Historical Sources Regarding History Education

Giving Holocaust Survivors a Digital Voice in the World

TU Chemnitz and LMU Munich • Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Go to resource

Individual Resource

Levels and forms of education

Museum Memorials and Exhibitions

Media

Resource type

Audio-visual materials (photographs, videos, movies, audio files)

Digital tools (e.g. video games, quizzes, etc.)

Historic approaches concerned

Cultural History

Global History

Local History

Military History

Political History

Social History

Transnational History

Other Approaches

Historic period

Second World War

1945-2000

21st Century

Countries or areas concerned

Europe

Languages

English, German

Description

Researchers at TU Chemnitz and LMU Munich have developed a chatbot that can be used to learn more about the Holocaust – the interactive online testimonies of Abba Naor, Eva Umlauf and Zilli Schmidt, who were persecuted as Jews or Sinti and Roma enable users to have individual digital conversations with Holocaust survivors in English. With every year that passes, fewer witnesses can tell us about their personal experience of the horrors of the Second World War. That is why the project LediZ (Learning with Digital Testimonies) has developed new interactive digital media that conserve the memories of Holocaust survivors and make these available through the project’s website.

Keywords

Holocaust Education

Testimonies

Remembrance

Shoah

Digital History

Teaching Difficult History