Programs and Activities
2018 |
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| October 8-10, 2018 | Lecture at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2018 in Pisa. more» |
| September 19-21, 2018 | CLARIN-Workshop "Oral History: Users and their scholarly pracitices in a multidisciplinary world" in München. more» |
| September 17-18, 2018 | Lecture at the 10th Mauthausen Dialogue Forum on "Holocaust in Film and New Media'' at the Mauthausen Memorial. more» |
| September 3-14, 2018 | EHRI-Fellowship am King's College London und Workshop "Jewish Heritage Records and Digital Humanities" |
| July 18-21, 2018 | Lecture at the conference "IOHA 2018 Memory & Narration. The XX International Oral History Association Conference" in Jyväskylä. more» |
| June 26, 2018 | Conferment of the Berlin Digital Humanities Prize 2018 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. more» |
| June 11, 2018 | Training of student teachers as part of the seminar "Media in the 20th/21st Century" at the Humboldt University in Berlin. more» |
| May 8-9, 2018 | Lectures at the conference "Forced Labor during Word War II - Effects and Remembrance" in Szczecin. more» |
| April 13, 2018 | Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Ludwigsfelde. more» |
| March 20-22, 2018 | Lecture at the workshop "Digital Learning at school and extracurricular education" in Prague more» |
| March 14, 2018 | Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Ludwigsfelde. more» |
| March 11-12, 2018 | Lectures on the Russian learning platform "Обучение на основе интервью" at an event for disseminators at the German Historical Institute in Moscow. more» |
| March 7, 2018 | Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" at the Freie Universität Berlin. more» |
| February 27, 2018 | Lecture at the event "Helena Bohle-Szacki. From Białystok to Berlin" at the Foundation Topography of Terror. more» |
| January 31, 2018 | Anita Lasker-Wallfisch gives a speech at the German Bundestag. more» |
| January 15-16, 2018 | 6th meeting of the network Oral History at the Freie Universität Berlin. more» |
2017 |
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December 3, 2017 |
"Insegnare con le video interviste. L‘ambiente didattico online sul lavoro coatto 1939-1945". Lecture at the 3rd Italian seminar for teachers "Rethinking and Teaching the History of Nazism" in Berlin. |
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December 1, 2017 |
Freie Universität Berlin grants access to the Fortunoff Archive. more» |
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November 16, 2017 |
Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Munich. more» |
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November 13-15, 2017 |
Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Dillingen. more» |
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November 6, 2017 |
Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Mainz. more» |
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November 5-8, 2017 |
Lecture at the conference "Biographical Data in an Digital World" in Linz. more» |
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September 26, 2017 |
Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Berlin. more» |
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September 15, 2017 |
Workshop on the online learning platform "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" at a conference for teachers and disseminators in Hamburg. more» |
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August 24, 2017 |
Workshop "The Russian learning platform Обучение на основе интервью/ Learning with Interviews. Forced Labor 1939-1945 : First experiences and perspectives". more» |
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June 29-30, 2017 |
Lecture at the workshop "Data Sharing, Holocaust Documentation, Digital Humanities Best Practices, Case Studies, Benefits" in Venice. more» |
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June 23-24, 2017 |
Lecture at the conference "Digital Humanities and Biographical Research" at the FernUniversität Hagen. more» |
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March 07, 2017 |
Meeting of the advidory board on the Russian version of the online learning platform at the Freie Universität Berlin. more» |
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February 15, 2017 |
Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Duisburg. more» |
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January 23-27, 2017 |
Second Workshop on the Russian language version of the online application "Learning with Interviews. Forced Labor 1939-1945" at the Regional Center for Oral History of the Institute for High Technologies in Voronezh. more» |
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January 9-11, 2017 |
Lectures at the workshop "Video Testimonies of Victims of National Socialism" organised by erinnern.at in Vienna. more» |
2016 |
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| December 6-8, 2016 |
Lecture on the 2. International Oral History Conference of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem titled "What compensation is that? The Online-Archive Forced Labor. Memory and History in the light of the Forced Labor Compensation". |
| December 2, 2016 | Meeting with the educational department of the Mauthausen Memorial on the topic "Preparing and following up memorial visits with video interviews". |
| December 1, 2016 | Teacher's training on the online application "Learning with Interviews: Forced Labor 1939-1945" in Steyr |
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November 8-9, 2016 |
Exchange with the KARTA Center Foundation on the plans for a Polish language version of a online application with interviews from the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" (Poland). |
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October 9, 2016 |
Presentation of archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" as well as the online application "Learning with Interviews" and its planned Russian version at the conference on German-Russian student exchange in Berlin. |
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July 24-30, 2016 |
VIII. Summer School of the Multimedia Archives at Freie Universität Berlin: Überlebende als Zeug(-inn)en in NS-Prozessen. Die Wahrnehmung der juristischen Strafverfolgung von NS-Verbrechen in Oral History-Quellen. |
| July 11-16, 2016 | Presentation "The Online Archive 'Forced Labor 1939-1945. Memory and History'" at the international conference: Digital Humanities 2016 in Cracow (Poland). more» |
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June 28, 2016 |
Presentation of the study "Die Lehre über den Holocaust an deutschen Hochschulen". |
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June 27, 2016 |
Presentation of the web app "Learning with Interviews" and "Ansichts-Karten von Gestern nach Morgen" at a school in Berlin. more» |
| June 1-2, 2016 |
Board meeting and workshop about the Russian learning platform on Nazi Forced Labor in Moscow/Woronezh. |
| May 19, 2016 |
"Zwangsarbeit in Europa, Österreich und Steyr". Presentation within the International Traveling Exhibition on Forced Labor in Steyr (Austria). |
| May 4, 2016 |
Presentation of the digital teaching platform "NUCENÁ PRÁCE 1939–1945. Příběhy pamětníků ve výuce" in the Goethe-Institut Prague, Czech Republic. |
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April 25, 2016 |
"Interview-Archive zum Nationalsozialismus als Korpora der gesprochenen Sprache". Guest presentation at the Institute of Romanic Philology, Freie Universität Berlin |
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April 18-19, 2016 |
Presentation of interview archives at CLARIN-PLUS Workshop "Exploring Spoken Word Data in Oral History Archives" in Oxford (Great Britain). more» |
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April 6, 2016 |
"Ansichtskarten von Gestern nach Morgen". Theater performance with oral history interviews about Shoah und Forced Labor in Berlin. more» |
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April 1, 2016 |
Presentation of the Online Archive at the European Social Science History Conference 2016 (ESSHC) in Valencia (Spain). more» |
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March 14-16, 2016 |
Presentation "Testimonies in Digital Environments" at the international conference "Bearing Witness More Than Once. How Institutions, Media and Time Shape Shoah Survivors’ Testimonies" in Berlin. more» |
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March 9-11, 2016 |
Conference "Divided Memory? Remembering Nazi Forced Labour in Twenty-First-Century Europe" in the "Museum der Arbeit" in Hamburg. more» |
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February 29, 2016 |
International Workshop "Lernen mit Interviews" at the Freie Universität Berlin. |
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February 9, 2016 |
Presentation of the Online Archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945" in the German-Russian House in Moscow. more» |
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February 8/9, 2016 |
Presentation "Zeitzeugen-Archive" at the conference "Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. |
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January 27, 2016 |
Youth Encounter of German Bundestag; Presentation "Forced Labor was Everywhere" on January 24, 2016 in Berlin. more» |
2015 |
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| December 4/5, 2015 | Seminar "Digitale Wege gehen" in Bergen Belsen Memorial. |
| December 3, 2015 | Presentation at Workshop "Oral History meets Linguistics" in Freiburg. more» |
| November 23, 2015 | Presentation at "Public History" MA course in Berlin. |
| November 14, 2015 | Presentation at Landeszentrale für politische Bildung in Koblenz. |
| October 29, 2015 |
Project presentation at the 12th "DH-Rundgang" of the Interdisciplinary Research Association for Digital Humanities in Berlin (if|DH|b). |
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July 8, 2015 |
Lecture at Seminar "Epistemologie der Zeugenschaft" in Berlin. |
May 28 - 30, 2015 |
Presentation of the Multilingual Online Archive at the Regional Center for Oral History in Voronezh. more» |
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March 16, 2015 |
Lecture at the conference of the Bayrischer Volkshochschulverband. |
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March 12, 2015 |
Presentation at The Centre for Historical Research in Berlin of The Polish Academy of Sciences. more» |
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January 7-9, 2015 |
Presentation at the conference "Beyond Camps and Forced Labour". more» |
2014 |
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November 13, 2014 |
Lecture "Forced labour in National Socialism. History and memory" at the seminar "Zwangsarbeiterinnen und Zwangsarbeiter - Sklaven der Volksgemeinschaft?". |
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November 10, 2014 |
Presentation at the forum "Digitales Archiv und kulturelles Gedächtnis". more» |
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November 4, 2014 |
Presentation at the Regional Center for Oral History in Voronezh. more» |
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October 26, 2014 |
Lecture "Mapping Testimonies" at the conference "Digital Memories". |
July 11, 2014 |
Online Archive "Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945" (German) available also as "Forced Labor 1939-1945" (English) and "Принудительный труд 1939-1945" (Russian). |
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May 22, 2014 |
Presentation at "Museums and the Internet" Conference. more» |
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May 16, 2014 |
Lecture at Conference "Videographierte Zeugenschaft". more» |
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May 12, 2014 |
Lecture on Forced Laborers' Resistance at Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt. more» |
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April 30, 2014 |
Hosting the Workshop "Beyond Memorialisation. Design for Conflict Heritage" in Berlin. more» |
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April 3-4, 2014 |
Project Presentation at Workshop "The Musealisation of Witnesses" in Mauthausen. more» |
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March 31 - April 2, 2014 |
Project Presentation at Workshop "Working with Testimonies in Memorial Museums" in Dresden. |
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March 25, 2014 |
Book Launch and Discussion "Remembering Forced Labor. Audio and Video Testimonies in the Digital World". more» |
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March 20, 2014 |
Lecture on the Colloquium "Belgians before Berlin Penal Courts". more» |
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February 28, 2014 |
Workshop "Crossing Borders - Digital humanities today and tomorrow". more» |
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January 6, 2014 |
New expert interview with Ralph Giordano. more» |
2013 |
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December 20, 2013 |
50 Years Ago: Start of Auschwitz Trial Frankfurt. Theme Clip with Yehuda B. more» |
December 11, 2013 |
Conference Proceedings "Erinnern an Zwangsarbeit. Zeitzeugen-Interviews in der digitalen Welt". more» |
December 12, 2013 |
New archive Functionality: User Annotations for Interview Excerpts. more» |
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November 20, 2013 |
New expert interview with Loretta Walz. more» |
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October 30, 2013 |
Project Presentation at the Conference "Competing Memories" in Amsterdam. more» |
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October 2, 2013 |
Article on the "Online-Access" to Flossenbürg in the special issue of the LaG-Magazine. more» |
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September 8, 2013 |
Short film on Italian military internees. more» |
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August 25-31, 2013 |
Summer School of the multimedia Archives at Freie Universität Berlin. more» |
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August 7, 2013 |
New expert interview with Martin Sabrow. more» |
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July 9, 2013 |
Attendance of the conference "Public History of the Holocaust". more» |
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July 6, 2013 |
Project presentation at the workshop „Oral History als Methode zur Erforschung der sowjetischen Geschichte“. more» |
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June 26, 2013 |
Article "Da sammelt man die Erinnerungen" in Yearbook of the International Tracing Service. more» |
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June 12-14, 2013 |
Project presentation at the conference "Digital Testimonies on War and Trauma". more» |
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June 5, 2013 |
Project presentation for international students in the "Humanity in Action. 2013 German Fellowship Program." more» |
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May, 27-29, 2013 |
Lecture "Mapping Testimonies" on the EHRI Workshop "Geography and Holocaust Research". more» |
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May 22, 2013 |
New Article about the Archive in the EHRI-Newsletter. more» |
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May 22, 2013 |
New Testimony App with Interviews from the Online Archive. more» |
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May 15, 2013 |
Signing of the contract for the continuation of the project "Forced Labor 1939 - 1945". Development of a multilingual archive version begins. 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. |