On 8 October 2025, Professor Esra Özyürek will deliver the annual Holocaust and Genocide Studies lecture in Amsterdam. The lecture will focus on her recently published book Subcontractors of Guilt.

UvA Aula, Singel 411, 1012 WN Amsterdam, 3.45 PM.
Register by e-mail: bestuurssecretariaat@niod.knaw.nl.

At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country’s Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany.

In her lecture, Esra Özyürek explains that the German government, German NGOs, and Muslim minority groups have begun to design Holocaust education and anti-Semitism prevention programs specifically tailored for Muslim immigrants and refugees, so that they, too, can learn the lessons of the Holocaust and embrace Germany’s most important postwar democratic political values.

After the lecture, there will be a Q&A with the speaker.

More information and registration.