MEMORISE at the 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History By Esther Rachow The University of Luxembourg is home to the world-renowned Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), and the ideal setting for the 7th World Conference of the International Federation […]
Depictions of the Concentration Camps from Within By Noga Stiassny Barracks, a camp’s kitchen, piles of corpses, trees, SS officers, morning roll call, a bowl of soup, or the liberators – prisoners’ artworks provide a direct engagement with the everyday realities of survival and loss within […]
Diversity & Inclusion in the Development and Design of Digital Projects As the number of survivors and witnesses to Nazi persecution continues to decline, digital media is becoming an increasingly pivotal actor in shaping how we engage with the complex heritage of the Holocaust and Nazi […]
Diversity and Inclusion in the Development and Design of Digital Projects By Esther Rachow On an early-spring morning in late February, the MEMORISE teams of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial (Stephanie Billib and Charlotte Trottier) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Esther Rachow and Noga Stiassny) […]
By Aliisa Råmark Last week, our MEMORISE consortium, inspired by Chris Hall’s initiative, gathered at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial for an intensive series of collaborative workshops. The primary goal? To strengthen our collective efforts across various projects: user studies, comparative readers, development of current state models, and […]
This month, we hosted our first technical workshop on accessing and processing data as well as deploying apps in the historical city of Prague. It was an invaluable opportunity for the technical staff of our partners to come together for some hands-on sessions and in-depth discussions. […]
April 14, 2024 Our last day in Tarsia and Calabria started with taking photos of the hotel by drone followed by exploring the caves in the hillside on the way from Tarsia to Ferramonti, Simona told us later that these hand carved caves are very old. […]
April 13, 2024 On our third day at Tarsia we started the day with breakfast at the lovely hotel sharing ideas and what we all would be doing during the day, since we have collected a lot of data and now are connecting the pieces. The […]
April 12, 2024 Day 2 of creating a virtual piece of world history. Yesterday’s task was flying the drone across Camp Ferramonti and photographing the entire campsite. The guard area is well-preserved and will make for an authentic model that anyone will soon be able to […]
April 11, 2024 Nestled in a beautiful green valley, surrounded by dramatic mountains, our journey into the past began with an exploration of Camp Ferramonti and the stories within it, waiting to be shared by us. On arrival we were greeted by Sarah, a dedicated volunteer, […]
After participating the VISIGRAPP 2024 conference in Rome in the beginning of March, I took the opportunity to travel to the Museo Internazionale della Memoria di Ferramonti di Tarsia, a concentration camp memorial located in the south of Italy, which is an associated partner in the […]
Rethinking MEMORISE from the educator’s point of view Spring at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial. A group of educators from the Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork is currently visiting to learn about the former camp’s history and approaches to encounter the historical site. I joined them one day to talk […]
Report from the Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School Memories are not static. Rather, they are entangled in many ways. The fourth Vienna-Jerusalem Graduate School that took place at the beginning of March 2024 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem focused on such networks and layers of history. Every […]
The MEMORISE project is conducting a survey to learn more about what future users expect from digital applications for engaging with the history of Nazi persecution. User participation and user feedback are central to research and development as practized in the MEMORISE project. The results of […]
In November 2023 the Memorise group had its annual consortium meeting. This time, it was in Amsterdam, which was quite the experience, especially for me and the newest members, because it was an opportunity to meet everybody involved in the project for the first time in […]
Everyday life as a Ph.D. student within the Memorise project involves a multitude of tasks, both directly and indirectly linked to the project’s objectives. A significant portion of my time is surprisingly dedicated to acquiring diverse skills essential for delivering the expected output. Notably, programming skills […]
“The people here in Amsterdam haven’t experienced anything yet, which is most noticeable when the air raid alarm goes off, because they walk on as calm as can be or look at the English planes, drawing such nice little lines in the sky,” writes thirteen-year-old Henk […]
From October 2017 to January 2018, a Virtual Reconstruction of Camp Westerbork was on display in the Memorial Centre Camp Westerbork. In one of the museum’s exhibition rooms, the public could wander through the virtual Westerbork of the autumn of 1943 via a tablet and a […]
”It is more important than ever that we remember the holocaust took place… holocaust survivors are getting older, and in about ten years or so, we won‘t be able to talk about it anymore. We want to leave a legacy.“ Inspired by this quote of our […]
While the academic realm can provide vast knowledge about many subjects, certain topics, such as the Holocaust, demand a more hands-on exploration that goes beyond books and articles. The sheer magnitude and gravity of this dark chapter in history make it crucial that it is explored […]
As a Danish public institution, the Odense main campus of the University of Southern Denmark transforms into an abandoned place in July, like a deserted Wild West town with tumbleweeds rolling across the landscape. Therefore, it was convenient for me to do some dissemination activities for […]
After Richard Khulusi spent a long time analyzing and visualizing a dozen of diaries written in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp [1], MSc data science student Danielle Roed Tagaki chose to work with the same diary corpus in her visualization course and later in her Master’s project. […]
How can we best preserve and access the tangible and intangible heritage of Nazi persecution by digital and virtual means? The guiding question of the MEMORISE project was the starting point for a joint online workshop, held on May 23, 2023. International experts and practitioners from […]
The Bernburg Euthanasia Institution was at the center of the National Socialist euthanasia program Aktion T4, a systematic mass murder of people who were considered physically, mentally or emotionally handicapped. Between November 1940 and August 1941, around ten thousand people were killed at the facility. Last […]
With great responsibility, the MEMORISE Consortium met on October 24 and 25 to present the project plan to the interested public and to discuss initial tasks to get MEMORISE off the ground. October 24: After an internal meeting to discuss plans for the work packages, the […]
