On this page you can find all the MEMORISE project prototypes that are evaluated online with the public. It is important to hear your feedback on our prototypes so that we can evaluate and improve them.
Each of our prototypes aim to make the history and Heritage of Nazi Persecution more accessible via digital methods. The prototypes have different target audiences – while many are geared towards the general public, others are, for example, made with researchers or students in mind.
Our beta testing will take place until the 21st of February 2026. We invite you to participate, test, and give your feedback: to help preserve the Heritage of Nazi Persecution for future generations.
Memorise prototypes:
2D Painting Explorer
Target audience: General public, Educators & Students/Learners
Aim: The 2D Painting Explorer (2DPE) is an interactive tool for examining artworks made by former concentration camp prisoners and other victims of Nazi persecution. It allows users to explore paintings in detail by interacting with specific objects, elements, and compositional layers. The tool features three modes: Composition Mode, which reveals and hides layers to show how visual structure shapes meaning; Exploration Mode, which lets users click on selected elements to access contextual information about camp conditions such as those in Bergen-Belsen; and Story Mode, which provides a guided interpretation of the artwork with historical background and highlighted key elements.
Task description: Please explore all three modes, starting with the Exploration Mode, continuing with the Story Mode and finally working with the Composition Mode.
Link to prototype: https://memoriseeu.github.io/2d-painting
Length of testing: 15-30 minutes
Length of questionnaire: 5-10 minutes
Link to questionnaire: https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=N4NQSXPML615
3D Prisoner Artwork Explorer
Target audience: General public, Educators & Students/Learners
Aim: The 3D Prisoner Artwork Explorer is an interactive tool that presents prisoner artworks related to Heritage of Nazi Persecution as immersive 3D environments. It transforms 2D drawings and paintings from Bergen-Belsen and Westerbork into navigable 3D spaces, allowing users to explore the artworks from multiple perspectives. The experience combines art-historical and biographical information with guided camera sequences, text, and audio annotations, and leads users into reflective spaces enriched with diaries, letters, and photographs. Its main aim is to connect visual artworks with written testimonies, and it currently offers four 3D paintings on the MEMORISE website: one by Leo Kok, one by Otto Birman and two by Ervin Abadi.
Task description: Please explore at least two 3D Prisoner Paintings, one from Bergen-Belsen (Ervin Abadi) and one from Westerbork (Leo Kok or Otto Birman)
Link to prototype: https://memorise.sdu.dk/3d-prisoner-paintings/
Length of testing: 10-20 minutes
Length of questionnaire: 5-10 minutes
Link to questionnaire:https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=N4NQSXPML615
Artwork Objects Explorer:
Target audience: Memorial visitors, researchers, general public
Aim: The Artwork Objects Explorer (AOE) is an interactive tool that helps visitors explore personal drawings and paintings made by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps of their experiences. While thousands of such artworks survive today, they have rarely been explored at a larger, systematic level.
The AOE brings together 1,939 artworks from three major collections: the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Joods Cultureel Kwartier (JCK), and the NIOD Beeldbank. Using object detection technology, the tool highlights recurring objects within the artworks and makes patterns across the collection visible. You can explore and analyse the collection through an interactive dashboard that includesfilters based on artwork information, a word cloud showing commonly depicted objects, a map displaying where the artworks originated, and a gallery for browsing selected works.
Task description: Explore the tool by 1) using the filters on the left side, 2) browsing using key terms in the worldcloud and 3) by exploring artworks from the map. Take note of the differences and similarities that these filtered artworks share.
Link to prototype: Memorise – Artwork Explorer (please use user: memorise and password :MEMORISE to access the prototype)
Length of testing: 15-20 minutes
Length of questionnaire: 5-10 minutes
Link to questionnaire: https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=N4NQSXPML615
Ferramonti 3D:
Target audience: Students/learners and general public
Aim: Ferramonti 3D is a virtual reconstruction of the entire former internment camp as it was in the 1940s. Users explore stories of camp life through the pages of a virtual photograph album created by camp inmate and photographer Ernestine Marx. It is a digital twin of an album in the collection of the Memorial Museum at Ferramonti di Tarsia. Touching a photograph takes the user into the 3D reconstruction of the former camp, accompanied by short descriptions of daily life as depicted in the images.
Task description: Explore the different aspects of Camp life either by turning pages of the album or by selecting from a series of theme buttons. Try Free exploration of the 3D reconstruction of the former camp area and the guard area which is now the Memorial museum.
Link to prototype: https://memorise.sdu.dk/Ferramonti3D/
Length of testing: 15-20 minutes
Length of questionnaire: 5-10 minutes
Link to questionnaire: https://www.survey-xact.dk/LinkCollector?key=N4NQSXPML615
