by Federica Sgorbissa and Francesca Rizzato [SISSA MEDIALAB] In Trieste, within the CU REMEMBER project, we designed and implemented two walking tours exploring how Nazi-Fascist persecutions intersected with the scientific, social, and institutional history of the...

by Katharina Wurzinger and Florian Edlinger [Gedenkdienst] Starting Point How do you teach history and remembrance to 7-12 year olds? How do you spark their curiosity, encourage their interests and cater to their learning needs when it comes to these topics? These...

by Thomas Troy [Vienna University Children's Office] On 20 April 2026, project partners, educators, researchers and stakeholders gathered at the DOCK in Vienna for the CU REMEMBER Interim Conference. As the project reaches its midpoint, the event provided an...

by Chiara Thörmer [Vienna University Children's Office] During the campus tour, primary school students follow a “Memory Trail” across the Campus of the University of Vienna. From the very beginning of the planning process, it became clear that the many impressions...

by Chiara Thörmer, Chris Gary, Thomas Troy [Vienna University Children's Office] Two Classes, Two Dynamics: Lessons from Pilot Campus Tours Two school classes, close in age – and yet the tours unfolded very differently. During the pilot sessions with a 3rd and a 4th...

by Chiara Thörmer, Chris Gary and Thomas Troy [Vienna University Children's Office] How can young people be introduced to the topic of remembrance? This question led to the development of a new interactive campus tour for school classes aged 7 to 12 at the University...

by Katharina Wurzinger and Florian Edlinger [Gedenkdienst] What We Learned from Our Co-Creation Workshop Series Although certain practices used in co-creation are standard in the educational work of the Gedenkdienst association, this series of workshops gave us the...

Screenshot of the online interview with Dominique Duboisby Dominique Dubois A descendant reflects on his interview experience and Austria's complex past (Pilot project in Vienna – Meet the Library) After I had accepted to participate in the CU REMEMBER project, to...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] Feedback from the students (Pilot project in Vienna – Meet the Library) We need constructive feedback to improve. Therefore, we prepared a short online survey and asked the participating students to...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] Video screening on 19 November, Gymnasium am Augarten (Pilot project in Vienna – Meet the Library) The production of the videos required enormous commitment from the participating school students who...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] Pilot Project in Vienna – Meet the Library: the Inverviews We were well aware that the interviews with the descendants of the persons expelled from the University and/or individuals close to them or...

by Jakob Gulder, Lea Engelmann, Philipp Depaoli [University of Vienna] How the student buddies experienced the MemoriaLink (Pilot project in Vienna – Meet the Library) In everyday history lessons, the culture of remembrance surrounding the Shoah is often overlooked,...

by Alexander Preisinger [University of Vienna/Gamelab] On the future of the game-based past Digital games are probably one of, if not the most dominant form of leisure entertainment among children and young people today (see the ‘Youth, Information, Media’ study). In...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] Preparing for interviews and working together with experts and university students Moving from biography to personal experiences requires thoughtful planning. In the last part (see also part 1 and...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] Biographies of academics and students expelled from the University Following a first workshop and an introduction to the University of Vienna's Archive and various sources (see our previous blog...

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© KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen: 14. Dialogforum 2023 by Natascha Bobrowsky [University of Vienna] / The persecution of homosexual women (Austria 1938-1945) In September, I had the opportunity to present aspects of my dissertation project at the CU...

by trafo.K KremsMakesHistory: How to Keep Local Memory Alive in a Small Austrian Town [During our workshop “How to Grätzl-Remembrance” we worked with people involved in different areas of remembrance culture. Among them were members of trafo.K, who will share one of...

by Cyril Dworsky [Kinderbüro Universität Wien] & Federica Sgorbissa [Sissa Medialab] During our recent workshops in Trieste, titled “Persecution and discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation under Nazi-Fascism in Italy and Austria”, journalist and...

by Veronika Schallhart and Thiemo Kronlechner [University of Vienna] The University of Vienna and National Socialism – through the lenses of academic secondary school students. In October 2025, two workshop days with school students in the final year of academic...

by Katharina Wurzinger & Florian Edlinger [Gedenkdienst] ¦ How to remember your neighborhood? ¦ Starting your own remembrance project can feel overwhelming at first – especially if it’s your first time taking on such an endeavor. That’s why, on September 25, we...

by Federica Sgorbissa [SISSA Medialab] / Gender and Intersectionality in Remembrance In Trieste we recently hosted two public events exploring how gender and intersectionality shaped experiences of persecution under fascism and how these perspectives can enrich...

by Florian Edlinger [Verein GEDENKDIENST] / Reflections from a Remembrance Education Panel How do we teach Holocaust Remembrance in a way that resonates with today’s young learners — children who are now the fourth or fifth generation removed from the events? On May...

by Dino Perco / Reflections on my participation in CU REMEMBER – Vienna, May 2025 On May 14, 2025, I had the honor of participating as a speaker in the panel “Discussing Remembrance! The Possibilities and Limits of Remembrance Education,” organized in Vienna as part...

by Annalisa Di Fant / Thanks to the involvement of the Department of Humanities at the University of Trieste, I was able to participate in the Kick-Off Meeting of the CU Remember project on March 27-28 in Vienna, representing the Museum of the Jewish Community of...

by Anna Krekic, Curator of the Risiera di San Sabba Museum - National Monument of Trieste The Risiera di San Sabba Museum - National Monument, managed by the Municipality of Trieste, is one of the most important places of remembrance of the Shoah and the Resistance in...

by Cyril Dworsky On March 27, 2025, the University of Vienna hosted a pivotal kick-off meeting for the CU REMEMBER project, which is an innovative initiative exploring the intersection of Children's Universities and remembrance culture and linking the history of...