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FLOSSENBÜRG MEMORIAL | ALBUM 2021 91 A P R I L Anniversary of the liberation of Flossenbürg The act of remembrance marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Flossenbürg on 25 April could only be attended by a small number of people due to COVID-19 restrictions. Those in attendance included Karl Freller (Director of the Bavarian Memorial Foundation), Prof. Jörg Skriebeleit (Director of the Flossenbürg Memorial) and Kerstin Schreyer (Bavarian State Minister for Housing, Building and Transport). The Mayor of Flossenbürg, Thomas Meiler, and Dean Karlhermann Schötz, representing Förderverein für die KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossen- bürg e.V., were also present. The act of remembrance was livestreamed from the Flossen- bürg Memorial in German and English. A few days later, the recording was also made available in Polish, Czech, Italian, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Russian and French. On 23 April – exactly 76 years after the camp’s liberation – the Flossenbürg Memo- rial kicked off the commemoration by launching the website “Live On”, which features eight short films documenting the lives of survivors after their imprisonment. The biographies represent the experiences of all survivors of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, offering insight into their efforts to rebuild their lives, the hardships they faced and their strug- gle for recognition. They tell stories of trauma, loss and new beginnings, wounds and healing, testimony and silence – each one illustrating that life after liberation was never easy.