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The following is a selection of important websites or similar projects on the theme.

• Digital Contemporary Witness Archives on National Socialism
• Other Digital Interview Archives
• National Socialism and Forced Labor
• Local Projects on Nazi Forced Labor
• Research Tools for Biographical Tracing
• Tracing Services
• Memorial Sites
• Digitizing and Media Management
• Interview Projects of the Subsets of the Collection in the Archive

 

Digital Contemporary Witness Archives on National Socialism (partly online)

• Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation Institute of the University of Southern California (USC) at the Freie Universität Berlin:
  http://www.vha.fu-berlin.de
• Die Frauen von Ravensbrück. Das Videoarchiv (Women of Ravensbrueck. The video archive)
  http://videoarchiv-ravensbrueck.de
• Zeitzeugengeschichte (Contemporary Witness History). Web portal for testimonials on the Nazi regime that have been produced by young people and knowledge multipliers, with a manual on conducting interviews and possibility to upload interviews:
  http://www.zeitzeugengeschichte.de
• Voices of the Holocaust – The testimonies recorded by David P. Boder:
  http://voices.iit.edu/
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University:
  http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/homepage.html
• “Living with the Memory. Survivors of the Holocaust tell their Stories” video archive with interviews from the Fortunoff Archive presented by the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe:
  http://www.stiftung-denkmal.de/projekte/interviews/
• Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive of the University of Michigan:
  http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/
• Collection of interviews with Parisian survivors by the Mémorial de la Shoah:
  http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/b_content/getContentFromNumLinkAction.do?itemId=657&type=1
• Interview collection "Mémoires de la Shoah" of the French Film Institute, Institut national de l'audiovisuel and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah:
  http://www.ina.fr/edu/entretiens/shoah/index.fr.html#
• European Resistance Archive
  http://www.resistance-archive.org
• Video interviews with Italian military internees by "Schiavi di Hitler. Museo virtuale della deportazione":
  http://www.schiavidihitler.it/Pagine_video/Interviste.htm
• Audio interviews with internees and deportees from Sicily
  http://www.imiedeportati.eu
• Erlebte Geschichte (Experienced History) – Video archive with life stories based in Cologne, focusing on the period between 1933 and 1945:
  http://www.eg.nsdok.de
• Oral History collection of the Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte (Center for Contemporary History Research), Hamburg:
  http://www.werkstatt-der-erinnerung.de
• Archive "Deutsches Gedächtnis" (German Memory), FernUniversität Hagen, University of Hagen:
  http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/geschichteundbiographie/deutschesgedaechtnis
• Getuigen: Written and visual testimonies of Belgian victims of National Socialism:
  http://www.getuigen.be
• CEGESOMA: Audio-visual archive of the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society, Belgium:
  http://www.cegesoma.be
• "L'Histoire c'est moi". 555 Versions of Swiss History 1939-1945:
  http://www.archimob.ch
• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center
  http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/resourcecenter
• Open Society Archive Budapest
  http://www.osaarchivum.org
• Memory of Nation
  http://www.memoryofnation.eu
• USHMM Steven Spielberg Film & Video Archive
  http://resources.ushmm.org/film
• "Zeitzeugen berichten". Cross-epochal interview collection of Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte
  http://www.hdbg.eu/zeitzeugen/treffer.php?t=2&q=zwangsarbeit
• Ravensbrück – Überlebende erzählen
  http://www.bpb.de/themen/SHJ187,0,0,Ravensbr%FCck_%96_%DCberlebende_erz%E4hlen.html

 

Other Digital Interview Archives

• Migration audio archive: Collection of audio accounts of the life stories of migrants:
  http://www.migration-audio-archiv.de
• "Angekommen ..." (Arrived): Collection of witness testimonials at the Landeszentrums für Zuwanderung (Center for Immigration) NRW about "La regione della Ruhr. Migrantengeschichten aus dem Bergbau" (Migrant Stories of Mining) and “Bahnhof Köln-Deutz. Migrantengeschichten aus 40 Jahren“ (The Railway Station Cologne-Deutz. 40 Years of Migration – Migrants Tell their Stories):
  http://www.angekommen.com
• Archive of the Italian film institute, Istituto Luce:
  http://www.archivioluce.com
• Centre for Popular Memory of the University of Cape Town, South Africa:
  http://www.popularmemory.org.za
• Overview of the oral history educational materials available on the web:
  http://lehrer-online.de/oral-history-im-internet.php

 

National Socialism and Forced Labor

• Bürger-Engagement für ehemalige Zwangsarbeiter und andere NS-Opfer in Osteuropa (citizens committed to former forced laborers and other victims of National Socialism in Eastern Europe):
  http://www.buerger-engagement-fuer-ns-zwangsarbeiter.de
• Internationale Wanderausstellung "Zwangsarbeit. Die Deutschen, die Zwangsarbeiter und der Krieg" (International Traveling Exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers and the War") http://ausstellung-zwangsarbeit.de/index.php?L=1
• Stiftung "Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft" (Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future")
  http://www.stiftung-evz.de/eng/forced-labour
• Learning from History – The Nazi Era and the Holocaust in German Education:
  http://www.lernen-aus-der-geschichte.de
• Bundesarchiv: Project "Zwangsarbeit im NS-Staat" (Forced Labor in Nazi Germany):
  http://www.zwangsarbeit.eu/
• Cinematography of the Holocaust, Research Project and Database:
  http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de/cine/cine_d.htm
• Erinnern für Gegenwart und Zukunft – Das Toleranz-Bildungs-Portal der Shoah Foundation und des Cornelsen-Verlags (Remembering for the Present and the Future – Tolerance Education Portal of the Shoah Foundation and Cornelsen Publishers):
  http://www.erinnern-online.de
• German Historical Museum, Living Virtual Museum Online (LeMO)
  http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/wk2
• Freitagsbriefe (Friday Letters) – Collection of the letters of former Soviet prisoners of war by Kontakte e.V.:
  http://www.kontakte-kontakty.de/deutsch/ns-opfer/freitagsbriefe
• Forced Labor in the Church:
  http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-der-kirche.de
• "erinnern.at" – Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust: Gedächtnis und Gegenwart (National Socialism and the Holocaust: Memory and the Present):
  http://www.erinnern.at
• "Mit Stempel und Unterschrift" - Documents on Nazi Forced Labor - A Digital Workshop for Interpreting Historical Sources
  http://www.mit-stempel-und-unterschrift.de
• Chronicle of the Ghetto Lodz/Litzmannstadt
  http://www.getto-chronik.de

 

Local Projects on Nazi Forced Labor

• Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide (Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center)
  http://www.dz-ns-zwangsarbeit.de
• DVD "Ausgebeutet für die Volksgemeinschaft?" about forced labor in Münsterland:
  http://www.lwl.org/pressemitteilungen/mitteilung.php?urlID=13912
• Exhibition of the Historical Center, Hagen:
  http://www.nrw-zwangsarbeit.de/
• School project in Gersthofen (near Augsburg):
  http://www.zwangsarbeit-gersthofen.de
• Forced labor in Berlin- Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg 1938 – 1945:
  http://www.kreuzbergmuseum.de/mu_unter/zwangsarbeit
• Förderverein für ein Dokumentations- und Begegnungszentrum zur NS-Zwangsarbeit in Berlin- (association for a Nazi forced labor documentation and meeting center in Berlin-Schöneweide):
  http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-berlin.de
• Project "NS-Zwangsarbeit" (Nazi Forced Labor) of the Berlin History Workshop:
  http://www.berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de/zwangsarbeit
• Research group "Zwangsarbeit in Schleswig-Holstein" (Forced labor in Schleswig-Holstein (FGZSH)“:
  http://www.zwangsarbeiter-s-h.de
• Initiative für Entschädigung von Zwangsarbeit in Augsburg (Initiative for the Compensation of Forced Labor, Augsburg):
  http://www.zwangsarbeit-augsburg.de
• Project on “work education camps” in Fehrbellin:
  http://www.jugendgeschichtswerkstatt.de/fehrbellin/frames.html
• Bernhild Vögel’s website about child forced laborers:
  http://www.krieggegenkinder.de/
• Stimmen aus Ravensbrück. Gedichte und Kunstwerke von Häftlingen des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück (Voices from Ravensbrück. Poetry and Artwork by Prisoners of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women):
  http://www.pat-binder.de/ravensbrueck
• Nazi Forced Labor. Documentation Center in Berlin-Schöneweide:
  http://www.topographie.de/dz-ns-zwangsarbeit
• Historical Center, Hagen:
  http://www1.historisches-centrum.de/zwangsarbeit
• Göttingen Municipal Archive project Nazi forced laborers:
  http://zwangsarbeit-in-goettingen.de
• Information on KZ Natzweiler-Struthof
  http://www.natzweiler-struthof.com
• Forced Labor for Flick at Maxhütte-Haidhof (Upper Palatinate/Bavaria)
  http://www.projektgruppe-zwangsarbeit.de
• History workshops Göttingen and Duderstadt: "Tracing European Forced Labor"
  http://www.zwangsarbeit-in-niedersachsen.eu
• School project on Polish Forced Laborers in Triberg/Black Forest
  http://www.zwangsarbeiter-im-schwarzwald.eu
• Geschichtswerkstatt Europa: European memory projects
  http://www.geschichtswerkstatt-europa.org

 

Research Tools for Biographical Tracing

• Germany - A Memorial - A Research Task, 1996 to ... A Room of the "Architecture of Memory" – A research project on the National Socialist concentration camps and sites of detention and mass murder from 1933 – 1945:
  http://www.keom.de/ (temporarily offline, being revised)
• ShtetlSeeker - Town Search:
  http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp
• List of prisoner of war camps in the Lexikon der Wehrmacht:
  http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kriegsgefangenenlager/Stammlager.htm
• List of prisoner of war camps on Moosburg Online:
  http://www.moosburg.org/info/stalag/laglist.html
• Haftstättenverzeichnis der Stiftung EVZ (List of camps and imprisonment sites)
  http://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten
• List of DP Camps
  http://www.dpcamps.org/dpcampseurope.html

 

Tracing Services and Data bases

• International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen for civilian victims of Nazi persecution
  http://www.its-arolsen.org
• Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) for former German soldiers and foreign prisoners of war
  http://www.dd-wast.de
• Data bases of Dokumentationsstelle Dresden about Soviet prisoners of war (died until 1945), SMT prisoners and war graves in Saxonia
  http://www.dokst.de/main/content/Datenbanken/datenbanken
• Russian data base about Soviet prisoners of war (died until 1945) with scanned dokuments
  http://www.obd-memorial.ru

 

Memorial Sites

• Memorial Sites for the Victims of National Socialism: Memorial Sites, Memorials, Museums and Institutions. Overview of institutions throughout the world that deal with the history of the Holocaust, created by the Topography of Terror Foundation:
  http://www.gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de

• NS-Memorials and documentation centers in the Federal Republic of Germany – Overview by the Arbeitskreises der NS-Gedenkstätten in NRW:
  http://www.ns-gedenkstaetten.de
• Memorials Forum – Gedenkstättenforum
  http://www.gedenkstaettenforum.de

 

Digitizing and Media Management

• David Systems, System provider for digitization and media management (DigaSystem):
  http://www.david-gmbh.de

 

Interview Projects of the Subsets of the Archive Collection

• 20. század Hangja, Budapest (Voices of the 20th century)
  http://www.20szazadhangja.hu
• Association des Amis du Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère (Friends of the Museum of Resistance and Deportation, Isère), Grenoble:
  http://www.resistance-en-isere.com
• Asociación Historia y Fuente Oral (Oral History Society), Barcelona:
  http://www.hayfo.com
• Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt e.V., Berlin (Berlin History Workshop):
  http://www.berliner-geschichtswerkstatt.de
• Centre for Gender Studies, European Humanities University, Minsk:
  http://gender-ehu.org
• Centrul de studii istorice, economice şi sociale Ltd. (CSIES) (Center for Historical, Economic and Social Studies), Bucharest:
  http://www.csies.home.ro
• Culture and more, Munich:
  http://www.cultureandmore.com

• Ethnographic Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia:
  http://www.bas.bg

• Department of History and Political Science, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg:
  http://www.uni-salzburg.at
• Fritz Bauer Institute, Study- and Documentation Center on the History and Impact of the Holocaust, Frankfurt:
  http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de
• Fundacja Ośrodka KARTA (Foundation KARTA Center), Warsaw:
  http://www.karta.org.pl
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary History, Jerusalem:
  http://icj.huji.ac.il
• Institute for History and Biography at the FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen:
  http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/geschichteundbiographie
• Istituto Luce (Italian Film Institute), Rome:
  http://www.luce.it
• International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Geneva:
  http://iom.fi/content/view/124/8

• Institut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Bildung und Beratung – ISFBB (Social Science Research, Education and Consulting Institute, Nuremberg) Nürnberg e.V., Nuremberg:
  http://www.isfbb.de

• Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow:
  http://www.isras.ru
• Minsk International Education Center Ltd., Minsk:
  http://www.ibb.by
• Krigsinvalideforbundet (Association of Disabled Ex-service Persons, Norway), Oslo:
  http://krigsinvalideforbundet.net
• Lithuanian Names Project, Jerusalem:
  http://www.lithnames.nux.co.uk/index.php
• MEMORIAL – Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable International Society, Moscow:
  http://www.memorial.ru
• Muzej Novoješe Zgodovine Slovenije (National Museum of Contemporary History), Ljubljana:
  http://www.muzej-nz.si
• VoronezhState Pedagogical University, Voronezh:
  www.historyvoice.ru
• RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Economic and Social Studies in History, Aachen:
  http://www.wiso.rwth-aachen.de
• The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Atlanta:
  http://www.thebreman.org
• Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen (University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities), Amsterdam:
  http://www.hum.uva.nl
• Kharkiv University, Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute, Kharkiv:
  http://www.univer.kharkov.ua/dep/ukrstud.php3
• Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven:
  http://www.yale.edu/macmillan
• Živá pamět’. Interview project of the non-profit association “Living Memory”, Prague, Czech Republic:
  http://www.zivapamet.cz

The list of links will be expanded over time.

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