Remembering the Shoah with Susanne Siegert

More than 6 million people in Germany are over 80 years old – many of them are contemporary witnesses of the Nazi regime. But this generation is slowly dying out. What does this mean for our culture of remembrance? How do we remember the Shoah when no one is left to tell the story? And how can remembrance look on social media today? In this episode, Jonas Ross talks to Susanne Siegert, known as Susi. She is a journalist and the creator behind the account “keine.erinnerungskultur” (no culture of remembrance) on TikTok and Instagram, for which she received the Grimme Online Award in 2024.

Susanne talks about her engagement with the culture of remembrance, about shortcomings in public commemoration of the Shoah, and about the danger of historical revisionist content on social media platforms.