Lecture: Digitising the Holocaust

For the project: Co-Creating Guidelines for Digital Interventions in Holocaust Memory and Education, Dr Victoria Grace Walden and Dr Kate Marrison (University of Sussex) worked with an international array of project partners and more than 100 participants to develop a series of recommendations reports through participatory workshops on six themes: AI and machine learning; digitising material evidence: recording, recirculating and remixing testimony; social media; computer games; and virtualising memoryscapes. The first four reports were published on Holocaust Memorial Day this year and can be accessed for free via the Digital Holocaust Memory website.

This presentation will highlight some of the recommendations suggested by participants throughout the first four workshops and outline our action plan moving forward.

About Dr Kate Marrison:

Dr Kate Marrison is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, where she is currently leading a digital Holocaust education project. Prior to this, Kate worked as a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Leeds, where she also completed her PhD project titled Digital Witnessing: Towards Holocaust Memory Practice in a Post-Survivor Age.

Emerging at the intersection between Holocaust studies and media theory, Kate’s research explores new media technologies such as AR, VR, interactive 3-dimensional testimony installations and video games. Her most recent work has been published within Jewish Film and New Media and has contributed to the edited volumes, Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research (Walden, 2021) and Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums (Popescu, 2023).