Workshop „European Gulag Oral Archives Project“
9.02.2009 – 10.02.2009
11:00
European Gulag Oral Archives ProjectThe starting point of this workshop is an ongoing research on the Europeans’ experience of the Gulag – from the deportation in USSR to the reinsertion into ordinary life after liberation – during and after World War II. This research is being conducted through the collection of life stories and the workshop’s goal is a confrontation with other similar enterprises of oral history in Europe in order to discuss issues of methodology as well as those connected with the diffusion and exploitation of these sources.Number of places limited, so please register at sibylle.auer@cmb.hu-berlin.de.
Programm
European Gulag Oral Archives Project Programme of the Workshop at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin 9 and 10 February 2009 9 February (in English) 9h15 – 13h Alain BLUM, Marta CRAVERI and Catherine GOUSSEFF: Presentation of the European Gulag Oral Archives Project Alexander VON PLATO (Fernuniversität, Hagen): Forced Labour in Europe during the III Reich Ewa BRÜCKER (Denkmal Holocaust Foundation, Berlin): Diffusion and exploitation of Life Stories 14h30 – 18h Aigi RAHI-TAMM (University of Tartu): "The Experience of Deportation in Estonian Life-Stories" Irēna SALENIECE (Daugavpils University, Latvia): "The Population of South-Eastern Latvia during the Deportation of March 25, 1949 in Oral History Sources and Archival Documents"10 February (in French) 9h15 – 12h30 Round table on the first batch of interviews (conducted in Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania) with the participation of Marie-Claire LAVABRE and Nicolas WERTH