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Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labor and the Holocaust: Building Digital Environments

Explore a collection of testimonies from survivors of Nazi forced labor and the Holocaust in a digital environment. Transcriptions, translations, and annotations are available, along with educational materials and teacher trainings. Access the online archive and search for specific topics or locations. Discover the stories of those who lived through this dark period in history.

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Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labor and the Holocaust: Building Digital Environments

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  1. Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labor and the Holocaust • Building Digital Environments for Research and Education • Dr. Cord Pagenstecher(Freie Universität Berlin)

  2. Testimonies in Digital Environments • “This costs me a lot of nerves and pain, but I see it as my duty. Because there are fewer and fewer survivors, and testimonies and records are needed for other people and other generations.” • (Helena Bohle-Szacki, “Forced Labor 1939-1945”, www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de, za072)

  3. Testimonies in Digital Environments • Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) • Three Interview Collections with Educational Material • www.vha.fu-berlin.de • 53.000 interviews indexed, 950 transcribed • www.zeugendershoah.de • 600 interviews transcribed, translated, indexed • www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.dewww.lernen-mit-interviews.de • 150 interviews, transcribed • www.refugeevoices.fu-berlin.de

  4. Testimonies in Digital Environments • Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) • Three Interview Collections with Educational Material • Transcriptions and Platform • Students‘ Project Days, DVD Series, Teacher Trainings • 2016: Learning Environment with Other Archives • Transcriptions, Translations, Annotations • Online Archive (Backend and Frontend) • DVD and Teachers‘ Manual • 2016: Learning Environment and Teacher Trainings • Integration in Library Catalogue • Cooperation with FernUniversität Hagen: Online-Archiv „Deutsches Gedächtnis“ • Interview Project on Remembering the German occupation in Greece

  5. www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de • Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Webseite

  6. The Interview Collection Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • 600 Interviews à 3,5 hours • 25 Languages (120 Russian, 70 Polish, 40 Czech, 40 English) • Transcripts à 80 pages without detailed guidelines • 400 German translations • Sentence-based time-code segmentation of transcripts and translations • Sentece-based indexing (camps, companies, places, eprsons) • Subtitles and PDF files online, xml files intern

  7. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Registration • www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de • Access within two days

  8. Interview Selection by Categories

  9. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Subtitles and Full Text Search • Revolving subtitles in the original language and in German

  10. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Table of Contents • Narrative Structure with Clickable Chapters

  11. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • User‘s Workbook • Save searches, tag interviews

  12. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Mapping: Birth places, Camps, Companies • Geocoding, Visualisation

  13. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Identifying Camps and Companies • … in Karlsruhe kamen wir in eine Munitionsfabrik…

  14. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Backend Editing Software – Workflow Management

  15. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Backend Editing Software – Tables of Contents, Indexing, Annotations

  16. Zwangsarbeit 1939-1945 • Learning Software, 2010 • Five biographical short films (25 minutes) • Two background films (Forced Labor, Interviews) • Student activities with interaktive editor • Time line, glossary, methodical tipps • Teachers‘ book

  17. Lernen mit Interviews

  18. www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de • www.lernen-mit-interviews.de

  19. Educational Programs and Cooperations • Memorial Museums • Traveling Exhibition • Smartphone App

  20. Perspectives • Connecting Interview ArchivesNetwork of European Interview Collections • EnhancingMethodsand ToolsCuratingandAnalyzing

  21. Network of European Interview Collections • www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de/links • Aims • Find collections • Search acrosscollections • Analyzecollections • Preservecollections • Enhancecollections • Create collections

  22. Curating and Analyzing • Options andIdeas • Curating • Automatic Speech Recognition -> DirtyTranscripts, Full Text Search • Alignment -> Time-codingtranscriptswithaudiofiles • Automatic Translation -> Managing Multilinguality • Named Entity Recognition -> Indexingplaces, persons, camps etc. • Identifyingspeakers, silences, gestures, … -> Multimodal Dialogue • Analyzing • Memory patterns • Narrative patterns • Interview settings • Genderedpatterns

  23. Memory Patterns • Interviews in different years • Jürgen Bassfreund, 1946 (audio) -> Jack Bass, 1995 (video)

  24. Narrative Patterns • Usingtheword „Slave Labor“ / „Slavery“ • Short film „War Zwangsarbeit Sklaverei?“, http://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de/zwangsarbeit/ereignisse/sklavenarbeit-video/index.html, Minute 01:00 bis 01:45

  25. Center für Digitale Systeme (CeDiS) • Bereich multimediale Archive • „Sklav*“ used in 136 interviews (translations)

  26. Interview Setting • Testimonyasdialoguewiththe Interviewer • Narration or Question & Answer? • Number and kind of speaker changes? • …

  27. Gendered Patterns • Experiences – Memories – Narrations • e.g. regarding „sabotage“

  28. Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) • Multimedia Archives • www.cedis.fu-berlin.de • www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de • www.vha.fu-berlin.de • www.zeugendershoah.de • www.refugeevoices.fu-berlin.de • www.lernen-mit-interviews.de • Thank you!

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