MemoMap enables users to map the fate of Prague’s Jewish community in WWII
Research on the Holocaust is experiencing turbulent development, with historians still the most active on the topic, but sociologists, anthropologists and scholars from the social sciences and humanities also increasingly making contributions, Michala Jandák Lončíková from Masaryk Institute told the ctk news agency on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp.
One of the Institute’s many projects is the MemoMap which allows users to map the fate of Prague’s Jewish community in the Second World War. Thanks to the app, users can trace the stories of individual Jewish inhabitants -where they lived in Prague, where they were arrested and places from which they were banned on Nazi orders.
The authors of the project plan to map other places in the Czech Republic as well, so as to throw more light on the fate of Jews in Czechia and bring their stories to the attention of the younger generation.
The MemoMap app was created by the Masaryk Institute and the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The application displays the data of more than 30,000 Holocaust victims.