The EU-funded “Horizon 2020” research project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” (VHH) explores the potential, as well as the limitations, of digital technologies in the ongoing effort to preserve, analyze, and communicate historical evidence of the Holocaust. Particularly, it focuses on the audiovisual records of the liberation of the Nazi camps and the discovery of other atrocity sites by the Allied forces. This article introduces the international project to the Israeli research community, reviewing the project’s multimodal curatorial approach and discussing the different levels of engagement the project offers users. A special emphasis is placed on the scholarly work of the research team at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
A Visual History of the Holocaust: Project Overview
The migration of images produces a multi-layeredness that has implications for the way Holocaust memory exists in the visual space. This article introduces how the project “Visual History of the Holocaust: Rethinking Curation in the Digital Age” responds to it.
