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Living Memories for Education and Research
Personal experiences told by the witnesses themselves can help to convey history to young people in a lively way.
Liliana S., Jewish Italian
Many former forced laborers would like to actively participate in memory work at the place of their lost youth. Research calls for individual and collective patterns of memory.
Soon, however, less and less survivors will be available for direct encounters and personal stories. Therefore, written or audiovisual recordings of testimonial accounts are being used more and more in research and historical-political education.
Digital archives safeguard these autobiographical testimonies and make them accessible online.
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.
