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MEMOZE: Memory Places, Memory Spaces: ‘Glocal’ Holocaust Education through an Online Research Portal
Author(s): Rothstein, Anne-Berenike; Honke, Josefine; Widmann, Tabea
Editor(s): Walden, Victoria Grace
Date: 2021
Topics: Holocaust Commemoration, Main Topic: Holocaust and Memorial, Holocaust Education, Internet, Globalisation
Abstract: The online research portal MEMOZE is based on the local memory site Goldbacher Stollen, a tunnel system built by forced labourers of the Dachau concentration camp. Through different media, among them 360° online spaces, MEMOZE educates users not only about the site itself but also introduces major concepts in memory studies and transgenerational aspects of (mediatised) testimonies. As MEMOZE seeks for a better visibility and accessibility of an ineffective physical memory place, it serves as an example to examine the process of translating such places to the digital sphere. This chapter explores the portal’s possibilities to provide a ‘glocal’ Holocaust Education by analysing the different spaces of MEMOZE. These refer to key aspects of digital memory cultures, such as transfer, transgenerational dialogue, cultural expressions and commemoration. The website also addresses ‘empty spaces’, which represent the incompleteness of cultural memories.