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Hakhshara as a Place of Remembrance
Digital Humanities, European-Jewish HistoryResearchers: Daniel Burckhardt, Julia Kleinschmidt, Miriam Rürup, Nina Zellerhoff in cooperation with 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” at the TU Braunschweig and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Foundation, Berlin.
Duration: 2022-
Starting in the 1920s, many Jewish youths and young adults were being prepared for emigration to Palestine with a self-organized, practical education on mostly agricultural estates. The mostly agricultural, horticultural, manual or domestic training was a prerequisite for immigration to Palestine. In order to bundle the hitherto scattered sources and scholarship on the various places of the Hakhshara, many of which were located in today's Brandenburg, an online database on research, remembrance and knowledge transfer of the history of Hakhshara is being created. The aim is to link the local and regional history with the transnational structures of this movement.
In addition to the further development of the database, the project aims to establish a network that will serve the transfer of knowledge about the Hakhshara. Likewise, in a second step - initially in a pilot project - memorial signs are to be set up at former Hakhshara sites, which will provide information on the specific history of the respective sites and also on general aspects of the Hakhshara.