The Ecumenical Plötzensee Days () are an annual event, commemorating martyrs and victims of National Socialism. They take place at the catholic commemoration church Maria Regina Martyrum and at the Protestant Church of Plötzensee.
The events take place around January 23, Helmuth James Graf von Moltke's day of death, and January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Besides cultural programs as performances of opera, concerts or theater, lectures and vespers are fixed parts in the calendar of events.
Clarita von Trott zu Solz, Rosemarie Reichwein (1992), Bishop Albrecht Schönherr (1996), Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (1998), Jizchak Schwersenz (1999), Günter Brakelmann (2009) and Andreas Maislinger have been lecturing or preaching among others.
Topics 1992: The Kreisau Circle and its meaning today 1993: Renate Wind: „Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen“ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1994: Friedrich Georgi: „Wir haben das Letzte gewagt“; Wörmann: „Widerstand in Charlottenburg“ 1995: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke’s 50th anniversary of death 1996: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the preaching seminar in Finkenwalde 1997: Sigrid Jacobeit: Ravensbrück 1998: Being Christian after Auschwitz 1999: Jizchak Schwersenz 2000: Hans Krasa: Brundibár 2002: Ecumenical Vespers 2003: Harald Poelchau 2005: "60 years later" 2006: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s 100th birthday 2007: "Mother Marija Skobtsova – Martyr of Ravensbrück" 2008: "Locations of audacity" („Silent heroes") 2009: Helmuth James von Moltke – in the land of godless people. 2010: Franz Jägerstätter
External links homepage of the Evangelical church at Charlottenburg North press release of the Evangelical church Berlin-Brandenburg press release of the Catholic church Berlin