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Developing a Digital Interview Archive on Nazi Forced Labor
"Forced Labor 1939-1945" is a digital interview archive for the remembrance of the over twelve million people who were compelled to perform forced labor for Nazi Germany.
The online archive provides access to nearly 600 life stories told by former forced laborers from 26 countries. The project aims to conserve, as well as to make easily available and securely accessible, the collection of audio and video interviews in many different languages that have been compiled by the Institute for History and Biography at the FernUniversität Hagen.
The survivors’ memories have been available for use by schools and memorials and for education and research since January 2009. The development of the online platform, further translations, indexing and preparation for educational use will be continued.
The project is supported by the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin and the German Historical Museum.
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Life Story Interviews for the Classroom: Keeping memory alive and imparting history
New archive version online
Presence at "didacta 2010"
The educational materials of the multimedia archive projects "Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History" and "Witnesses of the Shoah. The Visual History Archive in School Education" will be introduced at the education fair "didacta" from March 16th to March 20th in Cologne.
