Dersim 1937/38: Testimonies of Survival

In 1937–38, Dersim in Eastern Anatolia became the scene of massacres perpetrated by the Turkish military against the predominantly Alevi population. Measures of expulsion and re-education contributed to the widespread destruction of Dersim’s traditional way of life. The project Dersim 1937/38 has compiled interviews with eyewitnesses and is making the videos, subtitled in Kırmancki, Turkish and German, available to the public.

PROGRAMME

Welcome

Dr Nils Köhler, Acting Director, Documentation Centre for Flight, Expulsion and Reconciliation

Minister of State Dr Wolfram Weimer, The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Hüseyin Aydın, Chair of the Dersim Culture and History Centre

Moderator: Dr Silke Krohn, Head of Education and Outreach, Documentation Centre for Flight, Expulsion and Reconciliation

Lecture

Prof. Dr Hans-Lukas Kieser, Historian, University of Zurich

European perspectives on the memory of Dersim

The Project. The Archive. The Documentation

Filiz Aktaş, Dersim Centre for Culture and History

Leonie Nowack, social scientist, Ruhr University Bochum

Prof. Dr Christian Gudehus, social scientist, Ruhr University Bochum

Alexander Husenbeth, social scientist, Ruhr University Bochum

Laments

Maviş Güneşer and Çağlasu Aslan

Afterwards, we invite you to a reception.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission: 9.30 am

Language: German

FREE ADMISSION

WITHOUT REGISTRATION

The event is a collaboration between the Dersim Culture and History Centre, Ruhr University Bochum and the Documentation Centre for Flight, Expulsion and Reconciliation.