GeoBib – Early German and Polish Holocaust and Camp Literature (1933-1949)

Project manager

Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung – Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

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Co-operation partner

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

https://www.uni-giessen.de/

Co-operation partner

Arbeitsstelle Holocaustliteratur

Project manager

Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger GND

Project manager

Dr. Jürgen Warmbrunn GND

juergen.warmbrunn@herder-institut.de

Researcher

Annalena Schmidt

Funding body

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

https://www.bmbf.de/

Laufzeit

2012 - 2015

The Holocaust and its remembrance are central topics of historical research because they are still of great importance for politics and the public. In the near future, there will not be any surviving victims of the Nazi
crimes left – the first texts which have been written and published during the Nazi reign or the first years after the war will cease to be a part of the common and cultural memory or they had never been part of it in the first place.

For this reason, this BMBF funded „eHumanities“ project will make the early German and Polish Holocaust literature accessible for the public. The project will cover the works published between 1933 and 1949. The literary works provided in the online database will be supplemented by further information, for example names of persons and locations, information about the author, the reception of the works and about the location of the sources in different libraries. The cartographic realisation of the project helps to recognize the works’ focus in terms of location, time and language. In this annotated and georeferenced project, the supplemented bibliographical information will be made accessible for future scientific research as well as for teaching at universities and schools or for memorials.

The project is carried out in cooperation with four partners from the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. These partners are: Arbeitsstelle Holocaustliteratur, Department of Geography/ Section for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Centre for Media and Interactivity, Department of German Studies/ Section for Applied Linguistics and Computer Linguistics

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