POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
The core exhibition features a multimedia exhibition about the Jewish community that flourished in Poland for a thousand years up to the World War II Holocaust.
The core exhibition features a multimedia exhibition about the Jewish community that flourished in Poland for a thousand years up to the World War II Holocaust.
Housed in the Fortress of Peniche, the former political prison of the pre-revolutionary "Estado Novo" (New State), the Peniche Museum has a section dedicated to the anti-fascist resistance movement.
The Visit Room, located close to the reception and the Noble Hall of the Fortress, is a structure attached to the political prison, built in 1967 and used until April 1974.
Presently, the Core 1 of the Anti-fascist Resistance occupies this place, divided in 4 exhibition areas:
From the late 1940s, those involved in the resistance and political deportees began to plan a national resistance museum in order to preserve the memory of Luxembourg's victims of the Nazi occupation. A committee made up of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette, unions and representatives of resistance movements under the presidency of Ed Barbel, undertook a fund-raising exercise which led to the opening of the Resistance Museum on 22 July 1956. It is ñocated in the centre of Esch-sur-Alzette in the south-east of the country.
This exhibition contains photos, letters and other memorabilia related to the First World War.
The National Nigerian War Museum in Umuahia showcases the military history of Nigeria with relics form the Biafra-Nigerian civil war (1967-1970). The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were the main supporters of the Nigerian government in Lagos, while France, Israel and some other countries supported Biafra. France and Israel provided weapons to both combatants.
The permanent exhibition “Topography of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm- and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße” focuses on the central institutions of the SS and police during the “Third Reich” and the crimes that they committed throughout Europe.
The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus (Belarusian: Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі) is a non-commercial project of oral history from historians and other scientists from Belarus. Created as a virtual museum, it covers Soviet repression in Belarus.
In 2007, the Belarusian Christian Democracy party launched a campaign called "Repentance". The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression.
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre, a department of the Topography of Terror Foundation, is continually being developed as an educational site with an exhibitions and archive. The last well-preserved former Nazi forced labor camp is located in Schöneweide. In the Second World War it served as one of the more than 3000 collective accommodations dispersed throughout the city for forced labourers.
The Museum and Library of the Resistance in Sansepolcro was founded to commemorate the values of the Resistance from a historical and cultural perspective as well as to support research and protect documents about anti-fascism, concentration camps and political imprisonment by the regime.
The museum remembers the tragic passage of the front through Sansepolcro and the events that made the town become a turning point for the Second World War.
This museum illustrates the values of citizenship and solidarity brought by the Resistance during the Second World War. Dedicated to all those who sacrificed themselves to defend the fundamental values of the Republic, its vocation is to make the memory alive by offering a place of pedagogy and dissemination of information, especially for young audiences.
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.