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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.- Example Biographies from the Collection
- Expert Interview with Ulrike Jureit (German)
- Expert Interview with Franziska Henningsen (German)
News
New project day on the Auschwitz Trial
At the second day of "Victims' Voices at the Perpetrators' Site" in the "Topograpy of Terror", students do research on witnesses and perpetrators at Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963-65).
Second Edition Educational Material
The educational material about "Forced Labor 1939-1945" ist now available in a second edition. Video DVD, learning software and teachers' book are can be purchased at Federal Agency for Civic Education.
Testifying in Nazi Trials
On december 15, 1961, the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem ended with a death sentence. The Jewish Auschwitz survivor and artist Yehuda B. testified against Adolf Eichmann and - two years later - at the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt.
