For digital database

Salzburg University documents places of remembrance

Stumbling stones as a place of remembrance(Bild: Greti Köhler)

On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, the University of Salzburg has documented 800 signs of remembrance and biographies. The data is part of the Austria-wide digi-database DERLA.

After intensive research work, the University of Salzburg has now delivered the Salzburg part of the DERLA database, which provides an overview of all historical sites that commemorate the crimes of the National Socialists. The project is a "contemporary tool for young people to make concrete references to the past," it says.

The project team: Marlene Horjes, Hasan Softić, Eva Bammer, Cassandra Burgstaller, Robert Obermair, Gerald Lamprecht, Johannes Dafinger, Christina Antenhofer, Bernhard Auinger, Barbara Schrotter, Jakob Calice, Patrick Siegele, Moritz Wein(Bild: Uni Salzburg)

800 places of remembrance documented
The data includes around 800 sites in Salzburg, such as monuments, street names and stumbling blocks. Biographies of victims were also compiled.

"We have created a low-threshold offer for Salzburg residents who want to get to grips with our regional history," say the two project managers Johannes Dafinger and Robert Obermair.

The Salzburg part of the documentation work was funded by the Ministry of Education, the state and city as well as the National Fund for Victims of National Socialism and the Future Fund.