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italy

fondazione museo della shoah

The Fondazione Museo della Shoah main purpose is keeping alive and actual the memory of the tragedy of the Shoah among our society.

memoriale della shoah di milano

The Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah di Milano was founded with the purpose of establishing a place for gathering and remembering in the spaces deep inside Milan’s Central Station, in Italy.

fondazione fossoli

The objectives of the non-profit Foundazione are the dissemination of historical memory through the conservation, recovery and enhancement of the former Fossoli concentration camp.

Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah

The Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah - MEIS (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) was founded with Italian Law 91 of 17 April 2003, amended by Law 296 of 27 December 2006, to “bear witness to the events that have characterized the two thousand years of Jewish presence in Italy”.

Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza – Luoghi della Memoria Toscana

The purpose of the Foundation is to further the knowledge of contemporary memorial sites and promote research into the processes through which Fascism and Nazism arose and spread through Europe, as well as on persecution for racial, political and religious reasons, on deportation and daily life in concentration and extermination camps, on resistance and on the struggle for liberation.

germany

KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme

The Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial encompasses almost the entire historic site of the concentration camp, including 17 original buildings. It is one of the largest memorials in Germany (57 hectares), and approximately 100,000 people visit here each year.

Gedenkstätte und Museum Sachsenhausen

In 1993, following the political revolution in East Germany and the political reunification of Germany, the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum became part of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, a foundation under public law financed jointly by the federal state (Land) of Brandenburg and the federal government.

Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen

An exhibition by the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in cooperation with the Leibniz University of Hanover at the "Learning Center M.B. 89" in the Lower Saxony barracks (Bergen-Hohne).

KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau

The Memorial Site on the grounds of the former concentration camp was established in 1965 on the initiative of and in accordance with the plans of the surviving prisoners who had joined together to form the Comité International de Dachau.

Gedenkstätte Buchenwald

The foundation's purpose is to preserve the sites of the crimes as sites of mourning and commemoration, to provide these sites with a scientifically founded form and outward appearance and to make them accessible to the public in an appropriate manner, as well as to promote education through the research of the respective historical occurrences and their conveyance to the public.