Steven Robins’ long-term project of tracing his family’s past from South Africa to Berlin and back has recently taken a productive new turn with the opening of an extraordinary exhibition at the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition, conceived by Stellenbosch University Anthropologist Robins and the …
In the summer and autumn of 2015, 1.1 million people arrived in Germany with the aim of seeking asylum. The majority of these were refugees from the war in Syria, many others came from Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Western Balkan.
The German asylum system forces newly arrived refugees to …
27 January is ‘International Holocaust Remembrance Day’, designated by the United Nations in 2005. The international memorial day commemorates the genocide of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 2 million Roma and Sinti, the deaths of 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, and of 9,000 homosexual men, who …