Historisches Museum, Jüdisches Museum und Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt

Frankfurt and the National Socialism. A memory platform

Digital memory platform of three major Frankfurt memory institutions

The Historical Museum Frankfurt, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the Institute for the History of Frankfurt are jointly designing an interactive and digital memory platform. The joint project will combine more than 15,000 datasets from the three institutions, which will then be processed and made available via an app and on a website.

Recalling National Socialist injustice

Today, the confrontation with National Socialism is now facing new challenges: In view of the dwindling number of historical eyewitnesses and the increasing diversity of urban society, new, inclusive and activating approaches are required. Under the National Socialists, the city of Frankfurt was transformed into an administrative center, which systematized the racist exploitation and persecution of its victims. Many places and signs in the city have reminders of individual aspects of this history.

Digital memory platform for a diverse urban society

The platform creates multi-perspective access to the discussion of the critical examination of National Socialist injustice in Frankfurt and makes knowledge accessible and usable for inclusive historical-political educational work with diverse groups of people. With the geo-based app, anyone with an interest can go in search of traces of the National Socialism in urban space. The website makes information about the approximately 12,000 Jews deported from Frankfurt and murdered publicly accessible.

"Frankfurt and Nazism" is a digital project of the Historical Museum Frankfurt, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and the Institute for the History of Frankfurt.

Numbers of visitors

  • 5,600 times

    has the website been accessed in the first month after the project's launch.

  • 2,600 visitors

    were registred in the Shoah Memorial Frankfurt in the first month after the project's launch.

  • 1,900 times

    the app has been downlowaded (as of mid-December 2022).

Data Sheet

Funding country: Germany
Duration: 01.10.2021 until 31.12.2022

www.historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
www.juedischesmuseum.de
www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de

More about the project

Education Agenda NS-Injustice

The Magazine of the Education Agenda NS-InjusticeThe Magazine of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice

The Education Agenda NS-Injustice started in autumn 2021 with two certainties: Firstly, the survivors are passing away; there are few chances today to meet eyewitnesses who can tell us first-hand about the atrocities committed by the National Socialists. Secondly, we are increasingly entering contexts in which boundaries between fiction and fact are blurred. Under these conditions, we are dependent on new ways of learning and innovative forms of conveyance in our critical examination of National Socialist injustice and in historical-political educational work. In the magazine we present the funding program, projects and current debates.

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