Ruptured Atlas (December 2023 – December 2024) is an innovative spatial architectural heritage of more-than-inhabitation project that employs creative, participatory mapping techniques to document the intricate and multi-layered built-environments and journeys of the Yazidis over the past ten years (since the 2014 Yazidi Genocide).

Our representative Dr Leyla Ferman took part in the project’s final symposium on 3 October.

Women for Justice e. V., the Interkulturelle Werkstatt e. V. and the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg have organised a series of events in Hamburg entitled “Ten years after the genocide against the Yazidis (Ezidis) | Remembering – Coming to terms – Consequences”. The event formats are varied: Exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and discussion events. Some of them are organised in cooperation with other partners.

All dates and the idea behind the series of events can be viewed here.

On 3 August, AK Asyl held an information stand in Bielefeld. The occasion was the 10th anniversary of the genocidal femicide of the Yezidis in Shingal. Interested people took flyers and looked at the photo exhibition organised by the Kurdish university group in Bielefeld. The donations collected were handed over to Women for Justice and will be used for the organisation’s projects. Thank you very much for this!

In June, we organised a workshop on creating podcasts with Sina Reisch as a speaker. Together with Indigo, Sina Reisch makes the German-language podcast “Geschichte der kommenden Welten” and shared her knowledge and expertise with our members. In the coming months, two young Yazidi women from Women for Justice want to produce a podcast from their own perspective.

Members of Women for Justice exchanged ideas with the “Wiener Holocaust Library” about working with archives. The exchange is an important part of further developing the work on an archive regarding the genocidal femicide of the Yazidis (Ezidis), which was started 10 years ago by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

The “Exhibition Panel: Archiving” ISIS can be viewed here.

“After `Die Sommer`, Ronya Othmann presents a contemporary testimony of international relevance with her second novel. She wants to find a form for the unspeakable, the genocide of the Ezidi population, the seventy-fourth, committed in 2014 in Shingal by IS fighters,” writes the Literaturhaus Hannover. Members of Women for Justice, including genocide-feminicide survivors, attended the reading in Hanover together.

There are several associations and institutions in Hamburg that are organising and implementing events and activities to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide of the Yazidis (Ezidis) for one year from 3 August this year. The Hamburger Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (Hamburg State Agency for Civic Education), Women for Justice e.V. and IKW e.V. are the organisers.

As part of this focus, we want to plant trees in Hamburg together with others in memory of Yazidis (Ezidis) and their children who are still in “IS” captivity. The idea is to plant trees and life for them.

We understand meetings with female survivors as the basis of all our work. We have been meeting female survivors from Sinjar (Şengal) both as inviduals and in groups. Besides social care and legal advice, we try to find out methods to enable Yazidi (Ezidi) survivors to make their own decisions in life here in Germany.