New EHRI Document Blogs
The following EHRI Document Blogs were recenly published:
Recognising the ‘Anonymous’ Resistors: Everyday Heroes in Occupied Hungary by Barnabas Balint (University of Exeter) focuses on ordinary people outside of resistance organisations who helped their friends, neighbours, and acquaintances as ‘anonymous’ resistors in Hungary and looks into the challenges they had to overcome.
Transports from Mechelen by Laurence Schram and Veerle Vanden Daelen from Kazerne Dossin explains how a series of online publications to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti to the East from Kazerne Dossin led to a renewed understanding of the magnitude of the mass transportation of thousands of people.
Re-Germanization” and the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle Camps: The Geography of Expulsion by Judith Haran (Nuremberg Project at Harvard Law School) looks at documents from Trial 8 at Nuremberg, the “RuSHA Trial” of 1947-48,on Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi).
Using Named Entity Recognition to Enhance Access to a Museum Catalog by Ivelina Nikolova (ONTOTEXT) and Michael Levy (USHMM) discusses how applicable services for automatic extraction of person names and locations are to oral history transcripts with the aim of enhancing access to a museum catalog.
Wartime Diary, Correspondence across Ghetto Walls, and Sharing Data with EHRI Katja Grosse-Sommer in her blog post writes about the wartime diary of a young couple from Amsterdam that was forced into hiding in September 1942. In the second blog post, Magdalena Sedlická looks at both official correspondence and illegal letters leaving the Terezin ghetto to reveal the two different faces of the ghetto. The third blog post uses the example of a photograph of Holocaust victim Rosine Régine Lewkowicz, to show how Kazerne Dossin worked together with EHRI to produce standardised archival collection descriptions.
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