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The Digital Holocaust Memory Project

More than a decade ago, James E. Young acknowledged a shift that was beginning: from the Holocaust as ‘living memory’ to ‘mediated memory’. It is fair to say that as we face a sad, but impending future without survivors to share their stories that this mediated memory will be predominately a ‘digital Holocaust memory’.

Restrictions imposed on institutions due to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic forced online major commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps, and the end of World War II.

Furthermore, as Holocaust museums and archives discover and experiment with emerging technologies, the digital memoryscape expands, enfolding amateur produsers, digital creators, and an increasing force of counter-memory in the forms of neo-Nazism, and Holocaust denial and distortion online.

It is this context that this project wishes to explore. The Digital Holocaust Memory project includes three threads:

1. Mapping the digital Holocaust memoryscape, from institutional to amateur projects
2. Exploring the ‘newness’ of digital Holocaust memory
3. Establishing a network of heritage and archive professionals, academics, amateur and professional media producers, and digital audiences/users to explore potential digital futures for Holocaust memory

You can find out more about the project leader Victoria Grace Walden here

If you are interested in collaborating, do get in touch!