The Visual History of the Holocaust Team (the VHH Team) has some 50 dedicated members from various fields of expertise: film experts, historians, curators, developers and others.
The Team
Wolfram Allinger-Csollich (terminated Sep 2020)
Project Management Office (user trials; communication, dissemination and exploitation). The participation of Wolfram Allinger-Csollich in VHH was terminated by September 30, 2020.
rtd services OG (terminated Sep 2020)
Timofey Balin
Researcher (Soviet films and related documents about the Holocaust)
Center for Russian, Central European and Caucasian Studies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Helmut Berger
Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, MAX team leader, developer (development of the VHH-MMSI)
max.recall information systems GmbH
Heinz Berger
Research support and administrative support
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Stephanie Billib
Digital strategies and social media expert, main contact and representative of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Bergen-Belsen Memorial (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten)
Peter Bubestinger-Steindl
Metadata Manager, researcher and developer (development and implementation of the VHH-EFG Metadata Schema)
Austrian Film Museum
Sema Colpan
Project Management, Ethics Manager, Brand Steward
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Christian Dürr
Curatorial expert, main contact and representative of the Mauthausen Memorial
Mauthausen Memorial
Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann
Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, HUJI team leader, researcher (curatorial concept, curation of popular culture content: films)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eleonore Emsbach
Filmographic metadata expert (until November 2020)
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Natalie Filipiak
Editor (filmographic metadata: Cinematography of the Holocaust)
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Ronald Genswaider
Frontend developer (development of the VHH-MMSI and of the VHH Website)
max.recall information systems GmbH
Sarah Gruszka
Researcher (Soviet archives on the Holocaust, mainly textual and audio-visual documents)
Center for Russian, Central European and Caucasian Studies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Gabriele Hammermann
Senior advisor
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten)
Lital Henig
Researcher (curation of popular culture content: graphic novels & films)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kerstin Herlt
Film institutions expert, filmographic metadata expert (Cinematography of the Holocaust)
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
David Kleingers
Digital film platforms expert, filmographic metadata expert (Cinematography of the Holocaust), main contact and representative of DFF
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Albert Knoll
Chief archivist of the Dachau Memorial
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten)
Talia Litvinov
Researcher (curation of popular culture content: literature & scanning) (until October 2020)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael Loebenstein
Deputy Coordinator, Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, OFM team leader
Austrian Film Museum
Kevin Lutz
Development and supervision of digitization and preservation workflows
Austrian Film Museum
Anna Marakasova
PhD student, researcher and developer (automated text analysis) (until January 2022)
TU Wien
Andreas Moser (terminated Sep 2020)
Project Management Office, Work Package Leader, rtds team leader (user trials; communication, dissemination and exploitation). The participation of Andreas Moser in VHH was terminated by September 30, 2020.
rtd services OG (terminated Sep 2020)
Marie Moutier-Bitan
Researcher (Soviet films and related documents about the Holocaust)
Center for Russian, Central European and Caucasian Studies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Bernhard Mühleder
Educator, member of the pedagogic department at the Mauthausen Memorial
Mauthausen Memorial
Vrääth Öhner
Film and media theorist, digitization expert
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Michael Paul
Identifying and managing stakeholders; exploitation and business strategy & planning
Austrian Film Museum
Winfried Pauleit
Film theorist, living archives expert, team leader, main contact and representative of the University of Bremen
University of Bremen
Stefanie Pilzweger-Steiner
Research advisor, main contact and representative of the Dachau Memorial
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Stiftung Bayerische Gedenkstätten)
Valérie Pozner
CERCEC team leader, expert on Soviet film and related documents about the Holocaust, main contact and representative of CERCEC
Center for Russian, Central European and Caucasian Studies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Alexander Prenninger
Researcher, concentration camps expert, Citavi project coordinator
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Robert Sablatnig
Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, TUW-CVL team leader (automated image analysis), main contact and representative of TU Wien
TU Wien
Claudio Santancini
Film digitization expert (digital film processing, Master Film Repository)
Austrian Film Museum
Joachim Schätz
Project Management (until February 2019), Ethics Manager (until February 2019), film expert, advisor
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Michaela Scharf
Editor (VHH Website)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Fabian Schmidt
Researcher (curation of popular culture content: films), closely working with the team at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Bianca Sedmak
Editor (filmographic metadata: Cinematography of the Holocaust)
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
Noga Stiassny
Researcher (curation of popular culture content: art)
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Irina Tcherneva
Researcher (Soviet films and related documents about the Holocaust)
Center for Russian, Central European and Caucasian Studies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Ulrike Weckel
Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, JLU team leader (research of films, photographs, and text documents)
Justus Liebig University Giessen
Ingo Zechner
Project Coordinator, Work Package Leader, member of the Management Board, LBI team leader, researcher
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
Jakob Zenzmaier
Key Researcher (vocabularies, film and text annotation)
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History (Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft)
