Dates

These are our forthcoming events. Information on our previous activities can be found here.

Date	Venue/Location	Event
04.09.2025–30.10.2025	Stadtpark am Graben, Heppenheim	Photo Exhibition Ja zum Ehrenamt (Yes to voluntary work). The Bürgerstiftung Heppenheim has organised the exhibition which aims to recognize voluntary work by means of imposing photographs by the photographer Johannes Kaiser. The association Stolpersteine Heppenheim e.V. is participating along with many other Heppenheim clubs and societies and is represented on one of the exhibition’s professional photos.
27.10.2025 at 7.30 p.m.	Haus der Begegnung	Committee meeting
09.11.2025 beginning at 7.30 p.m.	Marstall	Organised by Stolpersteine Heppenheim e.V. Vom Recht auf Achtung und Respekt (on the right to respect) – remembering Janusz Korczak, a model for children and adults with texts, information and stories and klezmer music. Born in 1878 in Warsaw as Henryk Goldszmit, Janusz Korczak was murdered in 1942 in Treblinka. He was not a professor and never held a chair for education studies; as a Polish educator of Jewish heritage he was responsible for broken windows, ripped towels, painful teeth … for tears, laughter, sleep. There are plenty of reasons to remember him, now 80 years after his death, together with the children entrusted to his care. To remember his cheerful pedagogical methods and his respect for both children and adults. “I advocate the Magna Charta Libertatis as a law of principle for the child. Maybe there are others, but I have discovered these three basic rights: 1. The child’s right to their death. 2. The child’s right to today. 3. The child’s right to be who they are” (J. Korczak, 1918). Janusz Korczak was one of only a few humanitarian teachers who not only expressed their humanistic-pedagogical message but also lived it in their own lives. J. Dietermann is a minister of the EKHN (Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau). He became acquainted with Janusz Korczak and his pedagogy over many years. In a short talk, but above all with excerpts and stories from Korczak himself, he conveys a colourful and moving picture of this unique teacher of humanity. The reading is complemented by klezmer music played by Hildrun Wunsch, a graduate musician and teacher at the Heppenheim Music School (recorder). She is accompanied on the piano by Monika Hölzle-Wiesen, a recorder player and cembalist (instrumental instructor and artistic education) and ex-church musician at Jugenheim and Auerbach. Flyer (in German) here.

Date

Venue/Location

Event

04.09.2025–30.10.2025

Stadtpark am Graben, Heppenheim

Photo Exhibition Ja zum Ehrenamt (Yes to voluntary work).
The Bürgerstiftung Heppenheim has organised the exhibition which aims to recognize voluntary work by means of imposing photographs by the photographer Johannes Kaiser. The association Stolpersteine Heppenheim e.V. is participating along with many other Heppenheim clubs and societies and is represented on one of the exhibition’s professional photos.

27.10.2025 at 7.30 p.m.

Haus der Begegnung

Committee meeting

09.11.2025 beginning at 7.30 p.m.

Marstall

Organised by Stolpersteine Heppenheim e.V.

Vom Recht auf Achtung und Respekt (on the right to respect) – remembering Janusz Korczak, a model for children and adults
with texts, information and stories and klezmer music.

Born in 1878 in Warsaw as Henryk Goldszmit, Janusz Korczak was murdered in 1942 in Treblinka. He was not a professor and never held a chair for education studies; as a Polish educator of Jewish heritage he was responsible for broken windows, ripped towels, painful teeth … for tears, laughter, sleep. There are plenty of reasons to remember him, now 80 years after his death, together with the children entrusted to his care. To remember his cheerful pedagogical methods and his respect for both children and adults.

“I advocate the Magna Charta Libertatis as a law of principle for the child. Maybe there are others, but I have discovered these three basic rights: 1. The child’s right to their death. 2. The child’s right to today. 3. The child’s right to be who they are” (J. Korczak, 1918).

Janusz Korczak was one of only a few humanitarian teachers who not only expressed their humanistic-pedagogical message but also lived it in their own lives.

J. Dietermann is a minister of the EKHN (Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau). He became acquainted with Janusz Korczak and his pedagogy over many years. In a short talk, but above all with excerpts and stories from Korczak himself, he conveys a colourful and moving picture of this unique teacher of humanity.

The reading is complemented by klezmer music played by Hildrun Wunsch, a graduate musician and teacher at the Heppenheim Music School (recorder). She is accompanied on the piano by Monika Hölzle-Wiesen, a recorder player and cembalist (instrumental instructor and artistic education) and ex-church musician at Jugenheim and Auerbach.

Flyer (in German) here.