Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
The FNR-DFG Project VOICES FROM AUSCHWITZ (C²DH, Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, University of Southern California), in collaboration with the Digital Interview Collections of Free University Berlin, is organising an international conference on Holocaust testimonies.
Specifically, the conference will be dedicated to the Visual History Archive of Holocaust Testimonies by the USC Shoah Foundation.
The conference will reflect on the achievements and developments in the field of Holocaust Studies over the past two decades. It will address the current phase of profound technological transformation that coincides with the end of firsthand survivor testimony of the Nazi era. This shift poses complex strategic and ethical challenges for Holocaust research, education, and remembrance. How should we respond to the fact that survivors can now share their experiences in person only in exceptional cases? What significance do videotaped testimonies hold in this context? And how should we assess new digital formats, such as interactive testimonies that simulate dialogic encounters with survivors?