Football and Remembrance

Sport and the history of sport is our passion. What sport is and what significance sport has had for societies or individuals can be told as a story of spectacular events, moving feelings, fascinating or regulated bodies, as a story of emancipation, great success or failure, as a story of belonging and community or as a story about exclusions. It is difficult to imagine a modern social history without sport. The Sports Museum Berlin deals with the significance and diversity of sport in Berlin, German and transnational history through research, education, collection and exhibitions.

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The memorial is a decentralised overall concept that takes visitors through authentic places on an immersive journey through history. The specific history of the Oranienburg concentration camp, Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the Soviet special camp is thematically linked in 13 exhibitions. As a place of remembrance and learning as well as a modern museum of contemporary history, it combines traditional tasks such as collecting and preserving testimonies with scientific research and historical-political education. A place of remembrance, learning and experience that presents the past in a multi-layered perspective.

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The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre in Berlin-Schöneweide is the only institution on the historic site of an almost completely preserved forced labour camp in the middle of a residential area. Since 2006, it has been making visible the long-hidden fate of the more than 26 million men, women and children who were exploited as forced labourers by the Nazi regime during the Second World War.

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In 1992, the “Steinwache” was opened at Steinstrasse 50 in Dortmund as a memorial. It is located in the old Dortmund police prison, where more than 66,000 people were held during the National Socialist era and were often mistreated, especially by the Gestapo.

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The (preserved) former large cattle hall of the Düsseldorf abattoir served as a collection centre during the Second World War: Almost 6,000 Jewish people from the region were deported from here to the ghettos in occupied East Central Europe. The memorial site documents these crimes at the historic site.

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The Düsseldorf Memorial and Education Centre, located in the historic “Stadthaus” since 1987, is a place of remembrance, research and encounters. In addition to the permanent exhibition “Düsseldorf children and young people under National Socialism”, there are regularly changing special exhibitions and evening events.

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The Jewish Museum Frankfurt makes the diversity of Jewish cultures tangible, both past and present. To this end, it collects, preserves and researches cultural artefacts and evidence of Jewish life in Frankfurt. With its art and cultural history exhibitions, educational programmes and digital offers, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt sees itself as a museum without walls.

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During the Nazi era, FC Schalke 04 did not protect its Jewish members and supporters. On the contrary – many a member of the S04 ranks profited from the deprivation of rights of the Jews. This dark past gives rise to a social obligation for the Royal Blues.
The club has been facing up to this responsibility for more than two decades now. The message: Schalke stands for humanity, integration, tolerance and diversity. The project “Searching for clues – the fate of Jews at Schalke” deals intensively with the biographies of the Jewish Schalke players. It warns that it will end in disaster if the enemies of democracy abolish its values.
The accompanying book takes you to places where players, sponsors and officials of FC Schalke 04 once lived and left their mark in the centre of Gelsenkirchen. It leads us on a royal blue tour away from the floodlights of our club. A tour focussing on the lives and suffering of the Jews of Schalke.

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The Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres Foundation includes the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, the Stadthaus historical site and four other memorials and learning centres. The foundation commemorates National Socialist crimes, researches and communicates their history and consequences and preserves the memory of those persecuted by the Nazi regime.

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The Nazi Documentation Centre is dedicated to commemorating, researching and communicating the history of Cologne under National Socialism. It is based in the EL-DE House, where the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo was located from December 1935 to March 1945. The former house prison with over 1,800 inscriptions from prisoners is a unique memorial site.

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The memorial commemorates the victims and the history of Nazi forced labour in the Leipzig area. It is a contact point for former forced labourers and their relatives, researches aspects of the topic that have not yet been examined and collects historical evidence.

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The association Verein Tüpfelhausen - Das Familienportal e.V. is a non-profit and state-recognised provider of independent child and youth work in the Free State of Saxony. It acts as a highly frequented point of contact for children, young people and families in Leipzig-Leutzsch. The association is also involved beyond the borders of Saxony through independent youth exchanges in Europe and Israel. These enable valuable dialogues and new perspectives for the participants.

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On 22 March 1933, the Nazi regime opened a concentration camp on the site of the disused Royal Bavarian Powder and Ammunition Factory in Dachau. The detention and terror centre existed for twelve years. More than 200,000 prisoners from over 40 nations were imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and its sub-camps; at least 41,500 people died there from hunger, disease, torture, murder and the consequences of concentration camp imprisonment.

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During the Nazi dictatorship, the “Hotel Silber” was the headquarters of the Gestapo for Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Since 2018, this has been a place for historical-political learning and encounters. It is operated by the House of History of Baden-Württemberg and co-designed by Initiative Lern- und Gedenkort Hotel Silber e. V.

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