We’ve come across what looks like an interesting kickstarter project called ReVILNA, a project about the WW2 Vilna Ghetto described on its web site as a “digital mapping project dedicated to understanding how the residents of the Ghetto lived, how the ghetto functioned — even, given the circumstances, flourished — how it emerged, and how, ultimately, it was liquidated.”
It was built by
geographically tagging over two hundred points of historical significance — pulled from memoirs, archives, original Ghetto documents and artifacts, and oral and historical accounts — and pairing them with dozens of relevant photographs. Users can explore the Ghetto on their own, using filters to find places and events of interest; or can follow built-in stories, including resistance, culture, health, education, Judenrat and formation and liquidation of the Ghetto.
In some ways this resembles the L’viv Interactive project of the L’viv Center for Urban History.
See the ReVILNA Kickstarter page
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I like the idea of this project a lot. I’ll both read it with interest and use it to try and discover more about my paternal grandmother’s family/ancestors.