The project Die Verleugneten is dedicated to commemorating the persecution of people who were stigmatized as “asocials” or “habitual criminals” under National Socialism. This group of women, men, and young people endured immense suffering and was only recognized late as victims of the Nazi regime. Imprisoned in concentration camps, confined in homes and psychiatric institutions, and often forcibly sterilized, they were forgotten even after the war and excluded from compensation payments. It was only decades later, thanks to the efforts of committed researchers and initiatives such as that of Professor Dr. Frank Nonnenmacher, that their fate began to be acknowledged. In 2020, the German Bundestag officially recognized these persecuted individuals as victims of National Socialism.
The website and traveling exhibition Die Verleugneten are the result of these efforts and part of a Bundestag resolution to strengthen remembrance of this victim group. Launched in August 2022, the website documents the development of the traveling exhibition in the form of an online project workshop. It offers a behind-the-scenes look and makes the history of this persecution accessible to the public even before the exhibition opens. New content is added regularly, including biographies, interactive depictions of persecution paths, and a chronology of the decades-long struggle for recognition. The traveling exhibition will open in Berlin in the summer of 2024 and will subsequently be shown at the Flossenbürg concentration camp memorial and other locations in Germany and Austria.
In my role as Art Director at the agency W21K, I developed the website concept, web design, logo, and branding.
