The new issue (autumn 2018) of "Oral History", the journal of the British Oral History Society, contains an article by Cord Pagenstecher on "Testimonies in digital environments: comparing and (de-)contextualising interviews with Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch".

The article discusses the role of digital technology in oral history. After describing the digital environments for large-scale interview collections created at Freie Universität Berlin, the article reflects on the impact of digital technology on recording, narrating and interpreting testimony. Then it suggests a comparative approach to recorded interviews as multimodal and multilingual historical sources. Some exemplary analyses of two interviews with Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, recorded in 1998 and 2006, demonstrate the potential of digital research in oral history archives.

• Homepage of the Oral History Journal
• Interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch in the archive "Forced Labor 1939-1945", za072 (registration necessary)
• Interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch in the Visual History Archive, 48608
  • Transcript (online) or
  • Interview (registration necessary, access only within the FU network)