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Past Programs and Activities
The interview archive is presented and discussed at workshops, conferences or in school projects. The technology and content of the archive are continually being developed. Here is a list of key events and activities. If you are interested in regular updates about the projects and related events, please sign up for our newsletter.
2010 |
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June 22th, 2010 |
Interview archive - new version online |
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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 |
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April 16th, 2010 |
Workshop “History Turns Digital” at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin |
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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 |
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March 25th -27th, 2010 |
Presentation of educational materials at a teacher training workshop for Polish teachers and memorial site educators in Warsaw |
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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 |
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January 2010 |
Collection of essays on video archives is published with an article on “Forced Labor 1939 – 1945” |
2009 |
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October 12th – 13th, 2009 |
Testing of educational materials at the Babelsberger Filmgymnasium (secondary school) |
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September 14th, 2009 |
Presentation of the project at the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (Berlin History Workshop) |
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August 1st – 16th, 2009 |
Guest lectures and indexing by student project teams at the International Summer University 2009 |
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June 26th, 2009 |
Presentation of the project at the Forum für zeitgeschichtliche Bildung (Contemporary History Education Forum). Topic: Exam presentations |
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June 15th, 2009 |
Testing of prototype of the interactive learning DVD at a creative workshop with secondary school students |
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May 12th, 2009 |
The online archive is nominated for the Grimme Online Award 2009. |
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April 27th, 2009 |
The multimedia station at the German Historical Museum is made available online. |
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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) |
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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). |
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January, 22nd, 2009 |
Launching of the digital interview archive. Launching of the multimedia station at the German Historical Museum. Press conference on the project. |
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January 9th, 2009 |
Presentation of the project at the international conference “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour” at the Imperial War Museum, London. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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November 14th, 2008 |
Presentation of the project with the focus digital archiving at the 3rd tele-TASK-Symposium "Von der Aufnahme zur virtuellen Bibliothek" (From the Recording to Virtual Library) at the Potsdam Hasso Plattner Institute. |
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November 13th, 2008 |
Contemporary-witness talk with Helena Bohle-Szacki, Holocaust Survivors and Contemporary Witnesses in the archive "Force Labor 1939-1945” in Berlin. |
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October 2008 |
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. |
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Sept. 2008 |
Digitizing of the audio and video recordings is completed. |
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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. |
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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). |
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June 12th, 2008 |
Launch of the website with initial information about the project. |
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March 2008 |
Digitizing of the audio and video recording begins. |
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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. |
News
Life Story Interviews for the Classroom: Keeping memory alive and imparting history
New multimedia teaching material on forced labor presented to public.
New archive version online
Additional search functionality - Growing number of indexed interviews
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.

