The Schleswig-Holstein Citizens’ Foundation, which was founded in 2002, supports institutions and projects dedicated to commemorating victims of Nazi persecution as well as historical-political education and National Socialism research. The website includes a complete overview of all memorial museums and places of remembrance for the victims of Nazi crimes in Schleswig-Holstein. In addition, the website contains information about funding opportunities, projects, and events, as well as about the foundation and its network.
In the state of Thuringia, the two memorial sites, Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, are united in one foundation, which deals with the history of the camps of the Nazi crime system and the special camp in Buchenwald (1945-1950). The website offers detailed information on the history, exhibitions, collections, educational opportunities, and research activities of the various camps. The website also lists the basics aspects of the memorial museum foundation as well as current reports, projects and event dates.
https://www.stiftung-bayerische-gedenkstaetten.de
The Dachau and Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial museums are combined in the Bavarian Memorial Museums Foundation. In addition to extensive information on Dachau and Flossenbürg, the website also contains an overview of concentration camp subcamps and cemeteries. Descriptions of the foundation’s tasks and organisation, as well as information about events and services, complete the offer.
The Brandenburg Memorial Museums Foundation manages six memorial museums in the state of Brandenburg: Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, Belower Wald, Leistikowstraße Potsdam, and, in Brandenburg an der Havel, the memorial museums for the victims of the “euthanasia” murders and the Brandenburg-Görden prison. Detailed descriptions of each location can be found on the foundation’s website. The various state crimes are examined together under the umbrella of the foundation and, in part, in the same facilities: the history of Nazi persecution from 1933 to 1945 in Below, Brandenburg, Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen; Crimes of the Soviet occupying power and the GDR from 1945 to 1989 in Sachsenhausen, Potsdam, and Brandenburg. The offers on the website also include information about the foundation and events, reports, and references to literature.
The Lower Saxony Memorial Museums Foundation is based in Celle and is responsible for the Bergen-Belsen memorial museum and the memorial museum in the Wolfenbüttel prison. The website offers an in-depth overview of the history and activities of these two memorial museum sites. Since the funding of the non-governmental memorial museums is also one of the foundation’s main tasks, another area of the website includes the promotion of memorial museums in Lower Saxony. Here the landscape of remembrance is explained in its entirety. Detailed information on financial support possibilities is also available.
https://stgs.sachsen-anhalt.de
The Saxony-Anhalt Memorial Museums Foundation includes seven facilities: the Lichtenburg Prettin concentration camp, the Langenstein-Zweiberge subcamp, the Isenschnibbe Field Barn memorial museum, the Bernburg memorial museum dedicated to the victims of Nazi “euthanasia”, the Roter Ochse prison in Halle and Moritzplatz in Magdeburg, and the memorial museum dedicated to the division of Germany at the former Marienborn border crossing. The foundation’s activities include the exploration of crimes perpetrated by the Nazi regime, as well as the serious violations of human rights during the Soviet occupation and the GDR dictatorship. The foundation advises initiatives in the federal state, organises exhibitions, and issues publications.
The memorial museums Pirna-Sonnenstein, Ehrenhain Zeithain, Großschweidnitz, Münchner Platz Dresden, Bautzen, as well as the Dresden Documentation Centre and the Torgau Documentation and Information Centre, are integrated into the Saxon Memorial Museums Foundation. The persecutions perpetrated during the Nazi era are examined, as are those of the Soviet occupying power and the GDR dictatorship. The website provides information on the individual memorial Museums as well as on the basics features and structure of the foundation. In addition, information on opportunities related to funding, education, research, and publications can be accessed here.