About

In 2016, the founders of DENK MAL AM ORT (DMAO) held their first meeting. The idea was met with great enthusiasm. Some people in the neighbourhood had already researched the history of their apartment and the fate of its former residents persecuted during the Nazi era.

Ever since, DENK MAL AM ORT has been encouraging current residents to take an interest in the history of the house they live in and once a year to open their apartments for shared remembrances. In the company of descendants from around the globe and at authentic sites – a former apartment, a house, a courtyard, a stairwell, a garden, a workplace or a place of study – the persecution and flight of one-time residents is made palpable in stories, discussions, readings, exhibitions and music.

The DMAO history archive is an ongoing project. Apart from documentation, it stores memory films about those persecuted during the Nazi regime, in which contemporary witnesses, family relatives and current residents of their former homes can be heard.

DENK MAL AM ORT events take place annually on a weekend around the official capitulation date of the cities of Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Hamburg.

Admission is free