Ingrid Damerow | Local on-site Group, Berlin/Germany

Ingrid Damerow is an Eastern European historian and Slavist, a freelance collaborator for the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and the House of the Wannsee Conference. She is also a translator from Russian of memoirs linked to the Holocaust and Gulag survivors from the former Soviet Union.

In her function as a freelance collaborator, Ingrid has been organising study travels to countries of the former Soviet Union for many years. The destinations have been Belarus (in uninterrupted succession since 1991), Riga (regularly since 1994) and St Petersburg (regularly since 2000). All these trips have been recognized by the Berlin Senate for Integration and Labour as educational events. More information: CLICK.

„I am particularly excited to participate in the LIVING MEMORIAL project because it creates a bridge between two sites/topics towards which I have a strong personal and professional connection: the GHWK and Belarus. Among others due to the latest Corona travel restrictions, my last travel to Belarus was in 2018 treating diverse topics about the German occupation in the years 1941-44 (Holocaust, soviet prisoners of war, “gang warfare”, forced labour). In one of my previous travels (2011), I had also already the pleasure to meet Tamara Vershitskaya and to visit the Jewish Resistance Museum in Novogrudok. Other destinations and topics of my travels have been Brest, Minsk, Chatyn, Vitebsk and Bobrujsk.”