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Mauthausen erzählen / Narrating Mauthausen
Narrating Mauthausen
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Abstract Main objective of the 'Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project' (MSDP) was to record appr. 800 interviews with or memoirs from survivors of the NS concentration camp Mauthausen and its sub-camps. After 16 months there were 838 audio interviews (91 of them also on recorded on video) were handed ov... view more
Main objective of the 'Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project' (MSDP) was to record appr. 800 interviews with or memoirs from survivors of the NS concentration camp Mauthausen and its sub-camps. After 16 months there were 838 audio interviews (91 of them also on recorded on video) were handed over to the memorial Mauthausen This article focuses on the video exhibition 'Memory of Mauthausen'. It describes how oral history methodology has been deployed to choose interviewees, to set up the interview situation and to structure the interviews. Finally, selected examples of survivors’ narratives are presented and historically contextualised.... view less
Keywords
oral history; concentration camp; video; interview; prisoner; reminiscence
Classification
General History
Free Keywords
KZ Mauthausen; survivors; exhibition
Document language
German
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 354-372
Journal
Historical Social Research, Supplement (2016) 28
Issue topic
Gerhard Botz - Zeitgeschichte zwischen Politik, Biografie und Methodik: Gewalt und Nationalsozialismus in Österreich im 20. Jahrhundert
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.28.2016.354-372
ISSN
0936-6784
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed