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Multi-talented, fiery current student Stellar Meris (DAI 2024 - 2026) recently published an article in UntoldMag titled 'A Journey through a Swiss-German Family Archive: From Colonial Palestine to Today’s Repression of Solidarity'. Through letters, photos, and memoirs, Meris unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt fuels its repression of solidarity and the rewriting of history'.

From the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 until 1948 the German colony of Waldheim was used as an internment camp by the British. The picture shows a police station at the entrance to Waldheim; the British employed a Palestinian man as a guard. During this period, Germans were only allowed to leave the colonies with a pass issued by the British. © Private photo archive of Andi Meyer, reprinted with permission.
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The article is part of the dossier “What is to be Done?“, edited by Himmat Zoubi and Diana Abbani. The dossier, explores the role of academic, artistic, activist, and media practices amid ongoing genocide and the possibilities for action, solidarity, and resistance in Germany and beyond.

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