Overviews by Federal States

Baden-Wuerttemberg

https://www.gedenkstaetten-bw.de

The website “Memorial Museums in Baden-Württemberg” of the State Centre for Political Education Baden-Württemberg contains an overview of all memorial sites and initiatives in the region, both in the form of a list and a map. The state working group of memorial museums and memorial museums initiatives in Baden-Württemberg (LAGG) is also presented. The website provides information about the memorial museums’ work, educational opportunities, and events. There is also a collection of materials, a list of publications, and a thematic search. In addition to the offers for historically interested users, memorial museums can find detailed information about funding and application procedures.

 

Bavaria

A comprehensive overview of the memorial museums and documentation sites for the Federal state of Bavaria does not yet exist. A number of sites can be found on the homepage of the Bavarian Memorials Foundation:

https://www.stiftung-bayerische-gedenkstaetten.de

 

Berlin-Brandenburg

https://www.orte-der-erinnerung.de

The “Places of Remembrance 1933-1945” of the Permanent Conference of NS Memorial Museums in the Berlin area offer an overview of memorial museums, documentation centres, and contemporary history museums in the region. The Permanent Conference (Ständige Konferenz)is an association of memorial museums that foster the cooperation between NS memorial sites and joint projects. Its website presents news from the five participating memorial museums as well as event information and an overview of all exhibitions that are shown in these facilities. An overview of the educational offers, as well as lists of databases, links, libraries, and publications complete the website.

https://bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de

The Berlin-Brandenburg education server provides a brief overview of the most important memorial museums in the region and their educational offerings. Other important nationwide and international memorial museums are made more accessible for the user.

 

Bremen

There is no overview of its memorial museums, documentation sites, related initiatives, or monuments in the federal state of Bremen. The State Centre for Civic Education is responsible for the Bunker Valentin Memorial and the “Stolpersteine Bremen” project. Information on these can be found on the website https://www.lzpb-bremen.de.

 

Hamburg

https://gedenkstaetten-in-hamburg.de

The website “Memorial Museums in Hamburg to Commemorate Nazi crimes” was created and is managed by the Hamburg Memorial Museums and Learning Centres Foundation. The site contains a detailed list of memorial museums, monuments, exhibitions, plaques, and cemeteries with a Nazi reference in Hamburg. The overview offers the possibility of searching by topic and has a category devoted to site locations. In addition, the user can learn about current events and reports from the memorial sites.

 

Hesse

http://www.gedenken-in-hessen.de

The federal state’s website of the working group for memorial museums and remembrance initiatives from the Nazi era offers an overview of “Memorial Museums and Remembrance Initiatives of the Nazi era in Hesse” as well as information about the state working group itself. The overview includes a map with annotations and an alphabetical list of the participating institutions.

https://hlz.hessen.de

The Hessian State Centre for Civic Education uses a map to provide an overview of the memorial museums that examine the Nazi regime and the SED dictatorship. Another focus here is on places of Jewish life and Jewish history. The state centre also provides information on the website about the funding of trips to memorial museums.

 

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

https://www.gedenkstaetten-mv.de

The Association of Memorials in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania provides a list with a map of all memorial museums and places of remembrance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. No distinction is made between National Socialist and GDR state crimes. You can also find information about the working group and its guidelines, as well as view the minutes of the annual conferences, known as “round tables”.

 

Lower Saxony

https://gedenkstaettenfoerderung.stiftung-ng.de

A department of the Lower Saxony Memoria Museums Foundation is responsible for supporting non-governmental memorial museums in Lower Saxony. An overview of these non-governmental memorial museums, initiatives, and monuments can be found on the foundation’s website. In addition, the foundation provides information on funding opportunities, and activities of the memorial museums related to collection, research, documentation, education, and libraries.

 

North Rhine-Westphalia

http://www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de

The website of the Working Group for National Socialist Memorial Museums and Places of Remembrance in North Rhine-Westphalia e.V. contains a list of memorial museums in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as an overview for those all of Germany. Additional information on events, news from the memorial museums, and literature about the sites can be found here. You can also learn more about the working group as well.

 

Rhineland-Palatinate

https://www.lagrlp.de

The members of the State Working Group for Memorials Museums and Remembrance Initiatives are listed on the website with their location and address, as well as further information on the state working group and its activities and publications.

The State Centre for Civic Education presents the Osthofen and Hinzert memorials it operates in detail on its website: https://www.gedenkarbeit-rlp.de

 

Saarland

http://erinnert-euch.de/
https://www.erinnerungsarbeit-saarland.des

The state working group on remembrance work offers a wide range of activities to educate people about the Nazi era. There is no overview of the three memorials for Nazi victims in the federal state.

 

Saxony

https://slag-aus-ns.de

On its website, the Saxon State Working Group for the “Study of National Socialism” presents the memorial museums, initiatives, and places of remembrance in its care. The website also provides information about the advisory services, current activities, and materials.

With its office in Dresden, the Saxon Memorial Museums Foundation presents the work of the institutions it supports on its website. https://www.stsg.de.

 

Saxony-Anhalt

There is no comprehensive overview of all state and non-state memorial museums and initiatives for this federal state. The Saxony-Anhalt Memorials Foundation, based in Magdeburg, nevertheless lists the facilities that it institutionally supports on its website: https://stgs.sachsen-anhalt.de/stiftung-gedenkstaetten-sachsen-anhalt

 

Schleswig Holstein

https://gedenkstaetten-sh.de

The Schleswig-Holstein Memorial Museums Foundation provides an overview in the form of a list and a map. In addition, information and reports from the memorial sites, as well as event notifications are listed. The website also provides information on the institution and the funding of memorial museums.

 

Thuringia

https://www.buchenwald.de

For Thuringia there is no state-wide overview of the memorial museums and documentation sites that deal with the history of the Nazi era. Memorial museums and monuments to commemorate the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps and their satellite camps are presented on the website of the associated memorial foundation.