We’re pleased to announce the launch of our innovative publishing platform Digital Memory Dialogues. To move work forward in the domain of digital Holocaust memory, it is crucial we work across disciplines and sectors. Computer scientists, media theorists, historians, educators, curators, archivists, digital designers, project managers, programmers and software developers all need to come together. Digital Memory Dialogues creates a space for this in the spirit of the academic tradition of dialectics: to introduce a difference (dia) into discourse (logos). To seek truth from the in-between spaces that emerge when different voices, expertise, disciplines and perspectives come into conversation with one another. Dialogues is different to other publishing spaces because it foregrounds conversation. Each series or ‘Dialogue’ is structured by a provocation piece written by one of our editorial team or a guest editor, to which a selection of contributors are invited to respond. The conversation then grows through the peer review process, with each contributor reviewing the others’ work, before the discussion is opened up to a public audience at a live event. Today, we launch Dialogue I – Computer Games with the provocation piece entitled: ‘Can the Holocaust be Made Playable?’ In the coming weeks, this provocation will [...]

If you represent an organisation or project dedicated to Holocaust memory, integrating digital media in your work, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab wants to hear from you. The Lab aims to ensure a sustainable future for Holocaust memory in the digital age through rigorous research and inter-sector dialogue between today’s ‘memory makers,’ as living memory fades. The results of the survey will inform a global map of digital Holocaust memory initiatives including virtual or mixed reality projects to online exhibitions, computer games, social media, AI and digital integrations in exhibition spaces. Understanding this landscape will help us to prepare fieldwork to track, share and archive digital Holocaust memory projects, and capture interviews with those involved in developing them (read examples of this work in our Spotlight blogs). It will also feed into our wider research on what digital Holocaust memory looks like at a global scale. We are asking contributors to submit their input through this online survey which asks questions about: On-site and online digital media and projects. What social media channels you use. Changes in visibility of Holocaust distortion and denial via online channels. Digital strategy and capacity. Access the survey here: https://universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41pxL14ImeECH78  If you have any questions, please [...]

Lab Director Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden took part in a lively Q&A discussion with Jewish Film Festival founder and President Judy Ironside MBE at University of Sussex’s recent Holocaust Memorial Day event. The discussion focused on a screening of Letter to a Pig, an Oscar-nominated Israeli-French short film about intergenerational trauma that mixes live-action footage with 2d computer animation, painting, photography and rotoscoping. The making of the film, by director Tal Kantor, is available freely on YouTube. Watch the discussion and Q&A (begins at 2 minutes, 42 seconds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5kHgGcxBVM Before the Q&A, Holocaust survivor Peter Summerfield BEM gave an incredibly moving testimony about life under Nazi Germany and his escape to the UK. Watch a recording of Peter Summerfield’s testimony. Vice Chancellor Sasha Roseneil opened the event which was held at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) and hosted by the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies and The Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) here at University of Sussex on 5 February 2025.