November 2011 Workshop at the University of Athens

Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Athens.

Left: Hagen Fleischer, Professor of Modern History at Athens University, specializing in 20th Century Greek history.

Hagen Fleischer, Professor of Modern History at Athens University, specializing in 20th Century Greek history.

Verena Nagel, Project Manager of the CeDiS Multimedia Archive at Freie Universität Berlin (front, at left), and Olga Katziardi-Hering, Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of Athens.

Andrea Szőnyi, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Regional Consultant in Hungary.

From left: Verena Nagel, Project Manager of the CeDiS Multimedia Archive at Freie Universität Berlin, and Hagen Fleischer, Professor of Modern History at Athens University, specializing in 20th century Greek history.

Verena Nagel, Project Manager of the CeDiS Multimedia Archive at Freie Universität Berlin.

Caden Benardout, who coordinated interviews with survivors and other witnesses in Greece for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

Yvette Capon, General Secretary of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, greets participants at the workshop.

On November 3, 2011, the University of Athens gained access to the Institute's Visual History Archive. As part of the launch, the University hosted a workshop led by Andrea Szőnyi, the Institute's Regional Consultant in Hungary, who gave a presentation on the history of the Institute and the scope of its regional activities; and Verena Nagel, Project Manager of the Multimedia Archive at Freie Universität Berlin's Center for Digital Systems. The workshop continued on November 4 with hands-on training on the use of the archive.

Album posted on: November 9, 2011