Zuzanna Dziuban, Cord Pagenstecher:
Campscapes in and through Testimonies: New Approaches to Researching and Representing Oral History Interviews in Memorial Museums,
in: Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal, 2022 (in Vorbereitung)
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In this paper, we dwell on the possibilities created by this tension between authoritative museal and political narratives about the past and the transformative potential of the (always selectively used) personal accounts of victims, focusing on several European campscapes. Based on research carried out at the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) within the framework of the HERA-funded project Accessing Campscapes: Inclusive Strategies for Using European Conflicted Heritage, this paper offers a glimpse into a systematic analysis of the ways in which audio and video survivors’ testimonies are being employed in historical research, memory studies, private and public institutions, complemented by the critical examination of the historical, social and political contexts of their collection, archiving, research and display. The paper presents and contextualizes two research tools developed within the framework of the project: the Campscapes Testimony Catalogue, a new directory of oral history interviews devoted to selected camps covered within the scope of the project; and the online environment Remembering Westerbork: Learning with Interviews – a prototype of an online display environment presenting survivors’ experiences to today’s visitors in an exemplary memorial that opens up, expands and complexifies the paradigmatic narrative offered by the campscape at the on-site exhibition.
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