DERLA NÖ - Digital Remembrance Landscape Lower Austria

The |Digital Remembrance Landscape Austria (DERLA)| is a documentation and mediation project at the University of Graz, founded and coordinated by the |Center for Jewish Studies|, managed by Prof. Dr. Gerald Lamprecht. It records, updates and describes as completely as possible the existing Austrian memorials and signs of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism as well as the places of terror. In an interactive online map they are accessible. These annotated memorials for different groups of victims persecuted for a wide variety of reasons are intended to provide information and a critical examination of National Socialism, enabling a vigilant look at exclusionary and anti-democratic structures and tendencies of the present.

"Places of remembrance", i.e. memorials and monuments, memorial plaques and memorial sites are visible signs of a society's historical awareness at a particular time. The commemorative culture reflects the political awareness and social responsibility of a society: Which groups of victims are remembered where and to what extent? Which were or still are excluded from public remembrance? The inclusion and chronological classification of the memorials therefore describes Austrian society's confrontation with its National Socialist history as it has developed, changed and differentiated since May 1945.   

Lower Austria is the largest province in Austria in terms of area and its history is characterized by National Socialist violence. This project aims at the complete documentation of all manifest places and signs of remembrance in Lower Austria.

In cooperation with the |Center for Jewish Studies/University of Graz| and |erinnern.at|.

Further information: |mail: Martha Keil|
Project staff: |mail: Peter Hinterndorfer|

We would like to thank the Science Department of the Province of Lower Austria, the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, the Federal Chancellery Republic of Austria, the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for the Victims of National Socialism and the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria for funding the project.