Opening: Gallery Exhibition Traces of Memory

Traces of Memory -
Photographs by Mustafah Abdulaziz

More than 114 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide today. Never before has this number been so high. But who are these people? Photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz portrays six people who have found refuge in Berlin. He also depicts their most important mementos: taken from a lost home or received from loved ones; objects that mean warmth and security, but also stand for traumatic experiences. A variety of memories have left deep traces.

The Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation is showing this gallery exhibition in cooperation with UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.

OPENING
Thursday, January 25, 2024, 7 p.m., Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Program

Greeting

Dr Gundula Bavendamm, Director Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Key note

Katharina Lumpp, Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Germany (UNHCR)

Panel discussion

Malakeh and Mahmoud, eyewitnesses from Syria and exhibition protagonists

Moderator: Mascha Hotopp, UNHCR

Afterwards, we invite you to a small reception.

The evening will be accompanied by music from the Darwish Band.

Free admission

The event will be held in German/English with simultaneous translation.