Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at...
Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

The Berlin Wall Foundation was established as a foundation under public law by legislation passed on September 17, 2008. The foundation encompasses two institutions: the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial, both of...
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – HISMEDI

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – HISMEDI

The initial hypothesis of this research group is that the representation of History and Memory within the online environment has cognitive effects on citizens and promotes a specific kind of knowledge due to the fact that the processes of digitalization,...
Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom

The Kistler-Ritso Foundation established an Occupation Museum of the recent past in Estonia with the aim to study the developmental processes of the period 1940-1991, as well as to collect and exhibit relevant materials, both objects and documents. Its homepage is...