Rewarded remembrance: State Prize for Uni Graz project

Federal Minister Martin Polaschek honoured Gerald Lamprecht from the Centre for Jewish Studies and his team Victoria Kumar (OeAD), Grit Oelschlegel (Academy of Fine Arts) and Sebastian Schiller-Stoff (University of Graz, Department of Digital Humanities; from right) for their critical view of history and innovative ideas against forgetting. Photo: BMBWF/Sabine Klimpt

Gerald Lamprecht and his research team were awarded the Austrian State Prize for Historical Research in the "Innovative History" category for the "Digital Map of Remembrance" project.

There are hardly any contemporary witnesses left who can report on the atrocities of the Nazi regime. To ensure that this dark chapter in history is not increasingly forgotten, Gerald Lamprecht and his team from the Centre for Jewish Studies, digital humanities scholars and history didactics experts have created a "digital memory landscape" for Austria in cooperation with the OeAD: a digital map on which places and symbols of remembrance for victims of Nazi terror are recorded. "We want to enable a contemporary critical examination of National Socialism," reports Mr Lamprecht. Specific educational offers for young people promote a critical examination of the period. Education Minister Martin Polaschek awarded the researchers the Austrian State Prize for Historical Research: "The prize makes it clear that scientific findings belong in the center of society so that they can make an important contribution to overcoming current challenges and strengthening trust in science and democracy," he argued.

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