Community Café Mauthausen

Region of Awareness: A Site of Commemoration and Learning

Hosts: Alfred Zauner, Martina Handler

Hosting Organization/Sponsor: National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism (http://nationalfonds.org/); Government of the State of Upper Austria; Future Fund of the Republic of Austria; Austrian Ministry for Education and Women

Location: Mauthausen, Austria

Part of a Series? Closing event for a participatory process that included six focus groups, three idea workshops (each 1,5 days) and a marketspace meeting, in a period of six months.

Who Was The Café For? Citizens, policy-makers, politicians, researchers, staff of Mauthausen memorial site

Purpose: To engage the local population in shaping new approaches to commemoration and learning, related to the history of the concentration camps in the region and to the present and future

Numbers Attending: 100

Impact: Many ideas for continuing this participatory and inclusive approach to historical trauma and its healing were generated, citizens’ voices were heard and integrated into new proposals.

Links:

Event report

Summary of project

Documents in German:

Detailed event report

Website

Ideas for continuing the work