Hakhshara as a Place of Remembrance

Hakhshara as a Place of Remembrance is a joint project of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies (Potsdam) and the DFG project “Between Aliyah and Escape: Jewish Youth Organizations and Zionist Education under the Nazi Regime and in pre-State Israel from 1933-1945” (Braunschweig), together with the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin).

The project has three aims:

• As a network project, it serves to enable a transfer of knowledge amongst the often locally-based research of the individual Hakhshara sites. The network allows the sharing of expertise and experience, the development of cross-regional perspectives and the support of local initiatives.
• As a database project, it offers in-depth information about the Hakhshara sites freely available to the public with this online portal.
• As memorial project, it develops concepts to make former Hakhshara sites more visible. The goal is to have commemorative signs set up on-site that will provide information about the specific history of the site, as well as general information about the Hakhshara movement.