EHRI Workshop | Holocaust Places and Spaces as Data | Challenges and Best Practices

With the growing interest in Holocaust geographies, researchers, projects and/or educators increasingly work and struggle with data representing the places and spaces of Holocaust history. We invite researchers creating and using geospatial data in the field of Holocaust studies to submit their application for the international EHRI workshop Holocaust Places and Spaces as Data: Challenges and Best Practices. The workshop aims to share experience and discuss practical challenges many projects working with spatial data encounter. At the same time, we want to reflect on broader heuristic, epistemological and ethical issues triggered by turning places into data.

Date: 28.-30. 10. 2024

Venue: Oskar Ziegler Villa, University of Lodz, Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 11

Schedule:

Monday 28/09/2023

9.00-9.30: Welcome (Hotel lobby, Kościuszki 16)
10.00-12.00: Guided tour around former ghetto area and Radegast station, part 1 (Adam Sitarek, Center for Jewish Research, Lodz)
12.00-13.30: I round of presentations (Dialogue Center, Wojska Polskiego 83)

– Izabela Terela/Konrad Niciński/Agnieszka Zalotyńska (Institute of Litterature Studies PAN/Lodz University); Work-in-progress presentation: Atlas of Holocaust Literature. Warszawa/Łódź (DH Project)

– Abigail Zola: Uncovering Emotional Contamination: Redefining the Process of Site Specific Architecture

– Tadeusz Pupar (Lodz University): Morphological Transformations of Former Ghetto Area in Lodz
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.00: Guided tour around former ghetto area and Radegast station, part 2 (Adam Sitarek, Center for Jewish Research, Lodz)
16.00-16.30: Coffee break (Sklodowskiej 11)
16.30-18.00: Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences), Impossible Geography. Mapping the No Man’s Land and the Limits of Coordinates (keynote)

Tuesday 29/10/2024, Sklodowskiej 11

9.00-11.00: II round of presentations

– Nadia Skokova (Center for Urban History, Lviv), Lviv Ghetto: Mapping the Erased Human Lives and Their Survival Strategies within the Extreme Violence System

– Wolfgang Schellenbacher (DÖW, Vienna), Mapping the Holocaust in Vienna: Using an Online Tool to Analyze Geo-Referenced Mass Data

– Tim Buchen/Daniel Ljunggren (Univeristy of Gothenburg/ University of Wroclaw), Mapping Breslau’s Jewish Community: a Spatio-temporal Research Environment to Visualize and Analyse the Fate of 17 000 Community Members 1933-1950
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-13.00: Discussion: What is in a Dataset? Challenges of Data, Standards and Tools
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-16.00: III round of presenations

– Joanna Spyra (University of Huddersfield), Creating ‘Memory Maps’ in/of Trawniki – Renata Masna/Michal Chojak (Yahad In-Unum), Turning a field investigation into a digital map: challenges and practices
16.00-16.30: Coffee break
18.30 – Dinner

Wednesday 30/10/2024, Sklodowskiej 11

9.30-11.00: IV round of presentations – Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska/Tomasz Panecki (German Historical Institute Warsaw/Institute of History PAN); Mapping Holocaust Mass Graves in the General Government

– Ildikó Barna/Eszter Katona (ELTE University); Visualizing Deportation: Interactive Maps of Hungarian Jewish Holocaust Survivors – Challenges and Proposed Solutions
10.30-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-13.00: Discussion: Mapping uncertainty. Trajectories and movement, relations and emotions as data
13.00-13.30: Final discussion
13.30-14.00: Lunch