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Interviews with Experts

Members of the project team have been conducting expert interviews since 2009. Some of the interviews span the course of many hours. These have been compiled as short half-hour films. Those films with ca. 10 interview questions each can be accessed directly. Interviews are available with the following experts: 

• Dr. Piotr Filipkowski: The Commemoration of National Socialist Forced Labor in Poland

Piotr Filipkowski works at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2002 he is member of KARTA, where he works in the Oral History Programme. In the interview he talks about KARTA's work and the role of Oral History in Poland. Furthermore, he highlighst the importance of Forced Labor in the Polish culture of memory. The interview was conducted in English.

To the Interview » (in English)

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• Prof. Dr. Constantin Goschler: Patterns of remembrance - Coping with Nazi forced labor since 1945

Prof. Constantin Goschler is a contemporary historian at Ruhr University Bochum. He talks about the social, political and economic developments, that led to the establishment of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". This foundation organized and controlled the financial compensation scheme for former forced laborers.

To the Interview » (in German)

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• Dr. Franziska Henningsen: Extreme trauma and remembrance – A psychoanalytical perspective of life story interviews with survivors of National Socialism

Dr. Franziska Henningsen is a psychoanalyst in private practice and also teaches at the Berlin Psychoanalysis Institute (Karl-Abraham-Institut). Her research has focused on psychic trauma. In the interview she speaks about the consequences of traumas and their influence on life story interviews with survivors of National Socialism.

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• Dr. Ulrike Jureit: Patterns of remembrance – Methods and interpretation of oral history interviews

Ulrike Jureit is a historian at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. She has been studying methodological aspects of life story interviews with concentration camp survivors for many years now. In this interview, she explains concepts like patterns of remembrance and layering of experiences. She talks about the methodological analysis of oral history interviews as well as their evaluation in research.

To the Interview » (in German)

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• Dr. Alexander von Plato: The project "Documentation of biographical interviews with former slave and forced laborers" (Part 1) – The oral history project and its results in an international context (Part 2)

Dr. Alexander von Plato, a historian and longstanding director of the Institute for History and Biography at the FernUniversität in Hagen – University of Hagen, was one of the three coordinators of the project: "Documentation of biographical interviews with former slave and forced laborers". He coordinated the methodology and developed the interview guidelines. In the first part of the interview (The project: "Documentation of biographical interviews with former slave and forced laborers") he speaks about how the project came about and the challenges involved in its implementation.

To the Interview (Part 1) » (in German)

In the second part of the interview (The oral history project and its results in an international context) he comments on the international dimension of the interviews and their significance for science and education.

To the Interview (Part 2) » (in German)

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• Günter Saathoff: The origins and work of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"

The law scholar Günter Saathoff is the Director of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future". In this interview he talks about the origins and objectives of the Foundation. He explains the disbursement program for former forced laborers and tells about the educational projects sponsored by the “Remembrance and Future” Fund.

To the Interview » (in German)

• Dr. Christian Schölzel: Interviews with victims of National Socialism in Croatia

Dr. Christian Schölzel is the owner of the history communication company Culture and more and an expert in German (South)-Eastern European history. He spoke with victims of National Socialism in Croatia for the interview collection of the online archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" (Subset: "Croatia – CM Munich"). He talks about his experience of the interview process and about history and memory in the former Yugoslavia.

To the Interview » (in German)

• Gisela Wenzel: Oral history and history workshops

Gisela Wenzel is co-founder of the Berlin History Workshop (BGW) and expert in Nazi forced labor in Berlin and Brandenburg. For the interview collection of the online archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" she spoke with former forced laborers from Lodz (Poland) deployed in Berlin (Subset "Poland - BGW Berlin"). She talks about the significance of contemporary witness interviews for the activities of history workshops.

To the Interview » (in German)

• Panel of experts "Forced labor in Europe – Forced labor in Berlin"

Accompanying the exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers and the War" the Foundation EVZ and the Jewish Museum organized a panel discussion "Zwangsarbeit in Europa - Zwangsarbeit in Berlin" on October 4th, 2010. The panel participants included the historians Dr. Christine Glauning (Documentation Center of Nazi Forced Labor in Berlin Schöneweide), Dr. Cord Pagenstecher (Berlin History Workshop / Freie Universität Berlin) and Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner (Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation), moderation Dr. Manfred Sapper (German Association for East European Studies).

To the Podium Discussion » (in German)

 

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