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. [...]