Memorial Development 2022-2024
Develop a site-specific concept for a permanent memorial to the victims of the Jungfernhof camp, to be erected at the site. The memorial will have three components:
A four-sided Lock(er) of Memory naming memorial referencing the four transports, with an inner chamber or locker designated for telling an intimate story about the camp;
A memorial garden that uniquely references the camp’s slave labor agricultural farm; and
A protective canopy simulating the movement of human breath, that hangs above the recovered mass grave.
Conduct workshops with art and architectural students at universities in Latvia, Austria, Germany and the US to discuss the project and the conceptual plan for a memorial at the site. Invite ideas in the form of drawings, to be curated and displayed on the project website.
Drone Photogrammetry identifying mass grave at Jungfernhof concentration camp (2021).
Link findings of a mass grave at the Jungfernhof concentration camp to project funding. Holocaust organizations in Germany, Austria and the US, bearing a special responsibility to remember victims of National Socialism, are obligated to protect the bodies of Jewish victims found in unmarked mass graves. Support for project research and memorialization at a killing site is not optional, it is expected, in accordance with the founding principles of each institution. Regarded by some as an endangered site, the Jungfernhof concentration camp is further obscured by the presence of a recreation park.
Use conceptual framework for memorial development provided by founding director, Karen Frostig.
Develop an international committee, chaired by director Karen Frostig, to oversee process for memorial development.