{"id":4488,"date":"2024-08-08T06:29:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T05:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/digitalholocaustmemory\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2024-09-18T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:43:54","slug":"building-a-digital-holocaust-memory-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/digitalholocaustmemory\/2024\/08\/08\/building-a-digital-holocaust-memory-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Digital Holocaust Memory Lab, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Mel Poluck<\/strong>
PR and Comms Manager, Landecker Digital Memory Lab, University of Sussex<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is building a brand-new programme of work ahead of its official launch this autumn. In this week’s blog, we offer the first in a series of behind-the-scenes glimpses into what we’ve done so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is up and running. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a packed programme over the next five years, we\u2019ve already made some important inroads. 
 
It was back in April, at a public lecture in Melbourne that our Director Dr Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden announced that we’d secured funding from the Alfred Landecker Foundation<\/a> to set up a programme focused on sustaining digital Holocaust memory into the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was there for a two-week residency at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum<\/a>, collecting important interviews and walkthroughs for our \u2018living database-archive’ (more on this later). Alongside her public lecture, she co-hosted, with Dr Anna Hirsch (Manager of Collections and Research at the museum), the symposium \u2018Preserving Truth in the Digital Age\u2019.  <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Landecker Digital Memory Lab, based within the University of Sussex\u2019s School of Media, Arts and Humanities is led by Victoria, a world-leading international academic focused on digital Holocaust memory and education.  We build on the solid foundations of her previous Digital Holocaust Memory<\/a> project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, she put together our team: <\/p>\n\n\n\n