Current projects
We are currently involved in these projects:
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As part of the EVZ's "Youth remembers internationally" project, the Bergen-Belsen Memorial is supporting the Zanis Lipke Place of Remembrance in Riga as a senior partner in the conception and development of a digital offering to complement the existing museum.
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MEMORISE creates a framework for the preservation and enhancement of archival material related to the Heritage of Nazi Persecution (HNP) by virtualising and linking multimodal HNP data resources and by developing and offering novel digital technologies as an access point for the general public to explore and engage with HNP. We will develop and evaluate a range of digital tools, pilot a data processing pipeline and support its use in places of remembrance or individually with an educational and social media approach.
You can find out more on the project website at
https://memorise.sdu.dk
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The Partnership for Democracy in Bergen is a cooperation between the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and the town of Bergen. It was founded in 2017 as part of the Federal Program "Living Democracy!" and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.
The project supports and promotes local civil society in its commitment to participation, equal opportunities and peaceful coexistence and solidarity. In the course of demographic change in rural areas, the issue of prospects for young people in particular will become increasingly important. Children and young people are encouraged to take responsibility and participate in democratic negotiation processes. The Partnership for Democracy also promotes dialogue between the generations. "Everyone is needed; democracy is all of us."
You can find out more about the project on the project website.
Contact:
Isabell Leverenz
"Partnership for Democracy" coordination and specialist centre
Bergen-Belsen Memorial - Education and Encounters
(05051) 479297 or (05051) 4759256
isabell.leverenz@stiftung-ng.de
Completed projects
Here you will find a selection of completed projects from recent years:
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The project "Football Contact Zones 2024 - The Football Community Lab" is a model project that builds on debates about the extent to which socio-political issues should have a place in football. As part of the Football Contact Zones, various participation-oriented formats were developed and combined - for example, meeting opportunities, art projects and football tournaments. The project enabled different target groups to engage with the unifying and marginalising aspects of football in a low-threshold manner. In the run-up to the Football Contact Zones, pupils and students were trained as multiplicators in the project. They helped to organise the Football Contact Zones and communicated the project content in a peer-to-peer approach together with the main project managers.
The project was organised by the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in cooperation with Makkabi Deutschland e.V. and the Institute for Didactics of Democracy at the University of Hanover as well as other partners at the individual venues. It was funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
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The project "'What benefits the state is right?' - historical education as a prerequisite for democratic action in Lower Saxony" aimed to sensitise and strengthen system-relevant professional groups for democratic action in dealing with their target groups through historical education.
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By combining cutting-edge concepts and practices from information science, museum education and digital storytelling, this project is developing a new approach to engaging with the Holocaust and its visual evidence in an age where digital technologies and the internet have profoundly changed our understanding of history. "Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age" (VHH) is an innovation action that has received €5 million in funding from the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme. The project started on 1 January 2019 and ended on 31 December 2022.
An international consortium was formed to develop the project's new understanding of digital curation. It comprises 12 Austrian, German, Israeli and French research institutions, museums, memorials and technology developers and is supported by associated partners in Europe and the United States.
You can find out more on the project website at
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Anti-Semitic abuse, threats and violent attacks against Jewish and non-Jewish clubs, players and their fans are not a new phenomenon in both professional and amateur football. However, sustainable and preventative measures to combat anti-Semitism as well as research that contributes to education and the further development of educational programmes have only been available in isolated cases to date. The qualitative project "Who against whom? Violence, marginalisation and the 'Jew' stereotype in football" by the Education and Encounters department of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial addressed this gap in research and practice.
In 2020, the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and the World Jewish Congress cooperated on the project, which also provided financial support during this project phase.
The project was funded as part of the Federal Program "Living Democracy" with funds from the BMFSFJ through the Lower Saxony Democracy Centre (L-DZ) and with funds from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice through the State Programme for Democracy and Human Rights and the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation.
The project has produced a brochure with recommendations for action against anti-Semitism in football. The brochure is aimed at all stakeholders who play an important role in working against anti-Semitism at the various levels of football - associations, clubs, players, fan projects, fans and other committed individuals.
The brochure is available for free download here:
The project serves as the basis for our educational programmes on anti-Semitism and discrimination in sport.