Esther Rachow as Fellow at the IGdJ

We warmly welcome Esther Rachow from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She will spend the next four months as a Fellow of the Institute in Hamburg to work on her current research project. The fellowship is supported by the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS.

During my time at the IGdJ in Hamburg, I will focus on the impact of the digital turn on Hamburg's culture of remembrance of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. In particular with the role of digital mediation concepts at central historical sites of the Nazi era in and around Hamburg. I am particularly interested in two levels of this phenomenon, which represent central influencing factors for the current culture of remembrance and knowledge transfer about the Nazi era: 1. the digital dimension of spatialization and visualization of accessible and non-accessible historical sites and 2. the importance of experiential knowledge from first-person documents of eyewitnesses and to what extent the contextualization of these historical pedagogical dimensions in Hamburg's local Jewish and Nazi history is an important factor for the learning experience. I am particularly pleased to have the opportunity to conduct this study in Hamburg, which is relevant to my research.