This week’s blog from guest contributor Lauren Cantillon asks how do the videos broaden our ideas of the ‘Holocaust survivor’ figure, while also offering a vision for creating a connective digital Holocaust memory?
On Wednesday 15th July 2020, we invited a series of academics who work on digital Holocaust memory in different ways to discuss their research. You can see each of their presentations below: Imogen Dalziel is in the final stages of her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, investigating how the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has adapted to the digital museum. Under normal circumstances, she is also part-time Administrator for the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway; a freelance Educator for the Holocaust Educational Trust; and a volunteer for the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Over the last academic year, Imogen has also co-taught undergraduate modules on the history of the Holocaust at The University of Birmingham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0eamOxfcsQ Professor Caroline Sturdy Colls is a Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation and Director of the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University. Her research in digital Holocaust memory centres on the role of non-invasive survey techniques in the location, documentation and visualization of Holocaust landscapes. As a field archaeologist, she has completed the first archaeological surveys and 3D visualisations of the former extermination and labour camps in Treblinka (Poland), the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel [...]
A critical walkthrough of an Anne Frank-themed tour of the Bergen-Belsen memorial site.
Reflections on Holocaust countermonuments, #RhodesMustFall and the potential of hyperconnective memory as resistance to the fixity of statues.
If you missed Digital Holocaust Memory's first webinar on 'Holocaust memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic' you can catchup on it here.
60 years after Mossad agents captured Adolph Eichmann and took him to Israel to stand trial, I look at the controversy about Amazon's new series 'Hunters'.
What might we learn from this year's online-only commemorations in terms of how we might modify or augment future events with technology?
Following my previous blog which interrogated the significance of interactivity, virtuality and immersion to digital Holocaust memory, today, I explore another term that is often used to describe the digital - immateriality - and think about it in relation to recent commemorative events during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which of course could only take place online.
Last night, I was very honoured to present some initial ideas related to my research about digital Holocaust memory for The Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre. In today's blog, I thought I would summarise some of my main arguments.
75 Years Later: Digitally Commemorating the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen This week - 15th April - was the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Yet, unlike previous commemorations, the date was marked with online-only rather than physical events at the site. A few years ago, when I was writing my last book Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory, I went on a research trip to the Gedenkstaette Bergen-Belsen to explore their Here: Space of Memory project, a collaboration with the SPECS Research Group in Barcelona. The audio-visual installation stood in a box at the Anne-Frank-Platz in the Memorial's ground from October 28th 2012 until February 2014. A short trailer by SPECs shows the original installation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JydZqXOI8&w=560&h=315 The installation's content continues to exist in an augmented-reality (AR) app on i-pads, which visitors can hire at the site. AR technology blends virtual reality (VR) content with images of the lived-world environment. This is particularly effective at Bergen-Belsen because the typhoid outbreak in 1945 meant that the camp's structures had to be destroyed. There are few physical remains of the site - unlike Auschwitz I and other well-visited concentration camp memorials. Photograph of Victoria Grace-Walden engaging with the Here: Spaces of Memory Project on site. [...]
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