The international conference The Disavowed is jointly organised by the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the NS Documentation Centre of Cologne, and the University of Barcelona’ s EUROM – European Observatory on Memories, with the collaboration of Catalonia International, a public – private consortium connecting Catalan institutions and citizens with partners worldwide.
The event forms part of EUROM’ s ongoing“ Subaltern Memories” series, launched in 2022 to give voice to marginalised and silenced communities that suffered repression throughout history. This year’ s edition is closely linked to the exhibition The Disavowed. Victims of National Socialism 1933 – 1945 – Today, on view at the NS Documentation Centre from October 8, 2025, to January 4, 2026.
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi authorities and police in Germany adopted and intensified prevailing social prejudices, persecuting and imprisoning tens of thousands of people, many of whom were murdered. Their aim was to construct a so-called Volksgemeinschaft(“ national community”) through the violent enforcement of an“ order of inequality.”