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Cooperative remembering

This seems right to me:

"The Internet as the new medium of cultural memory offers us never existing forms of creative and participative remembering, which can be practiced independently of time and place. It allows people all around the world to cooperate with each other."

It’s from a virtual reconstruction of building plans and other records: 

"…to remember more than 2200 synagogues that were closed, desecrated or destroyed in Germany and Austria during the Nazi regime."

Worth a visit. Via this article which I stumbled over looking for something else. Sunday, as it happens, is Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel.