Noah Shenker. Reframing Holocaust Testimony.

Chare, Nicholas

doi:10.1093/ahr/122.5.1574

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“…The focus of each interview is mainly on the individual's experiences during the Holocaust which are explored in a broadly chronological order. Each interview -generally of around two hours duration -devotes approximately 20 percent of the time to pre-war life, 60 percent to wartime experiences focused on the events of the Holocaust, and 20 percent to post-war life [34]. In short, these are not full life histories, but more focused interviews asking about wartime experiences across a series of sites of incarceration or hiding.…”

Section: Holocaust Survivors' Testimoniesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

Ezeani,

Rayson,

Gregory

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

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Spatial narratives help us to organize experiences and give them meaning. Previous approaches to understanding geographies in textual sources focus on geoparsing to automatically identify place names and allocate them to coordinates. Those are highly quantitative, and are limited to named places with coordinates, and have little concept of time. Narratives of journeys indicate that human experiences of geography are often subjective and more suited to qualitative representation. Geography is not limited to named places but incorporates the vague, imprecise, and ambiguous, e.g "the camp", or "the hills in the distance", and relative locations such as "near to", "on the left", "north of" or "a few hours' journey from". Places are organized worlds of meaning, characterized by experience, emotion, and memory as well as by geography. In this paper, we discuss our approach to gaining more insight from textual data beyond the toponyms and introduce an extensible framework for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing spatial elements that define the 'locale' as well as the 'sense of place' referenced in text using two test corpora -the Corpus of the Lake District Writing and Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Geographic information systems; Presentation of retrieval results; • General and reference → Experimentation; • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing systems and tools.

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Section: Holocaust Survivors' Testimoniesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

Ezeani,

Rayson,

Gregory

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities

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“…In the first phase of the interview, the interviewer will try to abstain from interrupting the witness. Only in a second phase, when the witness' narration has finished, will the interviewer start asking questions (Jureit 1999;Wierling 2003: 110;Gring and Theilen 2007: 175;Shenker 2015). Again, these questions are meant to guide the witnesses rather than to extract concrete information from them.…”

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The Witness as Object

de Jong

2018

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In recent years, historical witnessing has emerged as a category of "museum object." Audiovisual recordings of interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance are now integral to the collections and research activities of museums. They have also become important components in narrative and exhibition design strategies. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time the new global phenomenon of the "musealization" of the witness to history, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

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“…As evidenced by walkers' documentation, in the feedback and the installation media, Honouring Esther folded our contemporary experience with Esther's testimony to 'generate imaginative and poetic connections'. 85 In such moments on both projects, walkers connected past and present, the distant and the local; a stimulated imagination and the emergence of empathic dialogues were consistent outcomes. Comments…”

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Walking-with, re-membering the Holocaust:Forced Walks: Honouring Esther, a case study of somatic and digital creative practice

White

2021

Holocaust Studies

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The article explores a creative somatic and digital intervention working with Holocaust memory retrieved from archive testimony. A walking and multi-media arts approach renewing agency in Holocaust testimony and generating contemporary resonances is introduced. Forced Walks is a programme of speculative, socially engaged experiments, initiated by artists Richard White and Lorna Brunstein. Honouring Esther , the first Forced Walks project, walked the route of a Nazi Death March digitally transposed to Somerset (UK), subsequently retracing it in Lower Saxony, Germany. The project worked with the digitised testimonies of survivors and witnesses including that of the eponymous Esther. Making public anniversaries personal and personal anniversaries public, the first walk took place on the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Belsen, and the second on the seventy-first of Esther's arrival at the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Juxtaposing registers of walking and curated interventions generated empathic dialogues, the project engaged walkers in co-creating an immanent reflective space materialised in mark-making, social media and installation. The paper reviews the use of mobile media and social networking, and discusses the catalysing of affect and involuntary thought. An emergent hybrid somatic/digital process, 'making the return' in a specific Holocaust context is presented.

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Noah Shenker. Reframing Holocaust Testimony.

Cited by 3 publications

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Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

Towards an Extensible Framework for Understanding Spatial Narratives

The Witness as Object

Walking-with, re-membering the Holocaust:Forced Walks: Honouring Esther, a case study of somatic and digital creative practice

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