October 2024 – Digital Holocaust Memory

Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial

A young lady wears a white VR headset, with the Lipke Bunker text and some old photos and papers projected on the wooden wall behind her.

By Dr Kate Marrison In this long-form series, we offer a deep dive introduction to digital projects at a Holocaust organisation. Our spotlight institutions will feature in our upcoming living database-archive. The journey to the Žanis Lipke Memorial took us on-foot over the Vanšu Bridge, which crosses the Daugava River, in Riga. A quick online searchContinue reading “Spotlight on Žanis Lipke Memorial”

Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development

The words Experimental, Normative, and Connective are lined with arrows with blurred merged images of digital projects as the background.

By Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Through artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing, digitisation, VR, AR and computer games, we take you on a tour of some of the world’s most prolific digital Holocaust memory initiatives by way of the theory of the ‘three stages’ of development. To argue that there are three phases of digital HolocaustContinue reading “Three Phases of Digital Holocaust Memory Development”

‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory

Hashtag TARTU2024 statue in the middle of a street.

By Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden There is a tension between digital innovation and presenting difficult, sensitive and traumatic histories and memories. Here we report on the impact of the workshop we held in Tartu, Estonia, encouraging museum practitioners to consider how to navigate this tension. We were grateful to be invited to contribute to theContinue reading “‘Momentum’ 2024: Advancing Digital Innovation in Memory”