To save the stories of witnesses of German history from the First world war until today, has launched the “Foundation house of history” a new Portal. Approximately 12,000 Interviews could be there in the future.
In the “time-witnesses-Portal” provides the Foundation house of history from now on, Interviews with numerous witnesses, from different eras. There are reports from the First world war to the present.
A stated aim is to capture the Interviews, which were recorded by Video and Audio of memorials or other, systematically, to secure and make it accessible. Thus, the stocks from 62 institutions, which are funded by state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters could be transferred in the Portal. The witness-archive is an Initiative of the Secretary of state for Culture, the ready set for the project half a Million euros.
“Source and representation of history”
The Deputy head of the Bonn-based Foundation “house of history”, Harald Biermann, summed it up this way: “This is a quote, and we are the service.” Especially in the case of the memorial sites on national socialism movie, there is a risk to disintegrate the image documents in many cases. The records should be digitized and in this way saved, he explained. “Witnesses-Interviews are at the same time source as well as representation of history.” You could give information as to how different history and processed will know.
Both memorial sites of former concentration camps as well as facilities for the SED must report their holdings and make it available.
Up to 12,000 Interviews
So far, 1000 Interviews of the Association “memory of the Nation are on the Portal”are available, spread over a total of 8000 Clips. In the future more will be added, up to 12,000 could be. In addition, there is now Material from the archive of the ZDF, which includes about 40 Interviews with important personalities of German history. The Interviews are over, the headings “time”, “subjects” and “persons” in the accessible and allow users with a specific selection of a particular witness, subject or time period. No matter whether students, teachers, students, researchers or simply those interested in history – the Portal is clearly structured, so that everyone can inform.
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