Dr Matthias Hass | House of the Wannsee Conference

In today's Memorial and Educational Site, fifteen high-ranking representatives of the SS, the NSDAP and various Reich ministries discuss their cooperation in the planned deportation and murder of the European Jews on January 20, 1942. In addition to its exhibitions, the Memorial and Educational Site offers a wide range of educational programs to learn about the history of the persecution and murder of the European Jews, the history of National Socialism, its prehistory and its consequences. Dr Matthias Hass is the acting head of the education department. He is the curator of the traveling exhibition “The Wannsee Conference and the persecution and murder of the European Jews” which was shown in a number of cities in North America and South Africa. Dr. Hass was the director of the U.S. program of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace in Philadelphia from 2005 – 2009. He studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and specialized in the field of Historical Foundations of politics and the Politics of Memory. Over the last years, Dr. Hass has organized a number of international exchange seminars for Canadian, Polish, German and American students with different organizations and universities. He has taught at the Free University of Berlin, York University in Toronto and Touro College Berlin, and worked at several museums and memorial sites to the Nazi past, among them the Topography of Terror Foundation and the Memorial and Educational Site of the House of the Wannsee Conference.