Linguistics Behind the Scenes17 Mar 2025

How can we keep Holocaust survivors’ voices alive? | Creating an interactive digital testimony in English

Christina and Dominic explore language, history, and technology in this episode of Linguistics Behind the Scenes!

- How can we digitally preserve Holocaust survivor testimonies for future generations?

- What are the challenges of translating deeply personal historical memories?

- Why do subtitles and dubbing change the way we experience language?

Gather around as the hosts discuss how linguistics and modern technology help keep the past alive.

Full episode transcript available here:

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunication/podcast-transcripts.php#Episode3

Learn more about Holocaust survivor Abba Naor:

http://www.edu.lediz.lmu.de/wordpress/abba-naor-en/

Have a virtual conversation with Abba Naor in English:

https://studio.intheroom.global/preview/01HY1060FTNX41VF6B7ZWAR52J

Video tutorial on how to interact with Abba Naor’s interactive digital testimony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuqqKT0J5Fo

Learn more about the making of the video chatbot:

- LeDiT – Learning with digital testimonies: Holocaust education 2.0. By Antonia Friebel and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100078

- Subtitling Abba Naor’s interactive digital testimony in English: Linguistic considerations underlying the translation process. By Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, Julie Winter and Antonia Friebel. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45924-6_3 .

Material for teachers on how to use the video chatbot in English/history classes by Antonia Friebel and Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (some parts in German):

- Getting to know Abba Naor. Skill: Asking questions in English. https://syncandshare.lrz.de/getlink/fiFamCP6WSQn2B66APCvDj/Interaktives%20digitales%20Zeugnis_Impuls%20f%C3%BCr%20das%20Fach%20Englisch.docx .

- Abba Naors Zeugnis im fächerübergreifenden bilingualen Geschichtsunterricht. https://syncandshare.lrz.de/open/MkpqUmNpVzF1ZWlKcVl5d2lQZXpt/Zur%20Vertiefung/Zur%20Vertiefung_Interaktives%20digitales%20Zeugnis%20zu%20Abba%20Naor%20f%C3%BCr%20den%20bilingualen%20Unterricht.docx?filelink_id=fiD3zbEPbMmnYiEvvUwoMM

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