The article follows the traces of a memorial plaque installed in May 2023, which publicly names Arthur Jubelt, who died in the Buchenwald special camp in 1947, as a victim of Stalinist repression in East Germany. The memorial plaque is part of an international, post-socialist memorial initiative Last Address, which began in Moscow in 2014. The ar¬ticle attempts to analyse the social initiative within the German culture of remembrance and shows why the adaptation of a memorial project originating in Russia is not without conflict. By examining the history of coming to terms with Stalinist repression in the par¬ticular case of the GDR and the current landscape of remembrance in Germany, the article sheds light on the divergent interpretations and politicisations of this commemoration.
