Webinar: Shared Memories

Are you interested in family memories and how personal and national history intertwine? Join our upcoming webinar, "Shared Memories." Register now.

Alex DEKKER

Born in Alkmaar (Netherlands), he is a teacher and lecturer. Author of three books: My Grandfather Was German, the NSKK(*) in the Netherlands and Hitler in Understandable Language, he has also published various articles in magazines and collaborated on documentaries and radio programs.

Having been introduced to family secrets at a very young age, he spent years researching a past that still haunts him today.

Astrid SIEBERT

She lives near Freudenstadt (Germany) and is the director of a kindergarten. She shares with us her long awakening to the horror of war, which her parents passed on to her without words, without explanations, without instructions.

His family's Nazi past still weighs heavily on him today.