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About this app

The years 1933 to 1945 also left deep marks on the Saar. Places and people bear witness to persecution, exclusion and resistance during the Nazi era. The app “Places of Remembrance” tells about this on several discovery tours through Saarland towns and communities. The app invites school classes, youth groups, but also interested adults to learn about the Nazi era on the Saar.

But places from German-French history as well as historical and new places of the women's movement also find their place in the app's various tours.

The app can be used in a variety of ways: texts, audios and images can be used together, but also solo on the tours. There are also historical photos, statements from contemporary witnesses, newspaper articles and literary texts.

The app is not intended for commemoration from the sofa, so many tours can also be played as a “scavenger hunt”. Questions are asked whose answers can only be found on site.

The tour “Resistance and Persecution 1933 to 1945 in Saarbrücken” provides information about places where opposition members from the Saar region met with refugee politicians, trade unionists and journalists who, after the Nazi seizure of power, came to the then still free Saar region had fled. Places like the pension of the former Reichstag member and co-founder of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Marie Juchacz. Shops that show what charisma Jewish life had not only for Saarbrücken's Bahnhofstrasse or the location of the former synagogue, creative space for the then Rabbi Friedrich Rülf, who had great importance for the lives of Jews. After the Saar vote on January 13, 1935 and the associated annexation to Nazi Germany, they quickly became victims of persecution and extermination.

The tour “Places of Remembrance of Nazi History” provides information about the Nazi era in Homburg at 6 stops and thus contributes to a sustainable and lively culture of remembrance.

The “Paths of Remembrance” deal with the traces of Jewish life in Sötern, Gonnesweiler and Bosen.

The “Gestapo Camp Neue Bremm” tour tells a total of eleven stations about everyday life in the camp, the prisoners and perpetrators of the former Neue Bremm camp in Saarbrücken, and how the site has been dealt with since 1945.

The bike tour “Radeln&Erinnern / Faire du vélo et se souvenir” takes you bilingually to and on the border to various places in the German-French region. History and the people who lived there, fought, were imprisoned or spend their time in these places today.

The “Saarlouis” tour commemorates the events of anti-Semitism and persecution in the Third Reich. The history of the city from 1933 to 1945 is told at 13 stations.

The tour “The New Women’s Movement”, on the other hand, dares to jump back in time and traces the new women’s movement in Saarbrücken, its development and its consequences.