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Landecker Digital Memory Lab
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Research lab dedicated to the sustainability of Holocaust memory in the digital age.

We explore all things XR, AI, social media, computer games and digital heritage in the context of memory and education of this past.

www.digitalmemorylab.com
Last chance to sign up! This Thursday 13 November we're running the final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database (12-2pm GMT (UTC 0)). Register now:
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database!
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In case you missed it...Read our latest blog on the European Memory Data Space project, Europe's Innovative Ecosystem for Holocaust-related data, through an interview with Pavel Kats, Executive Director of the Jewish Heritage Network. www.digitalmemorylab...
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Last few days to register! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform.
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
During our international Expo event, we ran a mini hack bringing together exerts from the gaming, history, film, VR, EdTech, AI and academic sectors. Watch a summary of what happened and hear what cross-sector, international participants thought about it at the end.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Read our latest blog on the European Memory Data Space project, Europe's Innovative Ecosystem for Holocaust-related data, through an interview with Pavel Kats, Executive Director of the Jewish Heritage Network.
Digital data spaces: the future of European Holocaust data?
What is a data space and what are the preconceptions around them? Our Lab Director interviews Pavel Kats, Coordinator of the European Memory Data Space Blueprint project and discovers why the data space movement is at a critical point and crucially, why Europe needs a data ecosystem dedicated to Holocaust memory. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden: What is
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November 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
We're inviting international Holocaust projects to tell us their experiences of using digital media. The results will help us to identify key areas where professionals working in the Holocaust memory sector need support.

Fill in the questionnaire: universityofsussex.e...
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Be part of an exciting new global resource! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform. http://bit.ly/3IN5yxt
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In case you missed it - catch up on our latest blog on Augmented Reality and Holocaust Memory. We explore examples from AR practice and theory and propose five recommendations for its future development. www.digitalmemorylab...
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Be part of an exciting new global resource! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform.
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database!
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Tell us your thoughts: universityofsussex.e...

We want to know about your experiences whether or not you use digital technologies. Want to know more? youtube.com/shorts/y...
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Get to know more about digital Holocaust memory with this great example, Verbrannte Orte, an Open Data project about the Places of the Book Burnings in 1933, showcased at our Expo 2025 by Jan Schenck from Memorial Project Verbrannte Orte e.V. youtu.be/zmyZYZZe-Bg
October 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our latest blog is out now on Augmented Reality and Holocaust Memory. We explore examples from AR practice and theory and propose five recommendations for its future development. Read the blog by Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden today.
New Sites of Memory Making: Augmented Reality and Holocaust Memory
By Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Augmented Reality or ‘AR’ is still an emerging field in Holocaust memory. We explore examples from AR practice and theory and propose five recommendations for its future development. What do we mean when we talk about ‘augmented reality’ or ‘AR’ projects? Blancas et al. (2021) bring together several definitions which
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October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What does the global digital Holocaust memorycape look like today? We're conducting the first worldwide survey to find out the experiences of Holocaust organisations, archives, libraries and independent projects. We want to hear from you.
universityofsussex.e...
October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Be part of an exciting new global resource! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform.
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database! This platform is designed to support memory practitioners, researchers, and creative and tech professionals to learn about existing digital practice in Holocaust memory, giving access to walkthroughs of digital projects and interviews with those involved in creating and disseminating them. In March, we ran
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
In case you missed it....catch up on our latest blog focused on recent opportunities to engage with Holocaust education experts which have left us contemplating the role of media literacies.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Be part of an exciting new global resource! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform.
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database! This platform is designed to support memory practitioners, researchers, and creative and tech professionals to learn about existing digital practice in Holocaust memory, giving access to walkthroughs of digital projects and interviews with those involved in creating and disseminating them. In March, we ran
www.digitalmemorylab.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Want to know more about digital Holocaust memory projects? Check out this great example, #LastSeen, a digital 'image atless' of deportations from the German Reich, as discussed at our Expo 2025:
EXPO '25: Let’s Play: #Last Seen
Summary: #LastSeen. Pictures of Nazi Deportations is an international multi-partner research and knowledge transfer project. The aim of the project is to locate, research and digitally publish all deportation images from the territory of the German Reich 1938- 1945 and to educate about deportations
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October 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
October 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Recent opportunities to engage with Holocaust education experts have left us contemplating the role of media literacies. Lab Director Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden explains why a change is needed and presents her ideas for forging a new path in this field.
Do Media Literacies Have a Place in Holocaust Education?
By Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden Recent opportunities to engage with Holocaust education experts through the Lab have left us contemplating the role of media literacies.  Lab Director Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden explains why a change is needed and presents her ideas for forging a new path in this field. Research demonstrates that we both ask too much of
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October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reposted by Landecker Digital Memory Lab
📊 The @ldml.bsky.social at the University of Sussex is about to complete its first year, and the annual report reveals remarkable milestones and successes.

Find out more 👉 bit.ly/43jdltB

🌟 Congratulations to Prof Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden and her team on these achievements!
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Be part of an exciting new global resource! Join our final online user testing session for the Digital Memory Database on Thursday, 13 November, 12-2pm GMT (UTC 0), in collaboration with iRights.Lab, Germany, in association with their Digital Collective Memory Platform.
Digital Memory Database – Online Beta Test V2.0
Join us for the final pre-launch user-testing session of the Digital Memory Database!
bit.ly
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
October 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In case you missed it...Read the abridged version of Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden's keynote to the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies' annual conference.
Digital Holocaust Memory – 30 Years On
by Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden We still often hear people talk about digital Holocaust memory in terms of ‘new media’, but the first Holocaust-related CD-ROMs were released in the mid-1990s. Our Lab Director reflects on the past 30 years of practice in this field. There is still substantial hesitancy in both Holocaust Studies and Holocaust memory practice
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October 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM