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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Collections of the Arolsen Archives
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington is an important partner of the Arolsen Archives at international level. Elizabeth Anthony shows how the institutions structure their cooperation and presents the...
International Library Platform for Education About the Holocaust
Misko Stanisic presents a professional development project for librarians and archivists in Serbia, which the Arolsen Archives have supported by running workshops and giving lectures.
Use of Archival Materials from the Arolsen Archives in My Work as a Specialist at the Academic Center for Oral History of the Voronezh Institute of High Technologies
Olga Kulinchenko describes her impressions and experiences as a participant in the biennial joint Winter School held by the ITS / Arolsen Archives and the Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center in...
Learning with Biographies. Objectives, Opportunities and Limitations of Educational Work with Life Stories and Biographical Fragments about Former Victims of Nazi Persecution
Ingolf Seidel discusses the fundamental opportunities and challenges encountered when working with the biographies of the victims of Nazi persecution in an educational context. He pays special attention to the use...
The Arolsen Archives and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association – Learning from History in Partnership and Friendship
Lilian Black concentrates on the cooperation between the Arolsen Archives and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association in Great Britain. The author writes from the perspective of the daughter of a Holocaust survivor...
“Who is ‘we’?” On the critical analysis of social heterogeneity and the notion of homogeneity in the past and present
Christa Kaletsch and Manuel Glittenberg describe the project titled “Zusammenleben neu gestalten” (“Redesigning the way we live together”) to show how sources from the Arolsen Archives can be used to focus attention on...
The Arolsen Archives – a Very Special Learning Environment
Marcus von der Straten focuses on working with the archival holdings of the Arolsen Archives in connection with research-based learning and describes his experiences as a teacher in the classroom.
The use of person-related documents from the Arolsen Archives in the work of the Max Mannheimer Study Center Dachau
A pilot project for documentED has been carried out in partnership with the Max Mannheimer Study Center in Dachau. Steffen Jost and Nina Ritz share their experiences and describe the added value provided by the project...
Supporting trips to memorial sites on the basis of documents from the Arolsen Archives: the documentED project
Another new enterprise is the documentED project. Teachers and other educators can use the resources it offers to prepare and follow up a visit to a memorial site. Christian Höschler explains how this works...
The e-Guide to the Arolsen Archives: a versatile online tool that can also be used in historical education
Christiane Weber presents the e-Guide, a new tool which enables students in the class room or lecture hall to understand the documents of the Arolsen Archives themselves.