Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice
The performance project Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice offers young people and young adults an artistic and personal engagement with the history of the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. The starting point is the life story of Ravensbrück survivor Emmie Arbel, captured by Barbara Yelin in the graphic novel The Colour of Memory.
Through various artistic workshops – including dance, rap, sound, and voice – participants are encouraged to first reflect on their own thoughts and feelings, and then to find ways to express them artistically. At its core, the project aims to empower participants to break the silence surrounding the crimes of National Socialism, to find their own voice and stance, and to make connections to their personal biographies as well as to current social developments.
Accompanied by the educational team of the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum and the artistic team led by American-Jewish rapper Dan Wolf, the process culminates in a performance – a continually evolving form of remembrance that goes beyond standardised rituals.
Project partners include the Theater Strahl in Berlin, whose youth ensemble incorporates the workshop’s impulses into the play Some Things I Know, But I Don’t Remember, and the Osthofen Concentration Camp Memorial, which will host the next edition of Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice at the end of August 2025.
Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice is funded by the Foundation EVZ and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) as part of the programme JUGEND erinnert vor Ort & engagiert.
Siemens in Ravensbrück
Like many other German companies, Siemens & Halske employed forced labourers during the Second World War. The project siemens@ravensbrück was launched to address this chapter of the company’s history.
Initiated in 2010 by the Werner-von-Siemens Vocational School of Siemens Professional Education Berlin (SPE), the project is a collaboration between the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum, the Berlin works councils of Siemens AG, and the Berlin office of the company’s management.
As part of this educational project, pupils and students of Siemens Professional Education Berlin have had the opportunity to meet survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp – among them women who were forced to work for Siemens & Halske.
The results and insights from the project are continuously documented on the project website: www.projekt-ravensbrueck.com.
