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Programs and Activities
The interview archive is presented and discussed at seminars, conferences or in school projects. The technology and content of the archive are continually being developed. A list of key events and activities can be found on this website. If you are interested in regular updates about the projects and related events, please sign up for our newsletter.
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May 22, 2013 |
New Testimony App with Interviews from the Online Archive. more» |
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January 30, 2013 |
Teacher training in Frankfurt (Main). more» |
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January 28, 2013 |
Book Launch "Berlin 1933-1945". more» |
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January 10, 2013 |
Lecture at German-Polish Conference on Nazi-Forced Labor in Warsaw. more» |
2012 |
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December 13, 2012 |
Project Day with students of Dr. Frank-Gymnasium Staßfurt (Sachsen-Anhalt) |
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December 12, 2012 |
Project day with a class of the Humboldt Gymnasium Eichenwalde |
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November 20 - 22, 2012 |
Co-organization of the international conference "Preserving Survivors' Memories". more» |
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November 15 - 16, 2012 |
Project presentation at the workshop on "eyewitness reports in educational work on Nazi and East German history" in Prora-Zentrum. more» |
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November 8, 2012 |
Project presentation within the framework of the exhibition "Russenlager und Zwangsarbeit". more» |
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October 23, 2012 |
Short film to Sinti and Roma, autobiography of Reinhard Florian. more» |
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October 17, 2012 |
Presentation of “Online Access Flossenbürg” at a teacher training held at the memorial. more» |
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October 6, 2012 |
City tour “Places of Forced Labor in Berlin. The Tracing App Project with Witness Memories.” more» |
October 4 - 6, 2012 |
Conference “Remembering Forced Labor. Audio and Video Testimonies in the Digital World.” more» |
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October 4, 2012 |
Contemporary witness discussion with Paul Schaffer in Institut Français. more» |
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October 4, 2012 |
Closing session of the Academic Advisory Council |
October 3, 2012 |
New archive version with map, workbook and 400 accessible interviews. more» |
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October 3, 2012 |
The online archive is on Facebook. more» |
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September 12, 2012 |
Project introduction and training for Ukrainian multipliers (GHWK / Topograpy / Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies. more» |
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September 5, 2012 |
Contemporary witness discussion about the forced Germanization of Polish children with a witness represented in the online archive. more» |
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July 31 - August 4, 2012 |
4th international summer school of the multimedia archives: Remembrance of national-socialist persecution of Sinti & Roma. more» |
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July 2012 |
Testing of the new "Online Access Flossenbürg". more» |
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June 16 - October 7, 2012 |
Exhibition “The Police and the Nazi Regime” in Ingolstadt: Media station with interview excerpts from “Forced Labor. 1939-1945.” more» |
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Feb. 20, 2012 |
70th anniversary of the “Special Decrees for Eastern Workers”: New clip (audio slide show), a new expert discussion online. more» |
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Jan. 25, 2012 |
Project at the youth meeting of the German Bundestag. more» |
2011 |
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December 19, 2011 |
Second edition of educational materials "Video Testimonies for School Education: Video DVD - Learning Software - Teachers' Book" are published by Federal Agency for Civic Education. more» |
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December 19, 2011 |
New feature in the online archive: Personal folder to save searches, etc. more» |
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December 15, 2011 |
Short film "Testifying in Nazi processes" - totalling eight theme clips online. more» |
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December 14, 2011 |
Consulting day for the use of interviews in A level examination presentations with Berlin Canisius Kolleg |
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November 25, 2011 |
Project presentation in Oberhausen. more» |
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November 22, 2011 |
First school project day in cooperation with Topography of Terror. more» |
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November 16, 2011 |
New digital archive „Refugee Voices“ at Center for Digital Systems. more» |
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November 14/15, 2011 |
Contribution to German-Russian Conference on Nazi Forced Labor in Moscow. more» |
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October 12, 2011 |
Award for Learning Software: GIGA-Maus 2011. more» |
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October 1, 2011 |
"Slave Labor". A short film on the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg Judgement. more» |
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Sept. 29, 2011 |
Lecture at the "Vernetzungswerkstatt Bildung grenzüberschreitend" in Dresden. more» |
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September 14, 2011 |
Project presentation at a Czech-German expert workshop in Prague. more» |
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September 7/8, 2011 |
Exchange of ideas with interview projects from Budapest / Hungary and Voronezh / Russia |
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August 1 - 6, 2011 |
Third Summer School 2011 of the Multimedia Archives at Freie Universitaet Berli: "Voices of the Past". more» |
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August 1, 2011 |
Police and Forced Labor. A short film on the website. more» |
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July 31, 2011 |
First English language expert's talk online: Piotr Filipkowski (KARTA/ Polish Academy of Sciences. more» |
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June 22, 2011 |
Opening of the exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers, and the War" in the Central Museum of the great Patriotic War in Moscow, with interview excerpts from the online archive. more» |
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June 1, 2011 |
Learning with Testimonies. Teacher training in Celle. more» |
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April - July, 2011 |
Exhibition "The Police and the Nazi Regime" in the German Historical Museum in Berlin: Media station with interview excerpts from the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945". more» |
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April 15, 2011 |
Interview excerpt in remembrance of April 15, 1945: Liberation of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen more» (In German) |
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March 31, 2011 |
Collaboration with the information portal "Forced Labour in the National Socialist State" of the Federal Archive: New meta search in the archival holdings and testimonies according to places of detention. more» |
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February 10, 2011 |
Teacher training at Freie Universität Berlin on the use of the educational materials "Video Testimonies for School Education". more» |
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February 8, 2011 |
Presentation of the online archive at the "Berlin Society for Research on Fascism and World War". more» |
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January 27, 2011 |
"In Search of Memory": A media project of the ver.di (German trade union) youth educational institution with an interview from the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945", presented in the Berlin House of Representatives. more» (in German) |
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January 27, 2011 |
Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp: Related interview excerpts are presented on the website. more» (In German) |
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January 19, 2011 |
Eight experts' interviews on Forced Labor and Oral History are online. more» |
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January 10, 2011 |
Presentation of educational materials and a conversation with the survivor Helena Bohle-Szacki in the Jewish Museum Berlin. more» |
2010 |
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December 2010 |
The educational materials "Video Testimonies for School Education: Video DVD - Learning Software - Teachers' Book" are available for order at the Federal Office for Political Education. more» |
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December 2010 |
Presentation of the project in the magazine of the association "Gegen Vergessen - Für Demokratie" ("Against Forgetting - For Democracy"). more» (In German) |
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November 24 - 25, 2010 |
Israeli-German meeting of experts on educational work with testimonies. more» |
| November 11, 2010 | Teacher training in Braunschweig (in association with the Memorial Center Schillstrasse). |
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October 2010 |
Publication "Hitler's Slaves. Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe". more» |
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October 4, 2010 |
Panel discussion "Forced Labor in Europe – Forced Labor in Berlin" in the Jewish Museum Berlin. more» |
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September 30, 2010 |
Project presentation at a teacher training in the Jewish Museum Berlin. more» |
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September 27, 2010 |
Opening of the exhibition "Forced Labor. The Germans, the Forced Laborers, and the War" in the Jewish Museum Berlin, also presenting interview excerpts from the online archive. more» |
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September 17, 2010 |
Project presentation at a teacher training in Dresden. more» (In German). |
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September 8, 2010 |
Essay on National Socialist forced labor in the magazine "Learning from History". more» (In German) |
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September 1, 2010 |
Remembering September 1st, 1939: Invasion of Poland. Interview excerpts commemorating the anniversary are presented on the website. more» (In German) |
June 22, 2010 |
Interview archive - new version online |
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June 15, 2010 |
Video Testimonies for School Education: 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 16, 2010 |
Workshop “History Turns Digital” at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. |
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April 13 - 16, 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 25 -27, 2010 |
Presentation of educational materials at a teacher training workshop for Polish teachers and memorial site educators in Warsaw. |
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March 16 - 20, 2010 |
Presentation of the 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 the archive “Forced Labor 1939 – 1945”. more» |
2009 |
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October 12 - 13, 2009 |
Testing of educational materials at the Babelsberger Filmgymnasium (secondary school). |
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September 14, 2009 |
Presentation of the project at the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt (Berlin History Workshop). |
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August 1 - 16, 2009 |
Guest lectures and first indexing of interviews in student project teams at the International Summer University 2009. |
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June 26, 2009 |
Presentation of the project at the Forum für zeitgeschichtliche Bildung (Contemporary History Education Forum). (Topic: Examination presentations). |
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June 15, 2009 |
Testing of prototype of the interactive learning DVD at a creative workshop with secondary school students. |
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May 12, 2009 |
The online archive is nominated for the Grimme Online Award 2009. |
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April 27, 2009 |
The multimedia station at the German Historical Museum is made available online. more» |
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March 31, 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 30/31, 2009 |
Presentation of the didactic concept and initial educational materials at the workshop “Entdecken und Verstehen. Zeitzeugeninterviews“ (Discovering and Understanding. Witness Interviews). |
January, 22, 2009 |
Launching of the digital interview archive and the multimedia station at the German Historical Museum. Press conference on the project. more» |
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January 9, 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 7, 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 18, 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 10, 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 14, 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 13, 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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September 2008 |
Digitizing of the audio and video recordings is completed. |
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September 8, 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). |
June 12, 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 10, 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
Forced Labor. The Testimony App by Berlin History Workshop
The smartphone app "Forced Labor" by Berlin History Workshop provides access to the memories of witnesses.
Continuing of the project "Forced Labor 1939 - 1945"
Freie Universität Berlin, German Historical Museum Berlin and the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" continue their successful cooperation in the project "Forced Labor 1939 - 1945".
New Places of Remembrance and Exhibitions
This spring - 80 years after the handover of power to the Nazis and 67 years after the liberation - new projects of rememberance in Berlin offer information also on the history of forced labor.
