The Visual History of the Holocaust online platform is breaking new ground in the way moving images about the Holocaust can be presented. Through interactive online tools, visual sources of the Holocaust are being re-evaluated based on the mapping, detailed scene-by-scene description, and comprehensive contextualisation of the footage shot by Allied forces during and after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps at the end of World War II. Uncovering layers of context and meaning that were previously inaccessible the platform dynamically links the historical filmic records with photographs, text documents, and oral histories. Ingo Zechner, Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History and project coordinator of the Visual History of the Holocaust project together with Helmut Berger, CEO of Vienna-based company max.recall will present key concepts of the platform and excerpts of its rare filmic content to the Israeli public for the first time. Together with Michael Loebenstein Director of the Austrian Film Museum they will discuss the challenges and potentials presented by the digital curation of this unique and difficult cultural heritage.
Supported by: Cardinal Franz König Chair in Austrian Studies, the Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Visual History of the Holocaust - Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age.
Visual History of the Holocaust - Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822670