About us

In the early 2000s, Memos started to operate as a grass roots initiative in Berlin. Supported by the German Federal Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future", we organized several encounters between young people from Germany and Israel involving survivors of the Holocaust, their children and grandchildren. Inspired by the outcomes of this transgenerational approach, we created an online-archive for interviews with contemporary witnesses of the National Socialist era (jungsein-33-45.de).

Based on the organization’s learning experiences in dealing with the manipulation and instrumentalisation of children and youth in National Socialist Germany, Memos began to engage in the youth sector. On 20 December 2007, the organization was registered as an NGO at the district court of Berlin-Charlottenburg.

By and by, partnerships with actors in the youth field were established, first within Berlin. There, our key partners are the youth center DTK-Wasserturm, the Football-Club SC Berliner Amateure and the memorial museum and learning center "Haus der Wannsee Konferenz". Outside Berlin, Memos has established a steady working relationship with the youth office in Nuremberg.

Since 2012, Memos has been building ties within transnational networks. The German National Agency "Youth in Action" and SALTO have been instrumental in Memos’ capacity development, both from an individual and an organizational point of view. Through Erasmus+, Memos has stepped on the European floor. Most promising ties have grown with the Institute for Youth Development KULT in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Volunteers Centre Skopje in North Macedonia.