Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice
The performance project “Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice” enables teenagers and young adults to engage artistically and personally with the history of the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp. The starting point is the life story of Ravensbrück survivor Emmie Arbel, as recounted in Barbara Yelin’s graphic novel “The Colour of Memory.”
After getting to know the historic site through a guided tour and a visit to the exhibition, participants are given the opportunity in various workshops (dance, rap, sound, voice) to become aware of their thoughts and feelings and to find ways to express them artistically. The focus is on encouraging participants to develop their own voice and stance, as well as to make connections to their own life stories and current social developments.
Accompanied by the memorial’s education team and the artistic team led by the American-Jewish rapper Dan Wolf, a performance is ultimately created – as a new form of remembrance beyond standardised rituals.
With the support of the memorial’s education team and the artistic team led by the American-Jewish rapper Dan Wolf, a performance is ultimately created – as a new form of remembrance that goes beyond standardised rituals.
The project’s partners are Berlin’s Theater Strahl, whose youth ensemble has incorporated the ideas from the workshops into the play „Manche Sachen weiß ich, aber ich erinnere mich nicht“ (“There are some things I know, but I don’t remember”), and the Osthofen Memorial, where another edition of “Sound in the Silence: Raise your Voice” took place at the end of August 2025.
In June 2026, the project returns to the Ravensbrück Memorial Site: students from Freie Universität Berlin and Coburg University of Applied Sciences are jointly developing a new performance. The public final performances will take place on 19 June at 5 pm and on 20 June at 11 am at the Ravensbrück Memorial Site. Afterwards, all audience members are invited to a post-performance discussion with the performers.
“Sound in the Silence – Raise Your Voice” is funded by the EVZ Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the “JUGEND erinnert vor Ort & engagiert” programme.
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.
