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The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oświęcim and volunteers are running the Digital Heritage: Memory for the Future project to develop, translate and illustrate Wikipedia articles related to the local Jewish community, the Jewish Museum's exhibits, and the archaeological excavations and historical monuments of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim.
The mission of the Center is to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of the city of Oświęcim and to educate about the dangers of antisemitism, racism, other prejudices and intolerance. The Center runs the Jewish Museum, looks after the only surviving synagogue in the city, and the house of the last Jewish resident of Oświęcim, Shimson Kleuger.
Our team develops, translates and illustrates Wikipedia entries on these topics. The new articles include archaeological excavations in the area of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, biographies of previously unknown people of merit for the city's history (including priest Jan Skarbek, writer Henryk Schoenker, painter Tova Berlinski), as well as places on the map of contemporary Oświęcim (for example , Memorial Park of the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim).
An element of the project is to introduce young people to the use and co-creation of Wikipedia, the global encyclopedia. The Wikipedian in residence, Marta Malina Moraczewska, is working together with a small group of students of Jewish studies, cultural studies and related disciplines to expand the existing information on the pre-war Oświęcim (Oshpitzin) community and history based on available bibliographic sources. Our goal is to expand the articles about the Jewish community of Oświęcim, its monuments and works of art that have survived to this day. We cordially invite all Wikipedia editors and other interested persons to cooperate! We wish the collections of the Jewish Museum to be available to Wikipedia users from all over the world.
In the first edition of the project, the team completed Wikipedia with nearly 80 entries and translations. The full list of entries already created (or, in some cases, significantly extended) by the team, and available on Wikipedia, can be found in this table. The articles cover four thematic areas:
- Collections of the Jewish Museum and related content related to history, culture, architecture,
- Oświęcim community before 1939 and related biographical entries,
- Places on the map of contemporary Oświęcim related to the multicultural history of the city,
- Treasures of the Great Synagogue and archaeological research conducted in 2004.
Selected new and expanded Wikipedia entries:
Why Wikipedia?
We strive to make knowledge about the cultural past of Oświęcim and the region more accessible to everyone. By developing the content related to the history of Oświęcim and the pre-war community of its inhabitants, we hope to create a place on the Internet where the knowledge about the Oszpicin community and culture will be further researched and collected. For anyone interested in this subject, the Wikipedia article is just a starting point for obtaining additional information - thanks to links and bibliographic annotations, you can go to further content. In the first edition of the project, our team added over 230 footnotes to the entries.
Wikipedia, the articles it contains, as well as the Wikipedia project itself, are living documents that will be further developed, edited, enriched with more detailed content or further multimedia over time. Therefore, we invite all interested parties to participate.
The project involves students of the Jagiellonian University, the University of Łódź and the Pedagogical University in Kraków, as well as interns and employees of the Oshpitzin - Jewish Museum in Oświęcim. The project is supervised by Dr. Artur Szyndler, curator of the Jewish Museum in Oświęcim, and the Wikipedia coordinator is Marta Malina Moraczewska.
The collection of photographs, documents and photos of exhibits from the collection of the Jewish Museum in Oświęcim were uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons media library. The archival portrait and group photos have been used to illustrate a number of biographical entries. In turn, photographs of objects from the museum's collection are used in a variety of historical articles, as well as in many existing Wikipedia articles on culture and history.
All shared multimedia – photos, documents, audio descriptions – are available for re-use, not only in Wikipedia entries, but also for download and further use by all Internet users. Most of the media are in the public domain, and selected photos taken today have been released under a CC BY-SA license.
Multimedia marked as the public domain and those under a CC BY-SA license can be used by all interested parties – scientists and researchers, journalists, teachers, bloggers, application developers and artists. Illustrations made available on Commons may be lawfully used in Internet publications, books and research papers, for the creation of lesson plans, collages, t-shirt designs or gadgets with graphic prints, and for other creative purposes.
All illustrations can be found in the Auschwitz Jewish Center category in Wikimedia Commons →
Illustrations on Wikipedia[edytuj | edytuj kod]
In November 2021, the Center began making photographs and digitized collections available on Wikimedia Commons. By February 2022, the images were used to illustrate over 70 articles in 7 language versions of the encyclopedia. They illustrate not only entries directly related to the project, but also numerous articles related to Jewish culture, history and customs, for example, Tallit, Kippah, Passover, Siddur, History of the Jews in Poland and many others. All articles containing illustrations from the collection of the Jewish Museum are now displayed by Wikipedia readers over 250,000 times per month.
Documentation of archaeological research[edytuj | edytuj kod]
We cooperate with researchers dealing with Jewish history and culture. In addition to the digital collections of the Jewish Museum in Oświęcim, we have made publicly available photos taken during the archaeological excavations in 2004, during which the Auschwitz treasure was discovered - the preserved relics from the destroyed Great Synagogue in Oświęcim. Unique photos documenting the archaeological research were provided by Dr Jacek Proszyk, historian and expert on the history and culture of Polish Jews.
See photos from the excavations →
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Part of the objects found -
Oświęcim treasure - discovery -
Shiviti reconstruction
Contact[edytuj | edytuj kod]
Project coordinator: Marta Malina Moraczewska
Project curator: dr Artur Szyndler
Email: cyfrowedziedzictwo@gmail.com