What does it feel like to see your own family history inside a memorial museum?

In this episode, we—three descendants of former Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoners—take you with us as we walk the historic camp grounds. From the infamous gates of Tower A to the haunting underground tunnels, we retrace our ancestors’ steps and confront a heavy family legacy.

Together, we visit the camp’s new exhibition, “Entangled Pasts. Descendants speak.” This is a deeply personal journey about memory, breaking the silence, and the responsibility of the next generations.

Our story, told by us. Listen in as we reclaim our ancestors’ voices directly from sacred ground.

The new website of the Sachsenhausen Memorial, specially created for descendants, can be found here: Information for Descendants

A huge thank you to the team at the Sachsenhausen Memorial and the EVZ Foundation for making this exhibition possible.

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Descendants Stuff podcast is produced by Jakob Feisthauer, Kelsey Snook and Nicole Wines – three descendants of Sachsenhausen prisoners and co-creators of the Sachsenhausen Stuff project.

The Descendants Stuff team would like to extend a special thank you to the team at the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum especially Dr. Astrid Ley, and the members of the educational department’s project “What Voice Do We Have?”, as well as the descendant’s collective, Voices of the Next Generation.

Our theme music, “Heil, Sachsenhausen!” was written and performed by former Sachsenhausen prisoner Aleksander Kulisiewicz. Thanks to the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum and the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection for granting permission for its use. If you are a Sachsenhausen descendant who would like to share your story, please contact us.