Podcasts with Rob van der Laarse on Sobibor and camp survivors
On Friday 26 September, two interviews with ASHMS academic director Rob van der Laarse were broadcasted.
The first interview was for De Kennis Van Nu (NTR, Radio 5, 21.00-22.00) in Hilversum by Harm Oving on the discovery earlier this week of the gas chambers at Sobibor. This discovery meant a breakthrough in the debate, that mainly took place on the internet, with Holocaust deniers who are still strongly presented in the Angelsaksian world and the East of Europe. In this double-interview, Ivar Schute also spoke from Poland on dial. Schute is part of the Israeli-Polish-Dutch team that leads the excavation, as well of the international research network Terrorscapes directed by Van der Laarse.
Furthermore, a release took place of the web-interview with Van der Laarse in occasion of the research project Forced Labor 1939-1945 (NS-Zwangsarbeiter und Erinnerung) of the Centre for Digital Systems (CeDis) at the Freie Universität Berlin. The interview was part of the Expertengespräche series. The project centers on a European ‘mapping’ of 590 interviews with camp survivors. The interview was published 28th April 2014 by Cord Pagenstecher and Branka Pavlovic in Berlin and lasts 40 minutes.