Author(s): Dannie Snyder (2018) – last update: 2018-06-21. The University College of London’s (UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library holds over 200 archive collections. Most of them are fairly small collections, many contain material in a Slavonic language and quite a few contain or consist solely of photographs. All of the collections […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Dannie Snyder (2018) – last update: 2018-05-17. The Visual History Archive is an online portal from USC Shoah Foundation that allows users to search through and view 55,000 audiovisual testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides that have been catalogued and indexed at the Institute. These testimonies were conducted in […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Ariane Dreisbach (2018) – last update: 2018-05-16. The archive of the Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas (IKGS) [Institute for German Culture and History in Southeastern Europe] documents the work of numerous writers, journalists and scientists from Central and Southeastern Europe, especially from Romania, Hungary and, of course, Germany. The archive’s focus […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016) – last update: 2018-04-19. Founded by Herbert Hoover in 1919, the Hoover Institution Library & Archives are dedicated to documenting war, revolution and peace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With nearly one million volumes and more than six thousand archival collections from 171 countries, Hoover supports a vibrant community of […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Katalin Cseh-Varga (2016) – last update: 2018-04-19. The idea behind the Artpool project is to create an “ACTIVE ARCHIVE” built on specific artistic activities. This differs from traditional archival practices in that the “ACTIVE ARCHIVE” does not only collect material already existing ‘out there’, but it also generates the very material to be archived. […]
Continue reading →Author(s): Carolin Piorun (2018) – last update: 2018-04-19. The Archives of the International Tracing Service (ITS) hold over 30 million documents with information on the fates of victims of Nazi persecution: incarceration, forced labour and post-war Allied assistance to Displaced Persons is documented here. Since 2013, the original collections are part of the UNESCO-“Memory of […]
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