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Logo Design Competition Announced for International ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration’ Event
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Logo Design Competition Announced for International ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration’ Event

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Logo Design Competition Announced for International ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration’ Event

By Victoria Grace Walden|15 January 2025|Tags: Design, Design Competition, Designer, expo, LDML_25, Logo, Logo Design|

2024: A Year in Review
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2024: A Year in Review

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2024: A Year in Review

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 January 2025|Tags: 2024, AJR, Alfred Landecker Foundation, annual review, Hard Launch, IHRA, Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Museo del Holocausto, Publications, Review, statistics, Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, the European Commission, UNESCO|

TikTok and Holocaust Memory: Where Commemoration and Algorithmic Culture Collide
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TikTok and Holocaust Memory: Where Commemoration and Algorithmic Culture Collide

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TikTok and Holocaust Memory: Where Commemoration and Algorithmic Culture Collide

By Victoria Grace Walden|12 December 2024|Tags: #WeRemember, Barad, Claims Conference, entanglement, How To: Never Forget, Montana Tucker, Socio-technical, Tiktok, UNESCO, World Jewish Congress|

10 key implications for AI in Holocaust memory and education
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10 key implications for AI in Holocaust memory and education

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10 key implications for AI in Holocaust memory and education

By Victoria Grace Walden|5 December 2024|Tags: AI, AI Model, ChatGPT, IHRA, machine learning, Midjourney, NVIDIA|

How a Dislike of ‘Goodbyes’ Inspired Our Digital Holocaust Memory Programme
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How a Dislike of ‘Goodbyes’ Inspired Our Digital Holocaust Memory Programme

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How a Dislike of ‘Goodbyes’ Inspired Our Digital Holocaust Memory Programme

By Victoria Grace Walden|28 November 2024|Tags: Alfred Landecker Foundation, Anne Frank House, Arolsen Archives, Auschwitz Jewish Centre, Bergen-Belsen Memorial, blog post, Dachau Memorial, Falstadsentret, JoodsMonument, Mauthausen, Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Neuengamme Memorial, Terraforming, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USC Shoah Foundation, Westerbork|

Building the Lab – Part 3: Our Official Launch
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Building the Lab – Part 3: Our Official Launch

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Building the Lab – Part 3: Our Official Launch

By Victoria Grace Walden|22 November 2024|Tags: Alfred Landecker Foundation, consultancy, Cornel Sandvoss, design sprints, Digital Holocaust memory, Digital Memory Dialogues, existential crisis, expos, Imperial War Museum, launch, Lena Altman, living database archive, Lord Khan, Lord Pickles, memory lab, Michael Luck, policy, research, sustainability crisis, training, University of Sussex|

Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View
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Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View

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Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View

By Victoria Grace Walden|14 November 2024|Tags: Alex Sessa, Anne Frank House, Auschwitz Jewish Centre, Bergen-Belsen, ethics, index, living database archive, Melbourne Holocaust Museum, USC Shoah Foundation, Zanis Lipke Memorial|

AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education
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AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education

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AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education

By Victoria Grace Walden|7 November 2024|Tags: AI, ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, policymakers, Romania, UK, US|

Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial
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Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial

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Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial

By Victoria Grace Walden|30 October 2024|Tags: Anne Frank, Empathy mapping, impact analysis, Latvia, Lipke Memorial, virtual reality, VR|

Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development
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Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development

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Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development

By Victoria Grace Walden|23 October 2024|Tags: AI, Anne Frank, augmented reality, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, blockchain, Charles Games, computer games, Falstad, Grodska Gate, Illinois, Light in the Darkness, Lipke Memorial, machine learning, Mauthausen, Melbourne, Neuengamme, open data, open source, social media, The USHMM, theory, Tiktok, UNESCO, USC Shoah Foundation, virtual reality, Westerbork, WJC|

‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory
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‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory

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‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|16 October 2024|Tags: Estonia, exhibitions, ICEE, ICOM, Impact, museum professionals, public engagement, workshop|

Spotlight on Melbourne Holocaust Museum
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Spotlight on Melbourne Holocaust Museum

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Spotlight on Melbourne Holocaust Museum

By Victoria Grace Walden|26 September 2024|Tags: Melbourne, survivors, virtual museum, virtual reality, VR, YouTube|

Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 2: Defining Our Values
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Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 2: Defining Our Values

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Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 2: Defining Our Values

By Victoria Grace Walden|23 September 2024|Tags: Lab, strategy, values, vision|

Beyond the Single Story, Part 2
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Beyond the Single Story, Part 2

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Beyond the Single Story, Part 2

By Victoria Grace Walden|18 September 2024|Tags: computer games, Darkest of Times, ethics, IJRA, play, undergraduate|

AI and the Future of Holocaust Memory
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AI and the Future of Holocaust Memory

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AI and the Future of Holocaust Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|11 September 2024|Tags: AI, Algorithms, ethics, interdisciplinarity, machine learning, Maryna, Mykola, recommendations, UNESCO|

Addressing Our Research Recommendations: Funding Bids and Policy Guidelines
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Addressing Our Research Recommendations: Funding Bids and Policy Guidelines

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Addressing Our Research Recommendations: Funding Bids and Policy Guidelines

By Victoria Grace Walden|5 September 2024|Tags: AI, AJR, Claims Conference, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, EHRI, European Commission, funding, future studies, IHRA, Impact, infrastructure, Landecker Foundation, machine learning, public engagement, recommendations, the United Nations, UN, UNESCO, virtual museum, workshop|

Listening in Latin America: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador
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Listening in Latin America: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador

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Listening in Latin America: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador

By Kate Marrison|22 August 2024|Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Casa Museo Trude Sojka, dimensions in testimony, Ecuardor, Instagram, Latin American Network for Education on the Shoah, Memory Studies Association, Museo del Holocausto Buenos Aires, Museu do Holocausto de Curitiba, NEPAT, Peru, recommendations, social media, Tiktok, USC Shoah Foundation, X, YouTube|

Centralising the Human in Digital Humanities Methods
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Centralising the Human in Digital Humanities Methods

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Centralising the Human in Digital Humanities Methods

By Victoria Grace Walden|16 August 2024|Tags: Didi-Huberman, Digital humanities, fieldwork, interviews, research method|

Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 1
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Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 1

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Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 1

By Mel Poluck|8 August 2024|Tags: building the lab, Digital Memory Dialogues, expo, funding, Latin America, living-database, Melbourne Holocaust Museum, policy, team, the IHRA|

Holocaust Education and Social Media: What Young People Really Think
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Holocaust Education and Social Media: What Young People Really Think

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Holocaust Education and Social Media: What Young People Really Think

By Kate Marrison|1 August 2024|Tags: Claims Conference, digital, Digital Holocaust memory, digital memory, HET, Holocaust, Holocaust education, Instagram, Montana Tucker, Snapchat, social media, Tiktok|

Beyond the Single Story: How Computer Games can Transform Holocaust Education
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Beyond the Single Story: How Computer Games can Transform Holocaust Education

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Beyond the Single Story: How Computer Games can Transform Holocaust Education

By Victoria Grace Walden|25 July 2024|Tags: AI, computer games, gaming, International Junior Research Associates, serious games, University of Chicago, video games|

Shaping the Future Use of VR, AR and Computer Games in Holocaust Memory
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Shaping the Future Use of VR, AR and Computer Games in Holocaust Memory

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Shaping the Future Use of VR, AR and Computer Games in Holocaust Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|11 July 2024|Tags: AR, computer games, gaming, serious games, VR|

Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?
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Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?

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Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds?

By Victoria Grace Walden|24 March 2022|Tags: commemoration, Dachau, duet, Education, Flossenburg, green screen, Mauthausen, Multimodality, Neuengamme, site visits, stitch, testimony, Tiktok|

Why (not) so serious? Anne Frank memes and digital Holocaust memory
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Why (not) so serious? Anne Frank memes and digital Holocaust memory

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Why (not) so serious? Anne Frank memes and digital Holocaust memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 October 2021|Tags: memes, participatory culture, search engines, user-generated content|

The Holocaust and Social Media
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The Holocaust and Social Media

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The Holocaust and Social Media

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 September 2021|Tags: Baidu, digital heritage, DuckDuckGo, Facebook, Google, Holocaust memory, museums, search engines, social media, trauma|

The Alt-Right, and Holocaust Denial and Distortion Online
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The Alt-Right, and Holocaust Denial and Distortion Online

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The Alt-Right, and Holocaust Denial and Distortion Online

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 September 2021|Tags: alt-right, altright, antisemitism, Claims Conference, denial, distortion, gaming cultures, HOPE not hate, masculinities|

Virtual Holocaust Memorialisation
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Virtual Holocaust Memorialisation

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Virtual Holocaust Memorialisation

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 September 2021|Tags: 360, Amsterdam, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Huis, Bergen-Belsen, digital heritage, digital pedagogies, Falstad, immersive technologies, IWalks, Nuengamme, Nuremberg Trials, The Last Goodbye, USC Shoah Foundation, virtual reality, VR|

Playing the Holocaust – Part II
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Playing the Holocaust – Part II

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Playing the Holocaust – Part II

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 September 2021|Tags: Games Jam, Gathering the Voices, history games, serious games, The Darkest of Times, the Ghetto Fighters' Museum, video games|

The Future of Holocaust Memory – Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
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The Future of Holocaust Memory – Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

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The Future of Holocaust Memory – Holocaust Memorial Day 2021

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 September 2021|Tags: commemoration, digital memory, HMD, Holocaust museums, Imperial War Museums, Neuengamme, The USHMM|

Interactivity in Holocaust Memory
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Interactivity in Holocaust Memory

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Interactivity in Holocaust Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|10 June 2021|Tags: #EveryNameCounts, Arolsen Archives, Attendant 1942, Auschwitz Jewish Centre, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Bared, computer games, Interactive biographies, interactivity, intra-action, JoodsMonument, Journey app, Kristallnacht Second Life, National Holocaust Centre and Museum, Oshpitzin, Twitter, USC Shoah Foundation, USHMM|

Comparing Online Commemoration Events
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Comparing Online Commemoration Events

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Comparing Online Commemoration Events

By Victoria Grace Walden|18 February 2021|Tags: Bergen-Belsen, commemoration, commemoration online, digital commemoration, Yom HaShoah|

Holocaust Remembrance in a Digital Future: Towards Deep Truth or Deep Fake?
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Holocaust Remembrance in a Digital Future: Towards Deep Truth or Deep Fake?

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Holocaust Remembrance in a Digital Future: Towards Deep Truth or Deep Fake?

By Victoria Grace Walden|12 February 2021|Tags: AI, deep fakes, ethics, mapping, testimony, VR|

Algorithmic Auditing, the Holocaust, and Search Engine Bias
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Algorithmic Auditing, the Holocaust, and Search Engine Bias

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Algorithmic Auditing, the Holocaust, and Search Engine Bias

By Victoria Grace Walden|4 February 2021|Tags: Algorithms, Auschwitz, Baidu, bias, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Information retrieval, Liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, search engines, Yahoo, Yandex|

Capturing Experiential Authenticity at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
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Capturing Experiential Authenticity at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

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Capturing Experiential Authenticity at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

By Victoria Grace Walden|27 January 2021|Tags: Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, AuschwitzMuseum, authenticity, Holocaust tourism, social media|

Student Competition: Thinking about Computer Games and the Holocaust
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Student Competition: Thinking about Computer Games and the Holocaust

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Student Competition: Thinking about Computer Games and the Holocaust

By Victoria Grace Walden|22 January 2021|Tags: computer games, Hebrew University, students|

Online Holocaust Denial and Distortion
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Online Holocaust Denial and Distortion

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Online Holocaust Denial and Distortion

By Victoria Grace Walden|7 January 2021|Tags: 4Chan, 8kun, denial, distortion, Facebook, Instagram, platform capitalism, Twitter, Web 2.0, YouTube|

From Intermediality to Entanglement: New Methods for Studying Digital Holocaust Memory
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From Intermediality to Entanglement: New Methods for Studying Digital Holocaust Memory

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From Intermediality to Entanglement: New Methods for Studying Digital Holocaust Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|3 December 2020|Tags: computational, entanglement, interface, mixed reality, representation, unrepresentable|

Playing the Holocaust – Part 1
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Playing the Holocaust – Part 1

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Playing the Holocaust – Part 1

By Victoria Grace Walden|24 November 2020|Tags: computer games, digital memory, Holocaust|

Reading Call of Duty: WWII as Digital Holocaust Memory
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Reading Call of Duty: WWII as Digital Holocaust Memory

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Reading Call of Duty: WWII as Digital Holocaust Memory

By Victoria Grace Walden|19 November 2020|Tags: Call of Duty, computer games, digital memory, historical games|

Finding Virtuality in Virtual Holocaust Museums
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Finding Virtuality in Virtual Holocaust Museums

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Finding Virtuality in Virtual Holocaust Museums

Digital Holocaust Archives – Online Discussion
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Digital Holocaust Archives – Online Discussion

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Digital Holocaust Archives – Online Discussion

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 October 2020|Tags: #EveryNameCounts, archives, Arolsen Archives, Channel Islands, digital archives, EHRI, Frank Falla, Participatory practices, Terraforming, Wiener Library, Wolfgang Ernst|

Holocaust Commemoration: Between Digital and Physical Spaces – An Online Discussion
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Holocaust Commemoration: Between Digital and Physical Spaces – An Online Discussion

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Holocaust Commemoration: Between Digital and Physical Spaces – An Online Discussion

By Victoria Grace Walden|24 September 2020|Tags: 75befreiung, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, commemoration, commemoration onilne, digital commemoration, liberation75, Neuengamme, online discussion, webinar|

Playing Memories? Digital Games as Memory Media
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Playing Memories? Digital Games as Memory Media

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Playing Memories? Digital Games as Memory Media

By Victoria Grace Walden|17 September 2020|Tags: Assmann, Attentat 1942, Auschwitz-Birkenau, avatar, Call of Duty, Charles Games, computer games, Darkest of Days, Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Erll, Jenkins, Juul, Kansteiner, Klevjer, Landsberg, media memory, Memory of Us, Paintbucket Games, prosthetic memory, serious games, The Darkest of Times, virtual tours, witnessing, witnessing and play, Wolfenstein|

TikTok #HolocaustChallenge
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TikTok #HolocaustChallenge

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TikTok #HolocaustChallenge

By Victoria Grace Walden|10 September 2020|Tags: #Holocaustchallenge, appropriateness of representation, film, Lego, networked Holocaust memory, social media, Tiktok, trivilisation, user-generated content, viral Holocaust memory, YouTube|

How can we archive online commemorations?
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How can we archive online commemorations?

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How can we archive online commemorations?

By Victoria Grace Walden|1 September 2020|Tags: commemoration online, digital archiving, digital commemoration, Liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, VE Day|

“I’m a Holocaust survivor and…” : reflections on the USHMM ‘Next Chapter’ video series
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“I’m a Holocaust survivor and…” : reflections on the USHMM ‘Next Chapter’ video series

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“I’m a Holocaust survivor and…” : reflections on the USHMM ‘Next Chapter’ video series

By Victoria Grace Walden|30 July 2020|Tags: digital memory, Edutainment, empathy, Facebook, Holocaust memory, Holocaust stories, Holocaust survivor, identity, Instagram, Next Chapter USHMM, postwar lives, Twitter, USHMM, YouTube|

Digital Holocaust Memory – Online Discussion
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Digital Holocaust Memory – Online Discussion

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Digital Holocaust Memory – Online Discussion

By Victoria Grace Walden|24 July 2020|Tags: archaeology, archives, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, commemoration, computer games, Covid-19, immersion, interactivity, social media, virtuality, vlogging|

Anne Frank Virtual Tour of Bergen-Belsen
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Anne Frank Virtual Tour of Bergen-Belsen

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Anne Frank Virtual Tour of Bergen-Belsen

By Victoria Grace Walden|24 June 2020|

Statues, Memory and the Digital
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Statues, Memory and the Digital

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Statues, Memory and the Digital

By Victoria Grace Walden|12 June 2020|Tags: #blacklivesmatters, #RhodesMustFall, Colston, countermonuments, decolonise museums, hashtags, hyperconnective memory, Multidirectional memory, network, Statues|

Holocaust Memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic An Online Roundtable
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Holocaust Memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic An Online Roundtable

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Holocaust Memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic An Online Roundtable

By Victoria Grace Walden|27 May 2020|Tags: Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre, commemoration, Covid-19, digital futures, Holocaust memory, Jewish Holocaust Centre, museums, National Holocaust Centre and Museum, physicality, site, survivors, USC Shoah Foundation, webinar, Yom HaShoah|

Hunters – Amazon’s fictional Jewish Nazi-hunters
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Hunters – Amazon’s fictional Jewish Nazi-hunters

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Hunters – Amazon’s fictional Jewish Nazi-hunters

By Victoria Grace Walden|12 May 2020|Tags: Hunters, online streaming, postmemory|

VE Day: Websites/ Physical Sites: 75 Years since the End of World War II
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VE Day: Websites/ Physical Sites: 75 Years since the End of World War II

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VE Day: Websites/ Physical Sites: 75 Years since the End of World War II

By Victoria Grace Walden|8 May 2020|Tags: coming together, commemoration, connective turn, digital memory, materiality, performance, site, VE Day|

Implications of Physical Distancing for Commemoration
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Implications of Physical Distancing for Commemoration

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Implications of Physical Distancing for Commemoration

By Victoria Grace Walden|4 May 2020|Tags: broadcast media, Foundation stones, materiality, participation, synchronicity, Yom HaShoah|

Debunking Digital Myths
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Debunking Digital Myths

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Debunking Digital Myths

By Victoria Grace Walden|1 May 2020|Tags: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, immersion, interactivity, USC Shoah Foundation, virtuality|

75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

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75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

By Victoria Grace Walden|19 April 2020|Tags: belsen, virtual memorial|

What’s in a Name? An Unexpected Researchable Moment
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What’s in a Name? An Unexpected Researchable Moment

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What’s in a Name? An Unexpected Researchable Moment

By Victoria Grace Walden|9 April 2020|