May 10
Film screening
Opened in 2024 by MMRD and the German Embassy, this temporary exhibition traces the East German communist dictatorship (1949–1989) and the memory processes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Santo Domingo, August 14, 2024 — The Dominican Resistance Memorial Museum and the Embassy of Germany inaugurated the temporary exhibition "The GDR in the culture of memory," at an official ceremony led by the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Ms. Maike Friedrichsen, and the founding director of the Resistance Museum, Dr. Luisa De Peña Díaz.
The exhibition is on view at the museum for five months and addresses the communist dictatorship that governed East Germany from 1949 to 1989 — the year the Berlin Wall fell and the process that led to German reunification began.
"The GDR in the culture of memory" examines how Germans worked to overcome the marks the German Democratic Republic left on its population. Through photographs, data and accounts, the exhibition explains the need to confront the past from the perspective of the victim rather than the perpetrator.
It also shows how German society came to understand that close examination of the structures of the dictatorial past and the commemoration of acts of civic courage and resistance are preconditions for living in a healthy democracy.
