Tormented Alderney: archaeological investigations of the Nazi labour and concentration camp of Sylt

Colls, Caroline Sturdy; Kerti, Janos; Colls, Kevin

doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.238

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“…The project aimed to complete an analysis of the former camps' terrain during the socalled desk phase. Like with other similar studies on the reconstruction of the topography of camps operating during the Second World War [62][63][64][65], it was expected that the developed visualizations produced based on DEM would be significantly supported. However, the developed materials played a minor role at the desk research phase.…”

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Use of Geoinformatics for the Digitization and Visualization of Sensitive Space in the Urban Landscape: A Case Study of the Gross-Rosen Sub-Camps Systems

Różycki,

Michalski,

Kobielec

2024

Remote Sensing

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Geospatial technologies enable accurate and detailed documentation of cultural heritage sites. They allow for the creation of digital representations of these sites that can be shared with interested audiences. Given the above, this paper presents the possibility of using archival data to reconstruct the topography of two German labor camps, Dyhernfurth I and II, which operated during World War II. To perform this task, multi-source archival data was obtained and interpreted. These data came from various sources: archives, historical institutes, and museums. The results of the study were presented to the staff of the Gross-Rosen Museum, who anticipated the possibility of using the proposed tools in the management of other labor camps. The proposed methodology can be replicated at other locations and easily implemented by other martyrdom museums involved in the preservation of cultural heritage.

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Use of Geoinformatics for the Digitization and Visualization of Sensitive Space in the Urban Landscape: A Case Study of the Gross-Rosen Sub-Camps Systems

Różycki,

Michalski,

Kobielec

2024

Remote Sensing

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“…The spatial organization of the labour camps is very characteristic and repetitive. It brings to mind Second World War German Nazi work camps because of similar principles (Sturdy Colls 2015; Sturdy Colls et al 2020; Uziel 2010). Most of the prisoners’ barracks had already been demolished by the time the imagery studied here was collected.…”

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A Nuclear Generator of Clouds: Accidents and Radioactive Contamination Identified on Declassified Satellite Photographs in the Mayak Chemical Combine, Southern Urals

Kiarszys¹

2021

CAJ

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The Mayak Chemical Combine was one of the most secretive places in the Soviet Union. It was built in the southern Urals, close to Kyshtym. The facility produced weapons-grade plutonium and other radioactive isotopes for the Soviet nuclear military programme. Fugitives from behind the Iron Curtain mentioned the site, usually due to accidents and peculiar, unexplained observations. Such reports were often treated in the West as exaggerated or fictional, as they spoke of large-scale disasters, deportations and vast landscape transformations. This paper aims to present the research potential of declassified Cold War intelligence records for archaeological landscape studies of off-limits military sites. To outline a somewhat broader perspective, I will combine those sources with contemporary historical knowledge and modern remote sensing data. The analysis will be focused on the Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] satellite imagery (CORONA and GAMBIT) from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s. The discussed sources recorded outcomes of nuclear disasters, hundreds of square kilometres of uninhabited wasteland, abandoned villages, disappearing lakes, dying forests, diverted rivers, and other features related to this clandestine plutonium facility.

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“…Since 2010, the Centre of Archaeology at Staffordshire University has undertaken forensic archaeological investigations at Sylt concentration and labour camp (Alderney, The Channel Islands) as part of the Alderney Archaeology and Heritage Project (Sturdy Colls et al 2020). Sylt provides a unique case study, being the only concentration camp constructed on occupied British territory during World War Two (Megargee & White 2018).…”

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Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective

Kerti¹,

Colls²,

Swetnam³

2021

Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research

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Recently, Holocaust researchers have used forensic archaeology to examine tangible evidence of atrocities; both as material culture and investigative data (Sturdy Colls & Branthwaite 2018;Schute 2017;Haimi & Mazurek 2013). Archaeologists use a wide range of primary sources including maps, photographs, witness testimonies, remotely sensed data, artefacts, vegetation and anthropogenic landscape changes. Since 2000, archaeological investigations of Nazi sites of persecution have increased. As most Holocaust landscapes were not examined post-1945, these investigations are globally significant (Sturdy Colls 2015;Gilead et al 2010). Accounting for investigative sensitivities, non-invasive forensic archaeological approaches are increasingly applied to fieldwork, producing digital data, recording material culture and structural remains (Sturdy Colls 2015). These data provide insights into how victims lived, survived, and died, and how perpetrators used the landscapes to enforce dominance and control. In this chapter, we outline a case study from Alderney (The Channel Islands) which uses virtual heritage technologies to present forensic archaeological data. We assessed its impact on (i) UK secondary school students, and (ii) employees and visitors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In doing this, we sought to answer the following: Can virtual heritage environments, coherently and accountably disseminate forensic archaeological Holocaust data? How do users learn about the Holocaust from interacting with virtual heritage environments? What ethical considerations should be considered when constructing virtual Holocaust environments? Visualising Sites of AtrocitiesHolocaust archaeology increasingly generates digital data which requires innovative representation.Its dissemination through virtual heritage technologies conforms to Beech's ideology that Holocaust memorials fulfil both a 'remembering' and 'not forgetting function', naturally commemorating events and landscapes (2002, p. 199). However, representation style and format can influence audience per-

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Tormented Alderney: archaeological investigations of the Nazi labour and concentration camp of Sylt

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Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Use of Geoinformatics for the Digitization and Visualization of Sensitive Space in the Urban Landscape: A Case Study of the Gross-Rosen Sub-Camps Systems

Use of Geoinformatics for the Digitization and Visualization of Sensitive Space in the Urban Landscape: A Case Study of the Gross-Rosen Sub-Camps Systems

A Nuclear Generator of Clouds: Accidents and Radioactive Contamination Identified on Declassified Satellite Photographs in the Mayak Chemical Combine, Southern Urals

Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective

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