Category Archives: Memory

The Times of Israel: At Westerbork, virtual reality simulations.

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At Westerbork, Netherlands ” With almost nothing remaining of the former Nazi transit camp Westerbork, visitors are turning to a simulation that “recreates” the site of Holocaust-era incarceration using virtual reality”

read more at The Times of Israel  

Westerbork exhibition

Westerbork, virtual reality simulations ‘recreate’ the Nazi transit camp.

iC-Access: Accessing campscapes

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iC-access is a HERA funded project (2016-2019 Humanities European Research Area) meant to open global reflections on the past towards a more inclusive awareness of interdependencies, exchanges and communication of historical interpretations and memorial practices in the 20th century. see more at http://www.campscapes.org/

The consortium members are:

  • University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  • Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
  • University of West-Bohemia, Czech Republic
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

iC-ACCESS

Der Tages Spiegel

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The British Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

During her visit to the Bergen Belsen Memorial, she listened while Prof. Paul Verschure (SPECS-lab, ICREA, Barcelona) demonstrated an app that shows what the concentration camp once looked like.

Queen Elisabeth

see more at Der Tages Spiegel