labor" Opening of this exhibition on 3.7.2020.
8 Sekunden - The teaser
8 SEKUNDEN is the logbook of an investigation in search of the traces of Raymond Vinclair, a unknown great-uncle guillotined in Berlin for a large-scale action of resistance to Nazism.
Zoom Conference: Resisting oblivion
On Sunday at 3 p.m., Jean-Marie Vinclair will show two short films about his uncle Raymond Vinclair - "I Didn't Take It as a Crime" and "The Traces of Silence." The director will be available for questions afterward.
Zoom access here:
https://gedenkstaetten-augustaschacht-osnabrueck.de/aktue...
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Raymond Vinclair was a forced laborer at the Osnabrück freight station in 1943 and helped nearly 150 prisoners of war escape during World War II before he was arrested by the Osnabrück Gestapo and then sentenced to death by the Berlin People's Court. Guillotined on July 24, 1944, his story remained unknown for a long time.
Attendance at this joint event of the VHS Osnabrück, the Museumsquartier Osnabrück and the memorials Gestapokeller and Augustaschacht is free.
📷 Uwe Lewandowski.
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[Jean-Marie Vinclair stands in front of the media station at the Gestapokeller memorial with his film about his great-uncle Raymond Vinclair, who was executed. Eve Vinclair-Berkemeier is standing behind it. She supports the online event with her husband from the memorial in Osnabrück Castle].
Zoom access here:
https://gedenkstaetten-augustaschacht-osnabrueck.de/aktue...
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Raymond Vinclair was a forced laborer at the Osnabrück freight station in 1943 and helped nearly 150 prisoners of war escape during World War II before he was arrested by the Osnabrück Gestapo and then sentenced to death by the Berlin People's Court. Guillotined on July 24, 1944, his story remained unknown for a long time.
Attendance at this joint event of the VHS Osnabrück, the Museumsquartier Osnabrück and the memorials Gestapokeller and Augustaschacht is free.
📷 Uwe Lewandowski.
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[Jean-Marie Vinclair stands in front of the media station at the Gestapokeller memorial with his film about his great-uncle Raymond Vinclair, who was executed. Eve Vinclair-Berkemeier is standing behind it. She supports the online event with her husband from the memorial in Osnabrück Castle].
Article about our film shooting in Osnabrück.
The Osnabrück Newspapter NOZ interviews us about our film shooting in the Gestapokeller.
#HistoryOfLiberation
What does the #FutureOfMemory look like when people don't come back? When for decades no one can or wants to remember? When the last letter does not arrive?
This is the question French director Jean-Marie Vinclair faces together with his German wife @evevinclairberkemeier and his German-French children. His great-uncle was executed by the National Socialist justice system in the Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary (@gedenkstaettenbrandenburg) because he - himself a forced laborer at the Osnabrück freight station - had helped others to escape. His letter from death row only reached the family after the war, and the exact circumstances of his murder only became known through Volker Issmer in the 1990s.
The Vinclair family is now breaking the silence in the grandchildren's generation and is ensuring German-French reconciliation with the films and with their cohesion. We as a memorial are very pleased that Jean-Marie Vinclair has produced two short films for the exhibition section in the Gestapo Cellar Memorial. And we are very excited about his current project: a feature-length documentary about the life of Raymond Vinclair.
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[The photo shows the first lines of Raymond Vinclair's letter to his parents. The letter is in French and dated June 28, 1944. A hand holds the letter in the left margin].
This is the question French director Jean-Marie Vinclair faces together with his German wife @evevinclairberkemeier and his German-French children. His great-uncle was executed by the National Socialist justice system in the Brandenburg-Görden penitentiary (@gedenkstaettenbrandenburg) because he - himself a forced laborer at the Osnabrück freight station - had helped others to escape. His letter from death row only reached the family after the war, and the exact circumstances of his murder only became known through Volker Issmer in the 1990s.
The Vinclair family is now breaking the silence in the grandchildren's generation and is ensuring German-French reconciliation with the films and with their cohesion. We as a memorial are very pleased that Jean-Marie Vinclair has produced two short films for the exhibition section in the Gestapo Cellar Memorial. And we are very excited about his current project: a feature-length documentary about the life of Raymond Vinclair.
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[The photo shows the first lines of Raymond Vinclair's letter to his parents. The letter is in French and dated June 28, 1944. A hand holds the letter in the left margin].
"Le Maitron" - Raymond's Biography
Find Raymonds biography in the biographical dictionary of the labor and social movement.
#EveryNameCounts - Response to the goodbye letter
Article about Jean-Marie's research in the archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen.
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