The EU Horizon 2020 project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” (2019–2022) explores the potentials as well as the limitations of digital technologies in the ongoing effort to preserve, analyze and communicate historical evidence of the Holocaust, and in particular audiovisual records. It is coordinated by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Vienna), in close collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna).
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Upcoming and Recent Events
VHH-MMSI: Relaunch der CdH auf der Visual History of the Holocaust Plattform
11.12.2023, 14:15 to 11.12.2023, 16:00
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main
Das EU Horizon 2020 Projekt „Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age (VHH)“ hat die von Ronny Loewy in den 1990er und 200er Jahren aufgebaute Cinematographie des Holocaust (CdH) umfassend bearbeitet.
Vernetzte Bilder: Digitale Zugänge zum audiovisuellen Erbe des Holocaust
11.12.2023, 14:00 to 12.12.2023, 17:45
DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Nach zwölfjähriger Pause startet die von Ronny Loewy gegründete Arbeitsgruppe mit dieser Konferenz neu.
Mapping Atrocity Films: Hybrid Objects, Time Layers, and the Layout of Atrocity Sites
23.10.2023, 10:45 to 23.10.2023, 12:45
Maribor University Library
Developing new approaches towards tangible and intangible cultural heritage was one of the core considerations of rethinking curation in the Visual History of the Holocaust project.
Media Reports
Media Report
Film als Zeuge des Holocaust?
ORF-Radio Ö1, Kulturjournal - Wednesday, 03.05.2023
Radio report by Jakob Fessler as part of the broadcast series “Kulturjournal” on Ö1, the national radio channel of the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation)
Media Report
ZIB 2: Die visuelle Geschichte des Massenmordes
ORF ZIB 2 - Friday, 27.01.2023
TV report by Christian Konrad in ORF's main news show Zeit im Bild 2
Media Report
Wie umgehen mit Bildern des Holocaust?
Der Standard - Friday, 27.01.2023
Newspaper article by Valerie Dirk published in the culture section of the Austrian daily “Der Standard”
Media Report
Kulturzeit extra: Auschwitz und wir – Wie der Shoah gedenken?
3sat - Thursday, 27.01.2022
TV report by Sandra Krieger as part of the broadcast series "Kulturzeit"
Publications
Article
The Impossibility of Simply Moving On: Essay On the Hamas Attack and the Atrocity Images It Generated
Deborah Hartmann, Tobias Ebbrech-Hartmann: The Impossibility of Simply Moving On: Essay On the Hamas Attack and the Atrocity Images It Generated (November 24, 2023). This essay has first been published in German in taz, November 11, 2023 (https://taz.de/Essay-zum-Angriff-der-Hamas/!5967960/). Translation by Jill Kreuer, Vienna.
Its genocidal message with direct links to the Holocaust distinguishes October 7 from previous attacks on Israel.
Deliverable
D1.6 EU Commission Policy Brief: ECCCH – No Cultural Heritage Cloud Without Audiovisual Media
This second out of two Policy Briefs of the VHH Horizon 2020 Innovation Action is entirely dedicated to including the domain-specific needs of film and other audiovisual media in the system design and the governance model of the envisioned European Collaborative Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH) right from its start.
Journal
Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital Technologies
Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Lital Henig: Digital Visual History: Historiographic Curation Using Digital Technologies, in: Rethinking History, vol. 27, no. 2 (March 2023), 159–186.
How can the visual heritage of past events been analyzed through the combination of historiographic practices of curation and digital technologies?
Article
The Auschwitz Tattoo in Visual Memory
Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Noga Stiassny, Fabian Schmidt: The Auschwitz Tattoo in Visual Memory. Mapping Multilayered Relations of a Migrating Image, in: Research in Film and History. Video Essays (November 2022), https://film-history.org/node/1129
Mapping Multilayered Relations of a Migrating Image
