During the morning we headed to Münster, for a visit to Villa ten Tompel, a former industrialist estate, now transformed into a house of memory and social intervention. For three hours, the theme of History, Violence and Consciousness was worked on, based on its Permanent Exhibition, and the tireless work of one of its assistants, Anna. Villa ten Tompel functioned until 1945 as the office of a group of dozens of Nazi police officers, whose task was to send other policemen throughout occupied Europe to take part in the collective murder of Jews, Gypsies and Sinti, a subgroup of the Roma ethnicity. Currently the property belongs to the city, and those responsible for it are dedicated to preserving the memory and supporting the victims of racism and xenophobia, whose number has been growing exponentially. It was a very rich and enlightening morning, especially for the brilliant presentation of the aforementioned assistant. Münster is also known as the city of bicycles, and in fact they abound. It is even said that there are two bicycles for every inhabitant of the city. We visited some of Münster’s best-known attractions, such as different and interesting monuments, and its university.
The day ended with the arrival in Beelen where we were welcomed by Jugendtreff Beelen, who presented us with a conviviality, barbecue style, very pleasant and welcoming, with genuinely German food, with the Portuguese part making custard tarts and custard tarts, so that interculturality took on more delicious forms.
