| Project Management: | Mag. Dr. Helga Amesberger | |
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| Implementation: | Mag. Dr. Helga Amesberger Mag. Dr. Brigitte Halbmayr Mag. Gerlinde Schmid |
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| Funded by: | Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank, Project No. 14688 National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism Future Fund of the Republic of Austria Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer's Protection Chamber of Labour, Vienna Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture (bmukk), dept. IA/2 and dept. IT, Gender Federal Sates of Burgenland, Carinthia, Salzburg, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Vienna (MA 7 and MA 57) |
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| Completed in: | June 2013 | |
Since 2005, the Institute of Conflict Research has collected the names of former Austrian inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Through extensive research in Austrian and foreign archives, we were able to gather the names of 2,700 women and men as well as other important information regarding their lives before, during and – if they survived – after National Socialist persecution.
This project aimed at a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data collected, as well as to make this information and analysis accessible to the public. With regard to the latter, it was important to create a website to be used in schools and which allows independent research. Design and programming were done in cooperation with students of the HTL Donaustadt (under the responsibility of DI Ingrid Schreiber). A board of experts in the fields of media, didactics, pedagogics and history accompanied the development of the website. In addition to that, the proto-version of the website was tested by pupils and teachers.
The website www.ravensbrueckerinnen.at is structured along three main domains: biographies – themes – research.
Under the section "biographies", one can find 30 portraits of wo/men with different social backgrounds, who were persecuted for different reasons, and who were imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp (including photographs and documents).
The domain "themes" provides concise background information about the Ravensbrück concentration camp in general, the Austrian inmates, everyday life in Ravensbrück as well as life after liberation. In these short texts we always refer to the testimonies of survivors.
Under the section "research", the user can do her/his own queries about Austrian Ravensbrück inmates using various criteria; s/he can watch videos and documentaries about Austrian survivors. In the so-called "Lernraum" – a virtual classroom – we present suggestions for further questions for teachers, regarding the various topics addressed in the different sections of the website.
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