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Preserving Survivors' Memories Education with Testimonies PRESERVING SURVIVORS’ MEMORIES Digital Testimony Collections about Nazi Persecution: History, Education and Media edited by Nicolas Apostolopoulos | Michele Barricelli | Gertrud Koch Education with Testimonies, Vol. 3 PRESERVING SURVIVORS’ MEMORIES Digital Testimony Collections about Nazi Persecution: History, Education and Media edited by Nicolas Apostolopoulos | Michele Barricelli | Gertrud Koch on behalf of Stiftung „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (EVZ) Due to the generation shift, the central challenge has become to preserve the memories of the survivors of National Socialist persecution and to anchor these within 21st century cultural memory. In this transition phase, which includes rapid technical developments within information and communi- cations technology, high expectations are being made of the collections of survivors’ audio and video interviews. This publication reflects the interdis- ciplinary debates currently taking place on the various digital techniques of preserving eyewitness interviews. The focus is how the changes in media technology are affecting the various fields of work, which include storage/ archiving, education as well as the reception of the interviews. TABLE OF CONTENTS 9 Günter Saathoff Opening Remarks 13 Geoffrey Hartman Future Memory: Reflections on Holocaust Testimony and Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive SECTION I – DIGITAL CHALLENGES 31 Nicolas Apostolopoulos Audio and Video Interviews as a Digital Source for the e-Humanities 35 Sigal Arie-Erez and Judith Levin, Yael Gherman Seizing the Middle Ground: The New Role of the Archivist: A Perspective from Yad Vashemn 41 Douglas A. Boyd Search, Explore, Connect: Using OHMS to Enhance Access to Oral History 52 Stef Scagliola, Franciska de Jong Taking Notes about Ringing Doorbells and Barking Dogs: the Value of Context for the Re-use of Oral History Data 69 Bea Lewkowicz Published by Nicolas Apostolopoulos | Michele Barricelli | Gertrud Koch The AJR Refugee Voices Archive: A Resource for Scholarship and Learning on behalf of Stiftung „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (EVZ) Coordination: Dr. Ralf Possekel (EVZ), Freya Kettner SECTION II – EDUCATION Copy Editing: Marc Heinitz 87 Michele Barricelli Design and Layout: ruf.gestalten (Hedwig Ruf) Publication Project “Preserving Survivors’ Memories” 91 Werner Dreier Photo credits, cover: Interview-Archiv Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in School Education – Experiences, Challenges, Open Questions from an Austrian Perspective ISBN: 978-3-9813377-8-5 (online version) 107 Nadine Fink ISBN: 978-3-9818556-0-9 (printed version) © Stiftung „Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (EVZ), Berlin 2016 History Education with Video Testimonies: A Swiss Case Study about Pupils’ Historical Thinking All rights reserved. The work and its parts are protected by copyright. Any use in other than 119 Katharina Obens legally authorized cases requires the written approval of the Foundation EVZ. Emotions and Historical Learning with Survivor Testimonies This publication does not reflect the opinions of the Foundation EVZ. The authors bear the 133 Diana Gring responsibility for statements contained herein. The Interview Project of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial PRESERVING SURVIVORS’ MEMORIES 5 140 Suzanne Bardgett The Use of Oral History in the Imperial War Museum’s Holocaust Exhibition 145 Freddy Mutanguha Peace Building through Education: Rwanda and the Kigali Genocide Memorial 149 Edward Serotta Preserving Jewish Memory, Bringing Jewish Stories to Life: Combining New Technologies, Family Pictures, and the old-fashioned Art of Storytelling SECTION III – FILM 161 Gertrud Koch Visual Media, Websites and TV 164 Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann Witnessing Emotion: Encountering Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies in Documentary Films 174 Régine-Mihal Friedman Revisiting Das Ghetto (May 1942): Breaking The Silence of the Archive (2010) 187 Paul Frosh Survivor Testimony and the Ethics of Digital Interfaces 204 Judith Keilbach Microphone, Videotape, Database: Reflections on a Media History of the Historical Witness 227 Sylvie Lindeperg Judicial Truth and Cinematographic Truth – Filmed Courtroom Testimonies: the Case of the Eichmann Trial 238 Michael Renov The Facial Close-up in Audio-Visual Testimony: The Power of Embodied Memory 249 Sylvie Rollet Embodied Archives: The Torturers’ Testimony in Rithy Panh’s S-21 256 INDEX OF AUTHORS 6 PRESERVING SURVIVORS’ MEMORIES OPENING REMARKS The preamble to the Law on the Creation of a Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” in the year 2000 states, among other things, that the German Bundestag intends to “keep alive the memory of the injustice inflicted on the victims [of National Socialism] for coming generations as well”. In its first years, the Foundation fulfilled this commitmentprimarily by supporting personal encounters between victims of National Socialism and young people. At the same time, it was clear that it would soon no longer be possible to pass on remembrances in this way. Following the example set by others (for instance the Fortunoff Video Archive launched in 1979, the in- terviews initiated by Steven Spielberg with almost 52,000 survivors in the 1990s, and the diverse activities of Yad Vashem), the Foundation set up an international project in which former slave and forced laborers were asked about their life histories. Between 2005 and 2007, almost 600 interviews were carried out in 26 countries. In cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin, these interviews were later comprehensively prepared in the digital archive “Forced Labor 1939–45” (http://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de) and made available to the public for research, training, as well as education and media purposes. With particular focus on the history of forced labor under National Socialism, the Foundation thus played an active part in international efforts to document the memories of the survivors. During this process of coming to terms with the past, the Foundation’s inten- tion is not to brush over the crimes and the systemic relationships in favor of promoting undue identification with the testimonies of former victims of National Socialism. Rather, the aim is to open up an additional perspective that is essential to understanding the history of National Socialism, a per- spective which for various reasons and for many decades has played only a subordinate role in research and the culture of remembrance (and not only in Germany). One particular academic and educational challenge we therefore face today is to uncover the wealth of documented victim perspectives while PRESERVING SURVIVORS’ MEMORIES 9 at the same time avoiding the exaggerated elevation of the testimonies. The In the context of remembrance of the history of National Socialism, we are reports of the survivors are not the final truths. Their subjective authenticity still at an important turning point – the transition from “communicative” to does however open the door to questions about the contexts and alternative “cultural” memory. The latter can no longer draw on exchanges with living thematic approaches: about perpetrators and structures, about the scope for eyewitnesses. The simple act of documenting as many life histories as pos- independent action, and about the possibility of resistance and individual sible was in itself an important step in this transition. But it would be na- responsibility. In this respect, the perspective of the victims is indispensable. ive to believe that by making testimonies available for future generations the The Foundation is therefore working to anchor this permanently in the “cul- job is finished. The crucial point is that careful storage in archives is no guar- tural” memory in Germany and in Europe. antee that things will not be forgotten in the culture of remembrance. As in With this in mind, the bodies of the Foundation decided at an early stage to communicative memory, remembrance strategies, historical interpretations make young people aware of this rich collection of biographical interviews, and “forgetting” are interactive elements within cultural memory. As the cul- which were initially accessible only in digital archives, through various edu- tural memory will be a “digital memory” in many important respects in fu- cational formats. As time goes on, young people will have less and less direct ture, these strategies will always be linked to digital selection and evaluation contact – or no contact at all – with this history through family members, and techniques, and this in turn will have a growing impact on research and con- their lives today are fundamentally different from those in the first half of the sequently on our approach to remembrance. The contributions in section 1 20th century. Together with its partners, the Foundation has been develop- of the combined edition presented here focus on this aspect in particular. In ing online education materials, taking selected interviews from the digital section 2, the contributions address the challenges that arise when video in- archive “Forced Labor 1939–45”, putting them into context and preparing terviews are embedded in different educational formats and environments, them for educational use. These kinds of educational materials are already for example at memorial sites, museums or in the classroom. One funda- available for Germany and the Czech Republic in 2016, and they are currently mental question here is how target groups living many decades hence can be being prepared for use in Russia
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