Angela Genger

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Angela Genger (born September 13, 1947 in Düsseldorf ) is a German historian and memorial educator whose main focus is the time of National Socialism .

Life

Angela Genger studied history, politics and education at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and then worked at the German Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Münster, where she was concerned with the evaluation of teacher training. In 1980 she became the director of the newly founded Old Synagogue Memorial in Essen .

From January 1988 on, she was founding director of the Dusseldorf Memorial . Here she researched the history of the Düsseldorf Jews and their deportation to the ghettos, persecution and resistance, as well as memorial site education and didactic and remembrance approaches to the Nazi past. In addition, she conducted numerous interviews with Holocaust survivors all over the world and published their memories, diaries and correspondence.

In 1995, Genger was the initiator and founding member of the working group of Nazi memorials and places of remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia , which she chaired until 2002. Her successor there was Alfons Kenkmann (Münster). As head of the Düsseldorf memorial, she retired at the end of 2010.

Honors

She is an honorary member of the support group of Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf eV

In September 2015 she received the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

On November 10, 2016, she received the Josef Neuberger Medal of the Düsseldorf Jewish Community.

Works

  • Annette Kuhn, Gisela Haffmanns, Angela Genger: Historical-political peace education. Teaching models for peace education . Kösel Verlag, Munich 1972
  • The millennia pass through our hearts: Letters from Anna and Salomon Samuel 1933-1942 / ed. u. introduced by Angela Genger, Essen 1988
  • Documentation for the exhibition Resistance and Persecution in Essen: 1933-1945 , ed. Cultural Office d. City of Essen, arr. Angela Genger, Essen 1981
  • Angela Genger: Persecution and Resistance in Düsseldorf 1933–1945 . Düsseldorf 1990
  • Angela Genger, Kerstin Griese (ed.): Aspects of Jewish life in Düsseldorf and on the Lower Rhine. Vlg. Mahn- und Gedenkstätte, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-9805963-1-1 .
  • Research - Learning - Remembrance: Educational offers for young people and adults in the memorials for the victims of National Socialism in North Rhine-Westphalia / [Ed .: Arbeitsskreis NS-Gedenkstätten NW eV Conception: Angela Genger; Kerstin Griese. Red. And arr .: Barbara Materne] 2002
  • November pogrom 1938 in Düsseldorf , on behalf of the Düsseldorf Memorial ed. by Angela Genger and Bastian Fleermann, Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2008
  • Angela Genger / Hildegard Jakobs (eds.): Düsseldorf | Litzmannstadt ghetto . 1941
  • Stumbling stones: memories of people from Düsseldorf , Erkrath, Langenfeld, Mettmann, Monheim and Ratingen = Stumbling stones / Hildegard Jakobs ... (ed.). Translator: Marion Koebner. Edited on behalf of the support group of Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf eV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/duesseldorf/duesseldorfer-juden-vom-ueberleben-im-ghetto-1.159030 "
  2. ↑ " http://www.rp-online.de/region-duesseldorf/duesseldorf/nachrichten/zeitzeugnis-eines-moorsoldaten-1.1118922 "
  3. ↑ Interview Lebendige Geschichte (n) at derwesten.de, January 3, 2011
  4. ↑ Bastian Fleermann heads the memorial. Retrieved April 9, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Genger, Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf