Digital History and Memory - Update February 14th
News links, articles and recommendations compiled by Steffen Jost
Dear Readers,
The news in the field of #DigitalMemory certainly hasn't stopped coming in the last two weeks. Among my findings are several new digital games and interactive graphic novels. There have been so many mobile digital remembrance games released in the last year that I haven't had the chance to play all of them.
On a more personal note: Last week, I started working at the Jewish Museum Berlin as the head of Digital & Publishing. Right now I am familiarizing myself with the digital and analog work of the institution and its fantastic team. In the future, I will present some digital projects in this newsletter as well. Until then, I can only recommend following the Jewish Museum Berlin's social media accounts (Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn). Because soon, a new digital project on jewish history and culture will celebrate its premiere, and what I've seen so far looks amazing.
You should also check out the museum's YouTube channel, which features a fantastic cooking show with a cute blue-haired protagonist called "Glückel aus der Schüssel." Many more people (and not only kids) should watch this!
As always, please connect with me on LinkedIn. In the meantime I hope to give you enough interesting things to read, watch and experience with these new discoveries.
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Enjoy reading these new discoveries
The anthology "Technology Meets Testimony. Digital Pathways to Holocaust Survivors' Biographies" by Anja Balis, Florian Duda, and Markus Gloe has just been published. With contributions from Sylvia Asmus, Johannes Barth, Sascha Feucher, and others. ➡️ https://t1p.de/vlvmd
The Max Mannheimer Study Center in Dachau has produced an interactive graphic novel about the life of its namesake, which will soon be available for iOS and Android. ➡️ https://t1p.de/2l21a
I'm particularly excited that "The Ilios Experiment" will be released soon. The Kreuzberger Initiative gegen Antisemitismus (KIgA), together with developer Playing History, has created an outstanding mobile game about tolerance and political agency. ➡️ https://t1p.de/w1x2n
If you are in Berlin next week, join the team for the official launch party on the 20th of Februrary. For the occasion KIgA is hosting a panel on “Saving democracy with games"?”. ➡️https://t1p.de/u8ijj
The Documentation Center on National Socialism in Freiburg (with Julia Wolrab, my former volunteer Elmira Detscher, and team) has released "FreiBuddy." This is a mobile AR game about Jewish life in Freiburg. ➡️ https://t1p.de/n9yx4
A teacher's guide, overseen by Lucas Basis, has now been published for the digital remembrance game "Remember. The Children of Bullenhuser Damm." ➡️ https://t1p.de/jk3i1
In January, the ARTE program Twist published an episode on "Holocaust digital: How will we remember in the future?" featuring, among others, a portrait of Gidon Lev. ➡️ https://t1p.de/zwbt4
NDR has produced a short video about the Instagram and TikTok activities of Lilith Roska and Gina Wiedemann at the Arolsen Archives. ➡️ https://t1p.de/1ib6n
Another piece about social media work at the Neuengamme Memorial has been published under the title "TikToks in the concentration camp: How the Holocaust is remembered in Neuengamme." ➡️ https://t1p.de/ke6cu
At FIZ Karlsruhe, a prototype for a digital "Portal on Right-Wing Violence" is being developed until spring 2026. ➡️ https://t1p.de/dmdii
Back in 2012, an app about Jewish history in Oświęcim was published. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden takes a look at this pioneering application on the Landecker Digital Memory Lab blog. ➡️ https://t1p.de/ouj