Digital History and Memory - Update December 19th

News links, articles and recommendations compiled by Steffen Jost

Dear Readers,

As we approach the end of the year, I have the final round-up of all things #DigitalMemory for you. I'll be taking a break for the next few weeks and will be back in January. As always, I welcome suggestions for relevant articles, projects and links.

I ended the year with a trip to Münster where I spoke about memorial sites in digital spaces and I am still thinking about a question I got about the importance of authenticity in digital projects. I think there is definitely a lot to explore, especially with the rise of AI-generated content. The week before I had the honor to speak at the launch of the digital memory game "Remembering. The Children of Bullenhuser Damm" that the Alfred Landecker Foundation founded. If you haven't tried it yet, please download it as soon as possible!

➡️ https://t1p.de/ws3ek

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The second episode of the Heinrich Böll Foundation's podcast "We Remember" focuses on memorial sites. Dr. Clara Maddalena Frysztacka and Lukasz Tomaszewski speak with Andrea Genest, Director of the Ravensbrück Memorial, and Susann Lewerenz, Head of Education at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. ➡️ https://t1p.de/r6waq

After more than three years, "The Darkest Files" finally has a release date. Paintbucket Games tackles the story of Fritz Bauer in this new title. You can already add it to your Steam wishlist. ➡️ https://t1p.de/0wf2z

The "Memorium Nuremberg Trials" is developing "Playing History," a serious game about the Nuremberg Trials. The project, funded by the Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ), has now begun. ➡️ https://t1p.de/1vd5n

Playing History is also developing a game about escape and emigration from the GDR, focusing on the Notaufnahmelager Gießen. ➡️ https://t1p.de/l5xgu

Lucas Haasis and his students have developed a board game based on the "Price Papers." The making-of and teaching concept are now available online. ➡️ https://t1p.de/me9wt

The IfZ has launched Zeitgeschichte Open, an OA repository. More than 1,000 publications can be found there, including the volumes of "The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933-1945" ➡️ https://open.ifz-muenchen.de/home

The Network for Impactful Digital International Teaching Skills has published a digital self-learning module "Virtual Reality in Higher Education." ➡️ https://t1p.de/fipgs

The latest issue of Memory Studies Review (OA) focuses on "AI and collective memory." Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden and Mykola contributed an article on "Imagining Human-AI Memory Symbiosis: How Re-Remembering the History of Artificial Intelligence Can Inform the Future of Collective Memory." ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dKSRsynq

The Landecker Digital Memory Lab has published a policy briefing on AI and Holocaust memory. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e_nSyZSQ

Last week in Münster, I had the pleasure of meeting Ricarda Singh, whose master's thesis on Sophie Scholl was recently published as a book: "Imagine it's 1942 on Instagram..." Analysis of the controversy surrounding the channel ichbinsophiescholl." ➡️ https://t1p.de/v7vb0

Educational materials are now available for the project "Ask Away! Digital Interactive Interviews with Time Witnesses of Exile and the Shoah" (including Sylvia Asmus). ➡️ https://fragnach.org/materialien/

The Belarus Shtetl project, running since 2020, is digitally reconstructing several synagogues in Belarus. The Great Synagogue in Volga is now available as a digital reconstruction, including VR versions. ➡️ https://t1p.de/afc6j