1 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Testimonies on Nazi Forced Labor and the Holocaust Building Digital Environments for Research and Education Dr. Cord Pagenstecher (Freie Universität Berlin)

2 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Testimonies in Digital Environments “This costs me a lot of nerves and pain, but I see it as my duty. Because there are fewer and fewer survivors, and testimonies and records are needed for other people and other generations.” (Helena Bohle-Szacki, “Forced Labor ”, za072)

3 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) Testimonies in Digital Environments Three Interview Collections with Educational Material 600 interviews transcribed, translated, indexed interviews indexed, 950 transcribed 150 interviews, transcribed

4 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) Testimonies in Digital Environments Three Interview Collections with Educational Material Transcriptions, Translations, Annotations Online Archive (Backend and Frontend) DVD and Teachers‘ Manual 2016: Learning Environment and Teacher Trainings Transcriptions and Platform Students‘ Project Days, DVD Series, Teacher Trainings 2016: Learning Environment with Other Archives Integration in Library Catalogue Cooperation with FernUniversität Hagen: Online-Archiv „Deutsches Gedächtnis“ Interview Project on Remembering the German occupation in Greece

5 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Webseite Zwangsarbeit

6 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher The Interview Collection Zwangsarbeit Interviews à 3,5 hours 25 Languages (120 Russian, 70 Polish, 40 Czech, 40 English) Transcripts à 80 pages without detailed guidelines 400 German translations Sentence-based time-code segmentation of transcripts and translations Sentece-based indexing (camps, companies, places, eprsons) Subtitles and PDF files online, xml files intern

7 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Registration Access within two days archiv.de

8 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Interview Selection by Categories

9 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Subtitles and Full Text Search Revolving subtitles in the original language and in German

10 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Table of Contents Narrative Structure with Clickable Chapters

11 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit User‘s Workbook Save searches, tag interviews

12 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Mapping: Birth places, Camps, Companies Geocoding, Visualisation

13 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Identifying Camps and Companies … in Karlsruhe kamen wir in eine Munitionsfabrik…

14 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Backend Editing Software – Workflow Management

15 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Backend Editing Software – Tables of Contents, Indexing, Annotations

16 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Zwangsarbeit Five biographical short films (25 minutes) Two background films (Forced Labor, Interviews) Student activities with interaktive editor Time line, glossary, methodical tipps Teachers‘ book Learning Software, 2010

17 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Lernen mit Interviews

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19 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Educational Programs and Cooperations Memorial Museums Traveling Exhibition Smartphone App

20 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Perspectives Connecting Interview Archives Network of European Interview Collections Enhancing Methods and Tools Curating and Analyzing

21 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Network of European Interview Collections Aims Find collections Search across collections Analyze collections Preserve collections Enhance collections Create collections

22 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Curating and Analyzing Curating Automatic Speech Recognition -> Dirty Transcripts, Full Text Search Alignment -> Time-coding transcripts with audio files Automatic Translation -> Managing Multilinguality Named Entity Recognition -> Indexing places, persons, camps etc. Identifying speakers, silences, gestures, … -> Multimodal Dialogue Analyzing Memory patterns Narrative patterns Interview settings Gendered patterns Options and Ideas

23 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Interviews in different years Memory Patterns Jürgen Bassfreund, 1946 (audio) -> Jack Bass, 1995 (video)

24 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Using the word „Slave Labor“ / „Slavery“ Narrative Patterns Short film „War Zwangsarbeit Sklaverei?“, archiv.de/zwangsarbeit/ereignisse/sklavenarbeit- video/index.html, Minute 01:00 bis 01:45 archiv.de/zwangsarbeit/ereignisse/sklavenarbeit- video/index.html

25 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Bereich multimediale Archive Center für Digitale Systeme (CeDiS) „Sklav*“ used in 136 interviews (translations)

26 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Testimony as dialogue with the Interviewer Interview Setting Narration or Question & Answer? Number and kind of speaker changes? …

27 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Experiences – Memories – Narrations Gendered Patterns e.g. regarding „sabotage“

28 Dr. Cord Pagenstecher Multimedia Archives Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) Thank you!