November 2024 – Digital Holocaust Memory

Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View

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By Alex Sessa In 2025, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab will launch the world’s first ‘living database-archive’: a perpetual, searchable resource of the world’s digital Holocaust education and commemoration initiatives. As we embark on this monumental project, read about the linguistic and ethical challenges this task brings from the view of our historian-indexer. We liveContinue reading “Indexing the World’s Digital Holocaust Projects: the Historian’s View”

AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education

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By Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden At a conference in Bucharest last week, our Lab Director Prof Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden presented our position on the extent to which we should be engaging with AI for the sake of Holocaust education. I was invited by the US State Department to contribute to a panel called ‘Holocaust DenialContinue reading “AI, Holocaust Distortion and Education”