Past Programs and Activities

2010

June 22th, 2010

Interview archive - new version online

June 15th, 2010

Life Story Interviews in the Classroom: Presentation of new educational materials with a discussion between three generations at the Sopie-Scholl-Oberschule (secondary school) in Berlin

April 16th, 2010

Workshop “History Turns Digital” at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin

April, 13th - 16th, 2010

Presentation of the “Zeugen der Shoah" and “Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945" learning softwares at the "Oral History" network of the 8th European Social Science History Conference in Ghent/Belgium by Gerda Klingenböck

March 25th -27th, 2010

Presentation of educational materials at a teacher training workshop for Polish teachers and memorial site educators in Warsaw

March 16th – 20th, 2010

Presentation of multimedia archive projects “Witnesses of the Shoah” and “Forced Labor 1939 – 1945” at the education trade fair “didacta” in Cologne

January 2010

Collection of essays on video archives is published with an article on “Forced Labor 1939 – 1945”

2009

October 12th – 13th, 2009

Testing of educational materials at the Babelsberger Filmgymnasium (secondary school)

September 14th, 2009

Presentation of the project at the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (Berlin History Workshop)

August 1st – 16th, 2009

Guest lectures and indexing by student project teams at the International Summer University 2009

June 26th, 2009

Presentation of the project at the Forum für zeitgeschichtliche Bildung (Contemporary History Education Forum). Topic: Exam presentations

June 15th, 2009

Testing of prototype of the interactive learning DVD at a creative workshop with secondary school students

May 12th, 2009

The online archive is nominated for the Grimme Online Award 2009.

April 27th, 2009

The multimedia station at the German Historical Museum is made available online.

March 31st, 2009

Presentation of the project at the workshop “Dokumentation der Zwangsarbeit als Erinnerungsaufgabe. Forschungsprogramm zur NS-Zwangsarbeit" (The Documentation of Forced Labor – Remembering and Responsibility. Nazi Forced Labor Research Program) of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” (EVZ)

January 30th/31st, 2009

Presentation of the didactic concept and initial educational materials at the workshop “Entdecken und Verstehen. Zeitzeugeninterviews“ (Discovering and Understanding. Witness Interviews).

January, 22nd, 2009

Launching of the digital interview archive.

January 9th, 2009

Presentation of the project at the international conference “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour” at the Imperial War Museum, London.

January 7th, 2009

Guest lecture by Piotr Filipkowski: "Zwangsarbeit und Oral History, Teil II: Das Zentrum KARTA" (Forced Labor and Oral History, Part II: The KARTA Center) as part of the colloquium of the Chair for the History of Eastern Central Europe at the Institute of Eastern European Studies, Berlin.

2008

December 18th, 2008

Practical report on the project “Documentation of Biographical Interviews with Former Slave and Forced Laborers” (FernUniversität, University of Hagen) on the development of the collection “Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History”. Guests: Gisela Wenzel and Ewa Czerwiakowski (Berlin History Workshop e.V., Interview Project Poland – BGW Berlin)

December 10th, 2008

Guest lecture by Irina Scherbakova: "Zwangsarbeit und Oral History, Teil I: Die Gesellschaft Memorial" (Forced Labor and Oral History, Part I: The Memorial Society) as part of the colloquium of the Chair for the History of Eastern Central Europe at the Institute of Eastern European Studies, Berlin.

November 14th, 2008

Presentation of the project with the focus digital archiving at the 3^rd tele-TASK-Symposium "Von der Aufnahme zur virtuellen Bibliothek" (From the Recording to Virtual Library) at the Potsdam Hasso Plattner Institute.

November 13th, 2008

Contemporary-witness talk with Helena Bohle-Szacki, Holocaust Survivors and Contemporary Witnesses in the archive "Force Labor 1939-1945” in Berlin.

October 2008
– August 2009

Use of the interview archive in research and education at the Freie Universität Berlin begins with the advanced seminar "Zwangsarbeit und Oral History. Grundlagen und praktische Übungen“ (Forced Labor and Oral History. Principles and Practical Exercises), V. M. Stefanski, Chair for the History of Eastern Central Europe at the Institute of Eastern European Studies, Berlin.

Sept. 2008

Digitizing of the audio and video recordings is completed.

September 8th, 2008

Presentation of the project at the symposium "Oral History – Chancen und Probleme öffentlicher Präsentationen und pädagogischer Arbeit“ (Oral History – Opportunities and Problems of Public Presentations and Pedagogic Work) of the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin.

June 2008

The book Hitlers Sklaven (Hitler’s Slaves) about the interview collection of the archive “Forced Labor 1939-1945” is published by Böhlau (Vienna).

June 12th, 2008

Launch of the website with initial information about the project.

March 2008

Digitizing of the audio and video recording begins.

October 10th, 2007

Signing of the contract to begin the project in cooperation with the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future”, the Freie Universität Berlin and the German Historical Museum.