Episode 3: 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.

https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunica...

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