Audio recording available: All contributions from the autumn conference Die Peripherie im Zentrum (“The periphery at the centre”) available online
Recordings of both the presentations and the panel discussion held the day before the conference can be found here (German only). The focus of the conference on 14 and 15 November 2022 was provenance research into Nazi-confiscated cultural property in a regional setting, on a small scale and at the margins: for example, speakers shed light on research carried out into local town history collections in southern Lower Saxony and on the border to Denmark, they studied the robbery of the everyday items from the Jewish population in occupied Eastern Europe and they investigated the “utilisation” of confiscated removal items in the free ports of Bremen and Hamburg. They also dedicated themselves to persecuted persons who have only recently received greater attention, such as Sinti and Roma and Freemasons.
On the day before the conference, 13 November 2022, the German Lost Art Foundation organised a panel discussion at Halberstadt Town Hall in cooperation with Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Halberstadt. The following took part in the debate: Jutta Dick (Board of Directors of Moses Mendelssohn Akademie Foundation Halberstadt), Julia Hirsch (descendant of the Hirsch family from Halberstadt), Prof. Alfred Jacoby (architect of the new synagogue in Dessau and Honorary Chair of the Jewish Community in Offenbach am Main), State Rabbi Alexander Nachama (Jewish Community of Thuringia) and Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Simon (Founding Director of the New Synagogue Foundation Berlin – Centrum Judaicum). The discussion was moderated by television editor Stefan Nölke of MDR-KULTUR and focused on the question of how the reconstruction of Jewish history can contribute to the revival of Jewish life in Germany – especially with regard to the periphery. It was recorded by MDR and is available as an audio recording in the ARD audio library for one year.