During a week-long retreat for the project "Asking the Pope for Help," a team from the Hamburg-based agency "Fork Unstable Media" presented the current designs for the new homepage. In addition to the scientific staff and assistants, the volunteer Citizen Scientists of the project were particularly well represented. They actively engaged in the discussions with a variety of ideas and suggestions for improvement.
the theologian Lorena König will write her dissertation at the Cluster of Excellence on Romania’s special position, analyzing the processes that protected numerous Jews who converted to the Catholic faith from being deported to an extermination camp. The three-year position is funded by the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster.
At a launch event on January 23, 2023, at the Catholic Academy in Munich, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf and his team from the University of Münster will present their research project "Asking the Pope for Help". In addition to answering initial overarching questions arising from the edition, Hubert Wolf will also discuss the project with prominent guests.
On the occasion of the commemoration day of the Reichspogromnacht Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Wolf will speak about the hitherto unknown petitions from Jewish Holocaust victims in the Vatican archives on November 9 as part of the hour of remembrance in the Münster Synagogue.
