Excerpt (1/2) of Dan Wolf from the documentary film "Sound in the Silence" by Jens Huckeriede

"There is no wrong. There is only what you do."
Sound in the Silence is an interdisciplinary performance project for high school students that centers on historical education. Each edition focuses on a specific location of 20th-century history. The students are introduced to each other’s culture, history, and identity. Through performance they express how the area has changed their understanding of their place in history.
In 2011 a group of 30 high-school students from Hamburg, Germany and Koszalin, Poland developed a site-specific performance on the site of the former concentration camp Neuengamme just outside of the city of Hamburg. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg they spent 5 days responding to the location, its history and the many emotions that arose. Despite openly voiced fears and initial reservations about dancing and singing at such a horrible site, the students from both countries entered into a process of finding new forms of remembrance and expressed their own, very moving way of dealing with the past.
This is an excerpt from the documentary film “Sound in the Silence” 2011 filmed in the brick factory on location at the memorial site for the concentration camp Neuengamme.