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

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This podcast is for everyone who enjoys or even loves language. Have you ever wondered why we speak or write like that? And how we can find out what is usual, "right" or "wrong" in language use? Then join linguistics professor Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer and linguistics enthusiast Dominic Piazza on a backstage tour of linguistic research as they engage in entertaining chats about all the many fun and interesting aspects of language. Visit our website: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunication/podcast.php

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

Linguistics Behind the Scenes

42 minutes 53 seconds

7 months ago

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