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  • Marius Schmidt Aale und Gespenster

    Draw your own Cap Arcona

    03.06.2026

    Teenagers and young adults can develop their own drawn stories in a workshop on June 20, 2026.

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  • Tour2 ScheuneGlasau1

    Cycle tour Death March Sarau 1945

    28.05.2026

    A bicycle tour from Ahrensbök on Wednesday, June 24, 2026 takes you along the route of the death march of concentration camp prisoners 81 years ago.

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  • TuridMueller c TorgeNiemann scaled

    Readings from Baltic Sea crime thrillers

    18.05.2026

    Turid Müller's new crime novel "Under the Beach" shows the effects of the "Cap Arcona" disaster right up to the present day.

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  • 20260423 CapArconaAusstellung Pönitz

    New exhibition in Pönitz

    12.05.2026

    The exhibition "Cap Arcona - May 3, 1945: The tragedy of the concentration camp ships in the Bay of Lübeck" focuses on eyewitness accounts.

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  • 20260506 Multiperspektif Ehrenfriedhof

    Focus groups accompany concept phase

    11.05.2026

    The Multi-peRSPEKTif group kicked things off: Three focus groups will provide specific impulses and impressions for exhibition development.

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  • 20260509 Baustelle Haakengraben

    Construction site for documentation center

    04.05.2026

    The gap between the buildings cannot be overlooked: The Cap Arcona Documentation Center is being built next to the zeiTTor Museum.

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  • Cap Arcona Gedenkfeier Grevesmühlen, 1974

    Personal stories wanted

    17.04.2026

    The exhibition organizers are looking for personal accounts of the events of May 1945 for the documentation center.

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  • 20251017 Julia Stefan am Rednerpult (c) Reimo Schaaf

    The concept

    03.03.2026

    Historian Julia Werner and historian Stefan Nies developed the concept for the Cap Arcona Documentation Center.

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