Multipliers and Gatekeepers of Holocaust Records

Multipliers and Gatekeepers of Holocaust Records in European Memory Data Space

Terraforming will host the event “Multipliers and Gatekeepers of Holocaust Records in European Memory Data Space” on November 20, 2025, at the Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue (Grachtenzaal) in Amsterdam. Organized within the European Memory Data Space (EMDS) – Blueprint project and funded by the European Union’s CERV program, this half-day event will bring together experts and practitioners to explore how digital transformation is reshaping the ways we preserve, share, and teach about the Holocaust and to help shape the blueprint for a future European Holocaust Memory Data Space.

November 20

14:00 – 18:00 CET

Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue Amsterdam

Participation is free, but registration is required.

About the Event

As digital technologies reshape how we record and interpret history, this event will foster an essential dialogue on trust, innovation, and shared responsibility within the emerging digital memory landscape. It will explore how to develop a functional Holocaust-memory ecosystem—a new data space that acts as the socio-technical foundation enabling Holocaust memory professionals to collaboratively preserve, connect, rethink, and teach with care, authenticity, and inclusivity. Participants will discuss how to balance technological possibilities with ethical and educational integrity, and how to foster cross-sector collaboration that ensures Holocaust-related data remains a living, accessible, and trustworthy part of European cultural heritage.

About EMDS

The European Memory Data Space (EMDS) is an EU-supported initiative to envision an innovative, collaborative ecosystem connecting Holocaust-related data, technologies and tools, methodologies, pedagogy, and outputs that strengthen the work of museums and memorials, archives, educators, professional networks, and communities.

It aims to unify and sustain Holocaust-related data sources, laying the foundation for a shared remembrance culture in the 21st century. The ongoing Blueprint phase (2025 – 2026) includes workshops across Europe to co-design and visualize the structure of the future Holocaust Memory Data Space.

The program includes three thematic sessions:

1. Trust, Excitement, Synthesis

Exploring how memory professionals can see technology not as a threat but as an opportunity to enrich and expand their work and knowledge

Exploring how building trust in digital tools and infrastructures — the less visible yet essential foundation of long-term, sustainable work — can nurture excitement about innovation. How can curators, museum educators, teachers, artists, and other creatives see technology not as a threat but as an opportunity to enrich and expand their work and knowledge?

2. The Journey to Synthesis

From inspiration to implementation – thoughts and best practices on integrating new digital approaches into existing frameworks

Focusing on practical pathways to integrate new digital approaches into existing frameworks and practices — and on the data itself: how we digitize, curate, and sustain it for future generations. What mindset do we need when we understand that this is not only our data, but data shared across time, institutions, and diverse usage scenarios?

3. Beyond the Archive

Envisioning the future of educational outreach and engagement through creative and interactive digital tools

Looking ahead at how education in the digital memory sphere can evolve, expanding beyond traditional archives to engage learners through creativity, interactivity, and shared human experience. This session frames use cases that illustrate how the future European Memory Data Space can enable such examples, providing concrete visions of how today’s prototypes can grow into tomorrow’s interconnected ecosystem.

PROGRAM

14:00 – 14:20 | Introduction

“The Digital” in the Holocaust Memorialization and Education
Misko Stanisic | Terraforming

14:20 – 15:20 | Session 1: Trust, Excitement, Synthesis

15-minute keynote presentation and panel discussion
Exploring how building trust in digital tools and infrastructures — the less visible yet essential foundation of long-term, sustainable work — can nurture excitement about innovation. How can curators, museum educators, teachers, artists, and other creatives see technology not as a threat but as an opportunity to enrich and expand their work and knowledge?

(Keynote) Anne Lammers | iRights.Lab / Digital Collective Memory (Berlin)
Bertien Minco | Westerbork Memorial
Dragana Stojanovic | Shoah Lab – Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade | Haver Serbia
Gerrit Netten | Anne Frank House Amsterdam
Moderator Misko Stanisic | Terraforming

15:20 – 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 | Session 2: The Journey to Synthesis – From Inspiration to Implementation

15-minute keynote presentation and panel discussion
Focusing on practical pathways to integrate new digital approaches into existing frameworks and practices — and on the data itself: how we digitize, curate, and sustain it for future generations. What mindset do we need when we understand that this is not only our data, but data shared across time, institutions, and diverse usage scenarios?

(Keynote) Hannah Oldenburger | Jewish Cultural Quarter / National Holocaust Museum Amsterdam
Janine Doerry | Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation / Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Erik Somers | (emeritus) NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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Moderator Jovana Savić | Terraforming

16:30 – 17:30 | Session 3: Beyond the Archive – The Future of Educational Outreach in Digital Memory Culture

15-minute keynote presentation and panel discussion
Looking ahead at how education in the digital memory sphere can evolve, expanding beyond traditional archives to engage learners through creativity, interactivity, and shared human experience. This session frames use cases that illustrate how the future European Memory Data Space can enable such examples, providing concrete visions of how today’s prototypes can grow into tomorrow’s interconnected ecosystem.

(Keynote) Monique Brinks | WO2Net
Lovro Kralj | The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure EHRI-ERIC
Pavel Katz | Jewish Heritage Network / EMDS Blueprint
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Moderator TBC

17:30 – 18:00 | Mingle – Small Bites and Megabits: Connections and Conversations

A relaxed mingle to unwind and reflect after an inspiring day. Enjoy a selection of light bites while continuing discussions informally. This is a space to connect, share impressions, and spark new ideas in good company.

Panelists and Speakers

Brinks Monique

WO2Net, The Netherlands

Monique Brinks is Senior Audience Engagement & Innovation at WO2Net, where she explores creative and technological ways to engage audiences with World War II heritage. She develops interactive projects and prototypes in collaboration with makers from film, XR, theatre, and documentary, focusing on multiperspectivity, inclusivity, and contemporary relevance.

Doerry Janine

Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation / Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany

Janine Doerry is a historian and curator specializing in exhibitions and digital media. She studied history and philosophy at Leibniz University Hannover and has worked at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial and the Husum-Schwesing Concentration Camp Memorial. Her publications address Holocaust education, remembrance policy, and the history of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and memorial.

Katz Pavel

Jewish Heritage Network / EMDS Blueprint

Pavel Katz is the initiator and visionary of the EMDS project and co-founder of the Jewish Heritage Network, where he leads strategy, product development, and fundraising. He previously worked for several years at Europeana in technology roles. Pavel holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Kralj Lovro

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure EHRI-ERIC

Lovro Kralj is a historian specializing in fascism, antisemitism, genocide, and the Holocaust, with a focus on Central and Southeast Europe. He earned his PhD at the Central European University in 2023 and helped establish the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research in Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka. He now works as a Research and Content Officer with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) at NIOD in Amsterdam.

Lammers Anne

iRights.Lab / Digital Collective Memory, Germany

Anne Lammers is a historian at the independent think tank iRights.Lab, focusing on the opportunities and challenges of digital formats for historical and political education. She promotes international collaboration and explores how digitalization can strengthen a participatory and sustainable culture of remembrance.

Minco Bertien

Westerbork Memorial, The Netherlands

Bertien Minco is Director of the Camp Westerbork Memorial Centre. She is the founder of Jeugdcultuurfonds and has a strong background in nonprofit organizations, art education, and coaching. A graduate of the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, she previously worked as a writer, podcast producer, strategic advisor, and cultural sector executive.

Netten Gerrit

Anne Frank House, The Netherlands

Gerrit Netten is a Specialist in Digital Projects at the Anne Frank House. He manages and edits the museum’s websites and has long contributed to media for exhibitions and education. He started long ago with the CD-ROM Anne Frank House: House with a Story in 1999 and the film The Short Life of Anne Frank in 2001.

Oldenburger Hannah

Jewish Cultural Quarter / National Holocaust Museum, The Netherlands

Hannah Oldenburger is an anthropologist and sociologist working in education at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. Her work centers on public engagement, memory culture, and inclusive education on the Holocaust and human rights. She holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Migration and Ethnic Studies, and previously worked as an educator at the Anne Frank Stichting.

Savić Jovana

Terraforming, Serbia

Jovana Savić is Programme Manager at Terraforming. She is pursuing a PhD in Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade, researching sexual violence against women during the Holocaust, including camp brothels and trauma as a long-term psychological consequence.

Somers Erik

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Netherlands

Erik Somers is a historian and emeritus researcher formerly affiliated with the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. His work focuses on the Second World War, Holocaust history, visual culture, and memory, with particular attention to the role of images, museums, and material culture in remembrance.

Stanišić Miško

Terraforming, Serbia

Miško Stanišić is Director and Co-founder of Terraforming, where he leads long-term strategies and projects in Holocaust education. His work addresses antisemitism, antigypsyism, Holocaust distortion, and the misuse of history for nationalist propaganda. He represents Serbia in the IHRA and chaired the project that produced Teaching Recommendations for the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma. Miško also develops innovative educational tools and promotes the creative use of digital technologies in remembrance

Stojanović Dragana

Shoah Lab – Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade / Haver Serbia, Serbia

Dragana Stojanović is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade. She works in memory and Holocaust studies, cultural studies, pedagogy, and art and media theory. Alongside her academic work, she coordinates projects and facilitates interactive educational programs at Haver Serbia, focusing on digital learning and non-formal education.

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Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue

The Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 91, 1011 LM Amsterdam

Dating from 1766, the Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue is one of the few remaining buildings in the once-vibrant Jewish neighborhood. This national monument was built in the Louis XV style with elements of Jewish architecture. In 2015, the building was completely restored and returned to its former glory.

Contact

Miško Stanišić, Director of Terraforming, misko@terraforming.org
Jovana Savić, Project Manager, jovana.savic@terraforming.org
Kris Petrasova, Event Coordinator, kris@jhn.ngo

Participation is free, but registration is required.

Multipliers and Gatekeepers of Holocaust Records

Multipliers and Gatekeepers of Holocaust Records in European Memory Data Space

About the Event

About EMDS

Exploring how memory professionals can see technology not as a threat but as an opportunity to enrich and expand their work and knowledge

From inspiration to implementation – thoughts and best practices on integrating new digital approaches into existing frameworks

Envisioning the future of educational outreach and engagement through creative and interactive digital tools

PROGRAM

14:00 – 14:20 | Introduction

14:20 – 15:20 | Session 1: Trust, Excitement, Synthesis

15:20 – 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 | Session 2: The Journey to Synthesis – From Inspiration to Implementation

16:30 – 17:30 | Session 3: Beyond the Archive – The Future of Educational Outreach in Digital Memory Culture

17:30 – 18:00 | Mingle – Small Bites and Megabits: Connections and Conversations

User User Panelists and Speakers

Brinks Monique

Doerry Janine

Katz Pavel

Kralj Lovro

Lammers Anne

Minco Bertien

Netten Gerrit

Oldenburger Hannah

Savić Jovana

Somers Erik

Stanišić Miško

Stojanović Dragana

Uilenburgersjoel Synagogue

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