From July 19 to 22, 2023, the NGHM team, along with project partners from “Pan History” and international experts, discussed the results and perspectives of the first field test of an app currently being developed at the University of Osnabrück for the visual documentation of historical sites through crowdsourcing at a workshop in Athens.

The workshop’s goal was to gather experiences from practical documentation work with the app and derive ideas for further application development from this. In the practical part, the team then visited some of the monuments observed in the field test in Athens to test additional digital tools for documenting historical sites: 3-D modeling of monuments using photogrammetric methods and LiDAR and creating digital tours using 360-degree fotos.

The workshop and its proceedings will serve as a vantage point to further develop the Pan History network and facilitate internationally comparative research on the German War of Annihilation, the Holocaust, and crimes against the civilian population in areas occupied by German armed forces during the Second World War.

Programm
Thursday, July 20th, 2023.

Start Time 09.30
Dr. Valentin Schneider & Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass
Welcome and opening remarks

Start Time 10:00
Session 1: Reports from field correspondents 

• Anastasia Chartomatsidi (PhD candidate, National and Kapodistrias University of Athens):
  Feedback from the PAN-History field test:
  1) The plaque commemorating the workers of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation OTE executed by the Germans on 7 May 1944.
  2) The plaque commemorating the bombing of the building of ESPO by PEAN resistance fighters on 20 September 1942. 

• Parthenopi Vergou (PhD candidate, University of Macedonia):
  Feedback from the PAN-History field test:
  Monuments dedicated to the memory of the war and the holocaust in the city of Thessaloniki.  

• Natalia Tsourma (PhD candidate, National and Kapodistrias University of Athens):
  Feedback from the PAN-History field test:
  Monuments dedicated to the memory of the war and the resistance in the city of Athens. 

• Stelios Gidis (Student History of Architecture, ELIAMEP):
  Feedback from the PAN-History field test: monuments dedicated to the memory of the war and the resistance in the municipalities of Kessariani and Zografou.  

Discussion 

Start Time 13:00: Lunch Break 

Start Time 14:00:
Session 2: Presentation of mapping projects 

• Valentin Schneider (National Hellenic Research Foundation):
  The Database of German military and paramilitary units in Greece 1941-1944/45. 

• Carlo Gentile (University of Cologne):
  The massacres in occupied Italy (1943-1945) as remembered by the perpetrators. 

• Christoph Rass (Osnabrück University):
  Integrating data driven social history and VR-driven public history. Experiences from the NGHM Research Group at Osnabrück University. 

• Valia Gialia (PhD candidate, ELIAMEP):
  ERC project HOMEACROSS: Space, memory and the legacy of the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. 

• Christos Chatziioannidis (Etz Hayyim Synagogue Chania, Crete):
  Mapping the Childhood: The Jewish Children of Thessaloniki until 1943.  

• Frank Wolff (Osnabrück University):
  The former Juliushütte concentration camp: from “Green Hell’ to ‘Green Belt’? Research excursion Conflict Landscapes. 

Discussion 

Friday, July 21st, 2023.

Fieldwork in Athens 

• Monument 1: 3-D dokumentation of the monument dedicated to the memory of the war and the resistance in the municipality of Zografou 

• Monument 2: 3-D documentation of the central momument dedicated to the momory of the victims of the Holocaust in Athens  
  
• Data Processing and Prototyping   

Concluding Discussion & End of Workshop  

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