Development of a Digital Memorial Platform for Holocaust Victim Commemoration

The organization faces difficulties in providing an accessible, engaging, and scalable digital platform that allows users globally to memorialize victims of historical events. The existing system lacks modern features for user engagement, accurate geolocation of memorials, and robust infrastructure to support long-term user participation and data management.

A non-profit organization dedicated to educational and memorial initiatives, seeking to enable users worldwide to honor and remember historical victims through an engaging digital platform.

• Create an interactive and appealing digital candle-lighting feature that enables users to honor victims and return to the platform to reaffirm their memorials.
• Implement a map visualization to display user-engaged memorials across the globe, showcasing the platform’s international reach.
• Enable personalized reminders via email to encourage recurring user participation in memorial activities.
• Refactor and upgrade the platform’s codebase to modern frameworks and languages, ensuring maintainability, security, and scalability.
• Implement location-based placement algorithms to evenly distribute memorial markers on the map and prevent overlap.
• Ensure data persistence and user identification through cookies and optional authentication to facilitate ongoing user engagement.

• Digital candle lighting feature with user assignment capabilities for personalized memorials.
• Map visualization displaying geolocated memorials, with algorithms to evenly distribute markers to avoid overlap.
• User engagement mechanisms including cookies and optional sign-in, with stored memorial data.
• Automated email reminders to prompt users to participate in memorial activities before significant dates.
• Codebase refactoring to modern frameworks such as Next.js, integrated with TypeScript for enhanced security and bug detection.
• Analytics and reporting tools to observe user engagement trends over multiple years.

• Email service providers for sending reminder notifications
• Mapping APIs for geolocation and visualization
• User authentication services (if applicable)

• Scalability to support increasing global user base over time
• Responsive design for accessibility across devices
• Secure data handling, including privacy considerations in user data and memorial information
• High availability with minimal downtime to ensure continuous access
• Performance optimization to ensure smooth map interactions and user experience

The development of this digital memorial platform is expected to significantly enhance user engagement and global participation in remembrance activities, leading to increased awareness and education about historical victims. It aims to support sustained memorialization efforts over multiple years, with measurable improvements in user return rates, geographic coverage of memorials, and ongoing digital engagement metrics.