How are concentration camp memorials using the platform TikTok for remembrance work? Liv Ohlsen and Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wagner take a look at the so-called Historytoks for Generation Z and show in a three-part blog series how concentration camp memorials are taking up this new form of digital remembrance work on their TikTok accounts.
The blog series “On the Digital Remembrance Work of German-Speaking Memorials on TikTok” was created as part of the interdisciplinary Leibniz research alliance “Value of the Past”. The third part of the series was published on 27 January 2025, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
Overview:
Part 1: #learnontiktok
Liv Ohlsen and Hans-Ulrich Wagner discuss the origins and early days of memorial work on TikTok. Click here for the first part.
Part 2: Storytelling
Analysis of the storytelling of selected accounts. Click here for the second part.
Part 3: Digital Stumbling Blocks
First summary and identification of open questions for the future of digital remembrance work. Click here for the third part.
Further information on the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past” can be found on the alliance’s website.
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