The website www.wollheim-memorial.de folllows an interdisciplinary approach at the interface of historical scholarship and cultural studies, art and communication. These various access paths are present in the website’s structure and contents. On the first level are introductory texts, while a second level assembles scholarly essays that represent the current state of research. They are in pdf format, ready to download.

The texts at the first level draw from witness testimonies and accounts by survivors, historical documents and publications. They not only present historical facts but also explore the ways in which experience and history are represented in literature, film, and theater, and they pursue questions from the discipline of cultural studies regarding the possibilities and modes of bearing witness and the various ways of dealing with memory. Video interviews with survivors of the Buna/Monowitz concentration camp are the central component and primary source. In addition, files, legacies of papers, photographs, and maps are grouped here.

We hope you will find an abundance of variety and information as you read, look at, and listen to the materials collected here! If the memory of those murdered in Buna/Monowitz is carried forward—and if new questions are generated, so that the library and archives of the Norbert Wollheim Memorial are put into service, then this website will have accomplished its task.

(MN/SP; transl. KL)