Ingrid Zapiró: from a name to interactive pedagogy of memory The history of Ingrid Zapiró (1931-1942) is not just one of the millions of tragic cases of the Holocaust. It has become the cornerstone of a unique educational project in Germany, demonstrating how a microhistorical approach and digital technologies can transform the abstract memory of the catastrophe into a personal, emotionally charged experience for new generations. The "Ingrid Zapiró" project is a model of "living memory" in which research, commemoration, and pedagogy merge into a single process. 1. Historical context: life and death of Ingrid Ingrid Zapiró was born in Cologne in 1931 in an assimilated Jewish family. After the tightening of Nazi laws, her father, Julius Zapiró, was able to emigrate to Shanghai (one of the few ports open at the time), hoping to later call his family. However, Ingrid's mother, Marta, and the girl herself were deported in June 1942: first to the ghetto in Minsk, and then, on September 18, 1942, to the extermination camp Malen Trestenets under Minsk, where they were killed. This is a typical and at the same time unique fate: typical — for the tragic scenario of family division, deportation, and destruction; unique — for the preserved documentary trace that became the basis for the project. A key role was played by a surviving child's postcard sent by Ingrid to her father in Shanghai — a fragile artifact that fixed the voice of a child on the edge of the abyss. 2. Birth of the project: from "Stumbling Stones" to a digital dossier In the 1990s, students and teachers of the Erasmus van Rotterdam Gymnasium in Cologne, participating in the national movement to install "Stumbling Stones" (Stolpersteine), began to investigate the fates of Jewish children in their district. They came across the story of Ingrid. The stone installed for her became not the final point, but the starting point for a comprehensive investigation. Under the guidance of history teacher Gerhard Schickedanz ... Read more