Last day of the exhibition: „Echoes from Hell“ by Tetjus Tügel jr.. The Documentation and Memorial Site Sandbostel Association will stage a concluding matinee in their rooms at Großer Platz 4 on Sunday, September 22nd, 2002.

On April 29th, 2003 we’ll remeber the Belgian POWs

September 3rd, 2002: Recital in the Civic Library Bremervoerde. At 20.00, Gerd Kaiser read from the book „Katyn“:

August 23rd: Exhibition by Tetjus Tügel „Echoes from Hell“ – paintings about the subject Stalag XB. From August 26th till September 22nd daily from 16.00 till 19.00, Tetjus Tügel’s series of paintings can be viewed in the Memorial Site at Bremervoerde. Please read also the speeches by Klaus Volland and Tetjus Tügel

On April 29th, our traditional Memorial Event on the former Camp ground took place. This year, we did recall the liberation by British troops.
The event did start at 18.00 in the Camp Church on the border of today’s commercial estate „Immenhain“ at Sandbostel. Speeches were given by:
Dr. Dietmar Kohlrausch, Chair Man of the Memorial Association Sandbostel
Tony Hackett, Consul of the British Consulate General at Hamburg
Dr. Hans Engel from London, who did work in the camp after the liberation.
Afterwards, historical documents were read by pupils from the Bremervörde Grammar School
Following this, flowers were laid down in the area of the former KZ prisoners‘ camp.
At 19.00, a service took place in the Camp Church.

After his spectacular reading from Hitler’s „Mein Kampf“, the Turkish actor and film dircetor Serdar Somuncu did start a new, equally charged project. Under the heading „Do you want total war?“ he reads parts from the notorious speech at the Berlin Sportpalast on February 18th, 1943.
„Somuncu’s dramaturgy is perfect. The explaining word alternates with the Goebbels speech, only the one phrase we all know – this one of ten „Do you want“ questions – can be heard in the original sound. And we feel for a dark, oppressive moment the power, which can give force to even the maddest word. A few days after the Sportpalast speech, Goebbels did note in his diary: “This hour of lunacy. If I‘d ask them to jump out of the Columbus Towers third floor, they would have done it, too“ Can it be said more destructive, sobering, direct, reveiling?“ (Kerstin Decker, Tagesspiegel, Berlin)

On Thursday, February 7th, 2002 at 20.oo Serdar Somuncu reads in the Main hall of the Bremervörde Town Hall. Entrance fee is 9 € (advance sale in the book-shop Morgenstern) resp. 10 € (box office)

In 2002, our association did exist 10 years. Out of this reason, we, in cooperation with the Federal Center for Political Education, did organise a teaching session for teachers, local historians, pupils and memorial sites‘ staff.
Topics were:
- National Socialism in North West Nether Saxony, examplified by the forced workers‘ experiences.
- National Socialism in more recent local histories and chronicles from the district Rotenburg
- New possibilities of remembrance work with youngsters
- Problems of POW related research
- Maintenance of monuments, restoration and archeology.
On January 18th, a festive event took place at the Oste Hotel, Bremervoerde.