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The German victims of Stalinism at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow 1950-1953
The digital death book donskoje.ffdigitalservices.com/ presents the biographies of 928 people who were sentenced to death by Soviet military tribunals (SMT) between 1950 and 1953, shot in Moscow and buried in the Donskoje cemetery. The convicts came not only from the Soviet Occupation Zone/GDR, but from all parts of Germany. Their place of birth and their last place of residence are localized on an interactive map and linked to their photos and biographies.
The biographies were compiled from 2004 to 2008 as part of an international research project sponsored by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship , Berlin, jointly by Facts & Files Historical Research Institute Berlin Berlin and Memorial International Society for Human Rights, Moscowwas researched and compiled. In the summer of 2005, a memorial stone for the German victims was unveiled at the cemetery in the presence of many relatives. The printed Book of the Dead was published for the first time in the fall of 2005 and is now in its fourth edition in 2020. It is now being continued with the digital Book of the Dead donskoje.ffdigitalservices.com/, the development of which was funded by the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship was made possible.
Parallel to the research project and in addition to the publications, a traveling exhibition was developed, which was shown at 24 locations in Germany and Austria from 2006 to 2016.
Impressions of the exhibition and the list of exhibition stations can be found on the project page of Facts & Files. In 2024, the exhibition will be shown at the DDR Museum in the Perleberg Documentation Center will be on display.
The website donskoje.ffdigitalservices.com/ is to be successively expanded in a second project phase with the content of the exhibition and additional functionalities.
Publications
The printed Book of the Dead can be directly from METROPOL-Verlag can be ordered.
Shot in Moscow…
The German Victims of Stalinism at the Donskoye Cemetery in Moscow 1950-1953
Editors: Arsenij Roginskij, Frank Drauschke and Anna Kaminsky
4th ed. Edition
Berlin 2020
Metropol Verlag
ISBN 978-3-938690-14-7
Length: 479 p.
Price: EUR 22.00
Further publications can be found on the project page of Facts & Files.
Project partners
The research project was funded by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship from 2004 to 2008.
The digital Book of the Dead donskoje.ffdigitalservices.com/ was made possible in 2023 by funding from the Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship.
If you have any questions, comments or corrections, please contact the team at Facts & Files.
