Memory of Nations (website)
Memory of Nations is a web based oral history project and multi language platform coordinated by Czech NGO Post Bellum from Prague, with its main partners Czech Radio, and the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. The collections of interviews are archived online, and Czech Radio provides with technology and equipment necessary to carry out the interviews and recordings of witnesses. It’s an international project; witnesses are interviewed in their original language, which is then translated into English. Other oral history institutions can join the project and add their interviews. People interested can search the Memories of Nations site by different categories, anniversaries, places, etc. in order to find specific anecdotes and interviews of people who lived through these times.[1] Memory of Nation project contains in January 2015 more than 2100 published stories of witnesses in several languages with more than 24 000 pictures.
Memory of Nations Award
The Memory of Nations Award is a distinguished honor given to five recipients annually. They are chosen from a total of twenty nominees by a panel of people associated with historical research, journalist connections, or political power. Post Bellum has hosted the Awards ceremony since 2010. In November 2014, the award was presented to people from five countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Germany) connected to the resistance of the Iron Curtain. Its aim to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of communism in Europe.
Phone Application
Those involved with Memory of Nations has created a mobile application entitled “Memory of Nations sites,” in which smartphone users can find places throughout Europe, witness accounts, texts, and archival materials. One can access the interactive map and find hundreds of anecdotes based on their current location of historical interests. This application is available through both iOS and android operating systems.
References
External links
- www.memoryofnationssites.eu
- www.ironcurtainstories.eu
- www.memoryofnations.eu
