Lonsky Prison National Memorial Museum
Museum memorializing victims of occupation regimes set in a large, storied prison built around 1890.
Museum memorializing victims of occupation regimes set in a large, storied prison built around 1890.
The National Military Museum is located at the north western area of the three Haram Palaces, inside the Cairo Citadel. It overlooks the Mokattam hills and the entrance to the Citadel.
The "Hotel Silber" in Stuttgart was used by the police for more than half a century and was the headquarters of the Gestapo for Württemberg and Hohenzollern. In the former site of Nazi terror, a place for historical-political learning and encounter was created as a citizen participation project. The exhibition and various events deal with perpetrators and their victims, with the police institution and their role in three political systems.
While Camp Westerbork is mainly known for the period between 1942 and 1945, it was initially built in the summer of 1939 to house Jewish refugees coming from Germany. The acceptance of Jewish refugees into the Netherlands, however, was initially certainly not the norm. In 1938, after the first overt persecution of the Jews in Germany (the Kristallnacht), the Dutch government had sent 600 extra officials to the borders ‘for the protection of our own people’.
The company was founded by Clement Griscom, who led it from its founding until the International Mercantile Marine Co. took it over in 1902. Red Star Line survived IMM's financial crisis in 1915. In the 1930s Red Star Line was part of Arnold Bernstein Line.
House of Terror is a museum located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, Hungary.
The museum focuses on the historical event of the bombing of Guernika, and more broadly on the Spanish Civil War. It also hosts a Documentation Center collecting existing information worldwide regarding both the bombing of Gernika and the Spanish Civil War.
Just across the river from the Kremlin stands one of Moscow’s largest apartment complexes with a dark past. Built between 1928-1931 to accommodate the Soviet elite, it housed hundreds of victims of Stalin’s Great Terror whose tragic fate was immortalized in Yuri Trifonov’s novel “The House on the Embankment.” The author himself lived in the building as a child from 1931-1939 when his own father was executed at the height of Stalin’s purges.
The purpose of this website is to offer a guide to both general public and researchers of the museums of European political and violence, what content they offer and the topics that are not sufficiently represented. This website wants to help us to rethink the realities, shortcomings and possibilities of Public History in Europe.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.