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History and the culture of remembrance from the perspective of young Europeans
From young people, for young people: On 26 March at 3 pm, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. will open an exhibition on war crimes and the Holocaust at the visitor centre of the Ysselsteyn War Cemetery. It has been developed as part of the international “CERV” project “Against forgetting – For Peace and Solidarity in Europe”.
Why is it important to keep the memory of war crimes and crimes against humanity alive? How is the history of violence and totalitarianism linked to European values? And what does this historical legacy mean for us today?
These questions were the focus of six youth exchanges in the summer of 2025 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia, Germany, France and Poland, during which 178 young people from 14 European countries developed the travelling exhibition and a podcast. The aim of the exhibition: to share the knowledge gained about local war crimes with others and to encourage remembrance and understanding in Europe.
The result is a multi-perspective exhibition that presents the collective memory of the events in the respective countries, whilst also highlighting controversies. The accompanying podcast allows the audience to understand how these experiences resonated with the young people – from visits to memorial sites to, for example, the singing of traditional songs by Ukrainians who had been expelled from Poland.
The opening of the travelling exhibition at the Ysselsteyn War Cemetery visitor centre will be organised by twelve project participants from Germany and Poland. They will share their experiences and invite local school pupils to engage with the topic of war crimes, with a view to deepening their understanding of Europe and better recognising the distortion of history in the present day.
The opening event on 26 March will be held in English. It begins at 3 pm. All interested parties are warmly welcome.
The English-language exhibition can be viewed at the visitor centre daily from 9 am to 5 pm until 8 May. Admission is free. Translated versions are available online. The project is funded by the European Commission’s ‘CERV’ programme.
More information about the project and the youth conference in Ysselsteyn can be found at: www.against-forgetting.eu