Project Manager
Håkan HåkanssonProject manager
Lund UniversityAmount granted
125 000 SEKYear
2020
The Ravensbrück Archive constitutes one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of testimonies regarding the Nazis’ crimes against humanity. Immediately after the end of the war, a large number of interviews were conducted with Holocaust survivors, who described their experiences in the Nazi regime’s concentration camps. As part of the Witnessing Genocide project, the University Library has made the interviews digitally accessible via a web portal that launched in 2017 and now has approximately 10,000 unique users per year. The intention is also to translate all Polish-language interviews into English; however, this work is taking longer than anticipated due to the often difficult-to-read handwriting. To streamline the translation process, our goal is therefore to have an experienced native Polish-speaking transcriber transcribe the original text, which would free up time for the translator and significantly increase their capacity. However, this service is not covered by our current budget, which is why we are turning to the Torsten Söderberg Foundation with a request for additional funding.