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Over recent years, several private photos of the persecution of the Hungarian Jews have been made accessible to the public online. However, due to the lack of historical context and basic metadata, these photographs remain difficult to trace. This problem is particularly significant for international researchers without knowledge of Hungarian.
In 2020, I started examining ways to design and develop online exhibitions, and this short essay outlines the process and results: the online gallery “Forced Labour, Hungary 1940”. The aim of this project was to present and contextualise one small collection of family materials – two photo albums and a diary – to make them accessible for a broader, international public.
Secure and precise personal identification is essential for the continuation of socioeconomic activities during a pandemic. In Japan, the main region of focus for this research, this became even clearer between 2020 and 2021 when multiple cases of online fraud involving identity theft took place, including a series of document forgery to receive a financial relief package and taking online job tests for someone else. When the next pandemic and the next lockdown come in the future, our society needs to be better prepared to face this challenge of continuing life under severely restricted in-person communication.
At the beginning of the 20th century population growth, urbanisation and housing shortage were challenges throughout Europe. Consequently, epidemics and even pandemics were common. However, during the same era, significant advances in medicine occurred, leading in more effective vaccines, antibiotics, and chemicals against vermin. Moreover, healthy lifestyle was promoted via campaigns, including educational posters. Simultaneously, the concept of the new, modern citizen evolved. In our research project, we analyse and compare Finnish, German and Soviet posters educating citizens in improving their everyday habits, living environments and, in the end, their health. Our aim is to find out, what were the methods and means of the visual health education of the 20th century, and what kind of ideals were pictured in health promotion posters.
Annette Vowinckel ist Leiterin der Abteilung Zeitgeschichte der Medien- und Informationsgesellschaft am Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam und außerplanmäßige Professorin im Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Im von Janaina Ferreira dos Santos und Iulia Sucutardean geführten multimedialen Interview für das Online-Portal „Visual History“ (visual-history.de) stellt die Historikerin ihr neues Buchprojekt Zentralbild, Photo International and the Visual Politics of Late State Socialism vor, geht auf die Methoden ihrer Quellenarbeit ein und betont, wie digitale Tools die Arbeit von Historiker:innen in vielerlei Hinsicht vereinfachen können.