17-21 March 2010 Conference “What place do people with disability
and disadvantage have today in the house of Europe?”Hadamar, Germany
MARCH, 17Meeting Point – at the airport
Turkey and Portugal
Hadamar Schloss (palace)
First meeting at Vitos GmbH Festival Room
Petter Furth propose a game to know each other
Meeting in a network
“Come Together” – Official Welcome
Michael Ruoff – Mayor of Hadamar
Magda SkibaPresident of Canavan 2000 International
Jörg Bühring – Represative of Vitos Hadamar GmbH
Dr. Georg Lilienthal – Director of Hadamar Memorial
Jens Stoll – International Youth Educational Centre
Dinner at Vitos GmbH Festival Room
Gästehaus Priester - Guest House at Limburg
Vitos GmbH Festival Room
“The international network Caravan 2000 and its values”Magda Skiba
“Open Space”Moderation walls
“Human Rights for Women, men and children with disabilities all over the world”
Arnd Kunau – Representative of “People First”
“Open Space”Moderation walls
Memorial to the victims of the Nazi-"euthanasia"-crimes Dr. Uta George – Verein Zur Förderung der GedenKstätte Hadamar
Exhibition concerning the Nazi - “euthanasia"- crimes
People living in asylums, mental and remand homes were
considered an economic burden an official diction labeled them as “inferior", “ballast beings", and
“lives not worth living". An organisation based in Berlin
(Tiergartenstr. 4) planned and organized these killings which
were termed “euthanasia".
In November of 1940, the Hadamar Institution was
leased to the “Euthanasia-Zentrale" in Berlin by the President of the province
Hessen-Nassau and vacated
Guided tour through Hadamar MemorialThe former bus-garage
Gas-chamber institutions 1940/41 Grafeneck/Württemberg 9839 victimsBrandenburg upon Havel 9772 victimsBernburg upon Saale 8601 victimsHadamar near Limburg 10072 victimsHartheim near Linz 18269 victimsPirna-Sonnenstein 13720 vict
Gas-chamberBetween January and August of 1941 more than 10 000 people were killed with
monoxide gas in a gas-chamber screened as shower facility
Bodies were burned in incinerators
New Caravan Web-Page: http://www.caravan2000.eu/
MARCH, 19“In the midle of no where”
Presentation of the CountriesWorldcafe
Departure to Frankfurt
Visiting IB-Housing for people with mental and physical disability in Frankfurt
Physiotherapy room
Working with candles
Working with wood
“From extermination to UN-convention”Michael Thiele
Integrative Kulturcafe “Diana”Concert with “Satisfactory” – integrative rock band
MARCH, 20“Ethics”
Joachim Bertelmann – Chairman Baunataler Diakonie
Caravan Stones - Sculptures
“Planting” wishes…!
Farewell evening
MARCH, 21Departure
GoodbyeGoodbye Friends…! Friends…!
Music“Canção do Mar”
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