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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS IN STUTTHOF MUSEUM
On 28-29th of November workshops for german and polish experts in database
creation for museums and archives took place in Stuttthof Museum.
Meetings of this kind are organised periodically for many years by german
memorial places, that document and popularise the memory of Nazi crimes
from years 1939-1945.The conference in Stutthof Museum was first of this
kind of meetings in Poland. The choice of the place was not an accident
- the Archive in Stutthof is one of the best and most complete set of
this kind of documentation all over the world. From the other side, people
working in german museums and memorials of concentration camps wanted
to establish contacts with their branch colleagues from Poland, to exchange
experience and to compare methods of work in such a specific kind of places.
For this, representatives of other polish martyrology museums came to
Stutthof - among others people from the biggest place of this kind- Auschwitz.
The agenda covered a few issues. Guided tour of Stutthof was also provided
for all of the guests, along with the possibility to visit and make some
research in Stutthof Archive. All guests received a copy of multimedia
presentations provided by participants of the Workshop. Especially, much
of the time was spared for the project of digitalistion of over 100 000
preserved prisoners' personal cards, known as 'the Hollerith system' (known
from the famous book 'IBM and the Holocaust' published over 2 years ago).
The study on this big and scattered set, connected with its 'decrypting'
(cards are coded), would be a particular success on the way to create
a huge database of people who suffered from Nazis.
The final part of the meeting was tour over showplaces, buildings and
museums in Gdansk connected with the history of WW2
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