2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of many Nazi concentration camps and the end of WWII. From March, major commemorations planned to be held onsite and in-person were rapidly moved online. Amidst all of the challenges the Covid-19 Pandemic has presented museums, this shift to digital commemoration offers a unique opportunity for us to archive these events for the first time. This blog post considers what it might mean to archive a (digital) event.
Yearly Archives: 2020
“I’m a Holocaust survivor and…” : reflections on the USHMM ‘Next Chapter’ video series
This week’s blog from guest contributor Lauren Cantillon asks how do the videos broaden our ideas of the ‘Holocaust survivor’ figure, while also offering a vision for creating a connective digital Holocaust memory?
Digital Holocaust Memory – Online Discussion
On Wednesday 15th July, we invited a series of academics who work on digital Holocaust memory in different ways toContinue reading “Digital Holocaust Memory – Online Discussion”
Reading about Digital Holocaust Memory
A reading list for those interested in exploring the topic further.
Anne Frank Virtual Tour of Bergen-Belsen
A critical walkthrough of an Anne Frank-themed tour of the Bergen-Belsen memorial site.
Statues, Memory and the Digital
Reflections on Holocaust countermonuments, #RhodesMustFall and the potential of hyperconnective memory as resistance to the fixity of statues.
Holocaust Memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic An Online Roundtable
If you missed Digital Holocaust Memory’s first webinar on ‘Holocaust memory during the Covid-19 Pandemic’ you can catchup on it here.
Hunters – Amazon’s fictional Jewish Nazi-hunters
60 years after Mossad agents captured Adolph Eichmann and took him to Israel to stand trial, I look at the controversy about Amazon’s new series ‘Hunters’.
VE Day: Websites/ Physical Sites: 75 Years since the End of World War II
What might we learn from this year’s online-only commemorations in terms of how we might modify or augment future events with technology?
Implications of Physical Distancing for Commemoration
Following my previous blog which interrogated the significance of interactivity, virtuality and immersion to digital Holocaust memory, today, I explore another term that is often used to describe the digital – immateriality – and think about it in relation to recent commemorative events during the Covid-19 Pandemic, which of course could only take place online.