On May 24, 2025, the Berlin Living Room will invite Adam Kerpel-Fronius, a staff member of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation in Germany.
Adam was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1975. In 1990, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he moved with his family to Freiburg, in southwestern Germany. He later studied political science and history in Freiburg, Wrocław (Poland), and at the Free University of Berlin. His academic interests have long focused on the legacies of dictatorship in Europe and the democratic transformation of Central and Eastern European countries.
Adam Kerpel-Fronius moved to Berlin in 1997. In his early years there, he worked as a tour guide specializing in the city’s history. After the opening of the Holocaust Memorial in May 2005, he has worked in its educational department. Since 2009, he has managed the Foundation’s project Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance (Gedenkstättenportal), which provides information on hundreds of memorial sites across Europe dedicated to victims of National Socialism. His main field of research is European memory cultures.
He is also the editor of three autobiographies by Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe and the curator of the German-Belarusian travelling exhibition “Extermination Camp Maly Trostenets: History and Remembrance.” To this day, he has maintained a keen interest in the cultural and political life of his native Hungary and often contributes political commentary to various media outlets there.
At this Berlin Living Room event, Kerpel-Fronius will reflect on his upbringing and migration experience, and speak about his relationship with Germany—and Berlin in particular—as a Hungarian immigrant. He will explore how the politics of memory have shaped his academic and professional path, and how he continues to participate in the production of memory across Europe.
He will also discuss the exhibitions he has curated, his editorial work on interviews with Eastern European Holocaust survivors, and the political challenges he encounters in his work in Germany from across the ideological spectrum.
Speaker Bio
Adam Kerpel-Fronius was born in Budapest in 1975 and moved to Germany in 1990. He studied political science, modern history, and German literature in Freiburg, Wrocław, and at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2005, he has worked at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, developing educational programs. Since 2009, he has been in charge of the project Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance (www.memorialmuseums.org), and he has published three autobiographies of Holocaust survivors.
Event Details
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2025
Time: 15:00–17:00
Location: Berlin Living Room (Exact address will be sent upon successful registration)
Language: This event will be held in English
Registration: Due to the limited capacity of the Living Room, we invite participants to register with a short note or question they would like to share with the guest speaker. Please scan the QR code below and fill out the registration form. Upon successful registration, you will receive a confirmation email with the full event details.
Registration Deadline: May 23, 12:00 noon (Berlin time)
Important Notes
1. The event is open to adults and children aged 14 and above.
2. If you are unable to attend after registering, please cancel your registration promptly so others may participate.
3. Please arrive no later than 5 minutes before the event begins.
4. Video recording is not allowed during the event. We appreciate your understanding.
5. Photos will be taken during the event for internal use by Blaues Haus Stiftung. If you do not wish to appear in any photos, please let us know in advance.