 My name is Fabian, I live in Berlin, I study history and work here at the Topography of Terror as a receptionist at the information desk and also just I know there is a day remembering the liberation of Auschwitz in January and there is also a day in August for the victims of Nazism and Stalinism, I know them, but I'm not sure if memorial days forced from above are helpful for strengthening remembrance, memory of what it is supposed to remember. I did an internship here at the Gedenkstettenreferat, which is an essential point for networking for the cause of a better communication of centers and sites of remembrance in Europe and also worldwide. In Germany, the Nazi era, the Third Reich, National Socialism, the 12 years are a very important topic starting at school. The first time I learned about the Holocaust was when I watched the documentary on television with my parents and then my mother explained to me what the Holocaust actually was, explained it to an eight year old child, which I was, and I was overwhelmed by what she said and even though she explained it in very easy language to me, from this day on it has been part of my memory I guess because I could not believe that human beings were able to do so. And of course, the crimes of the Nazis are an omnipresent issue at school. You talk about National Socialism in every subject except for sciences probably, but it's treated in history of course, and in German, when you do religious, religion, which is also a subject, you always talk about anything that is connected with the Nazis. I remember also, that's a memory I can recall, I was even younger than eight, I was still going to kindergarten, I remember images in my head of Theresienstadt in Czech Republic. My grandparents all died when I was still very young, so when I was eight I didn't have any grandparents left so I couldn't ask questions myself anymore, but of course I asked my parents about my grandparents' role in that time. And also I got some letters that my grand-grandmother wrote when Theresienstadt was bombed, she lived there. So it's important for me to have these family-related sources, to have them, to study them, to think about that. I think there's a tendency for young people, people that are teenagers now to say, okay, we have talked about that a lot and we can move on, I think it's important for every generation to learn about the 20th century history again. Because otherwise it will be forgotten. We should watch what's happening starting with Europe, we should not banalize political events. For me it's really hard to draw comparisons, I don't think that's right, we should just take history, we should approach history scientifically and what's happening now is that's political. The best way to conserve the memory is to transport it via education. I think memorials, remembering the paths, are a good idea because even people that are not very well-informed, passed by, for example here at Topografia Terror, they come here, they enter, they read and see what is shown here in the permanent exhibition. No, I don't think there can be too many memorials. I mean, each memorial is for another cause, for another thing, so these are different topics, memorial addresses. These days are commemorated, but not by the common people, it's set up in a frame of rights, so that's what it is. Well, I think that national memorial days are more important than the European ones. In Germany, November 9th is far more known, important for remembrance than January 27th is. So I think that in Europe every nation has its own memorial days that are more important than these newer memorial days that try to have a universal European approach. I don't think that the European Union should create a great memorial for what happened in the last century. I think it's more important to have a decentralized structure with so many sites of remembrance we have in Europe. I think that official memory is always influenced by the current political situation by the current government. That's just how memory works. It is always a thing from now that our values, our intentions that make use of history and make it to memory. I think every European nation has its own national narratives that are still very present nowadays and there is no common European narrative found yet that could substitute these national narratives. We have a left party that remembers the day when Liebknecht and Luxembourg were shot. Every party has its own memory but the traditional German parties have a very European approach to memory. I think of course if you look at right-wing parties they have different memorial causes. I think if one can say that one is influenced by history it would probably be the time of the 1930s and 1940s because that is really history and what has happened after 1989 now is only becoming subject of history.