Working Groups

Literary Circle
The Literary Circle meets on a monthly basis, focussing on literary and scholarly publications and films that seek to come to terms with the experience of the Holocaust and other politically motivated traumas.
Contact: Johannes Pfäfflin and Hans Jürgen Paas

Film Group
The Film Group meets every two months. Twice a year it presents a documentary or film which deals with the Holocaust, the First or Second World War and the intergenerational consequences of trauma. Other topics that are adressed are e.g. antisemitism, racism or far-right extremism. Currently the group is inactive and searching for a new moderator. Instead, we are occasionally having film talks online.
Contact: Alexandra Senfft

Intervision Group
The Intervision Group is open to psychotherapists concerned with the ramifications of the Holocaust for symptomatology,  psychodynamics, and psychotherapeutic treatment.
Contact: Dr. Peter Pogany-Wnendt

Storytelling Lab
In 2021, we launched a new group called »Storytelling Lab«. This group meets once a month online and is our largest group. It is designed, also for newcomers to PAKH who would like to gain insight into our approach to dialogue and wish to learn about intergenerational transfers. Our focus is on the intergenerational consequences of the Holocaust and the ways in which the past continues to affect us personally and collectively. We also address current topics that are directly or indirectly linked to the NS era and its aftermath. We often invite members of our group or experts from outside to give us an input. We also work in small groups to give room for telling one’s own story. The group is open to non-members of PAKH; anyone who is interested in our activities or is considering membership is welcome.
Contact: Alexandra Senfft

Dialogue Group Cologne/Duesseldorf
This Dialogue Group meets every two months for storytelling and an exchange on current issues pertaining to intergenerational consequences and troubling topics in the present. Contact: Peter Pogany-Wnendt

Dialogue Group Berlin
This group meets on a monthly basis for storytelling or a writing workshop.
Contact: Dialoggruppe Berlin

Saturday Dialogue
In the Saturday Dialogue, members and guests discuss cur- rent and historical topics relating to the content focus and the  aims of the association. The invited guests are usually authors,  directors of films or radio dramas, or persons personally af- fected. Information about events held to date can be found at  https://www.pakh.de.

About us
The event “About us” offers a framework for dialogue and the  exchange of personal histories.

Public Events
At least once a year we organize public events and symposiums relating to different aspects of persecution during the Nazi era.

Cover image: Ausschwitz Birkenau © Alexandra Senfft