# Holocaust Materialities Network The *Holocaust Materialities Network* (HMN) is an international consortium working towards making some of the largest and most unique collections of Holocaust-related material culture in existence interoperable and available as computer-actionable data to be used for sophisticated computational analyses and redeployed for engaging digital exhibitions and other educational programming. I am co-principal investigator alongside [Caroline Sturdy Colls](https://www.staffs.ac.uk/people/caroline-sturdy-colls), and members include the [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum](https://www.ushmm.org), the [Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center,](https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org) the United Kingdom’s [National Holocaust Centre and Museum](https://www.holocaust.org.uk), and the [Lake District Holocaust Project](http://ldhp.org.uk). A key motivation for this project is the surge in Holocaust denial and antisemitism in the US, the UK, and Europe. A crucial underpinning of these trends is the public’s diminishing knowledge of the Holocaust, exacerbated by the passing of eyewitnesses, the increase in misinformation and conspiracy theories within mainstream discourse, and the rise of nationalistic political agendas that attempt to unify the majority by scapegoating minorities. Knowledge of what the Holocaust was, who was murdered, how many were killed, and what caused it, are crucial in discrediting mitigation and denial. While the platform being developed by HMN will initially bring together existing museum collections from world-leading institutions, archaeological data from surveys and excavations at Holocaust sites, textual objects extracted from archived Nazi inventories containing descriptions of tens of thousands of items from Jewish households, and a newly created digital archive of objects in the possession of Holocaust survivors and their families, it will also support the addition of collections by projects and institutions of all scales. In addition, HMN will not only serve as a research tool, but also as a repository for reusable materials targeted at outreach and educational activities. These materials, produced both by our consortium and the wider Jewish and Holocaust studies communities, will include quality content designed to enrich, contextualize, and showcase the collections, as well as expertly produced multimedia essays, and collaborative digital exhibitions focused on lesser-known aspects of Holocaust history, as told through the objects belonging to survivor communities. ## Recent Publications Download 3 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&&content_filter%5B0%5D=688410&content_filter%5B1%5D=688395&content_filter%5B2%5D=688394&content_filter%5B3%5D=688402&&format=ris) ### 2019 Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel H. Pizzorno, and Nathaniel Hay. 2019. “[Recyclage et L’ontologie de L’objet Dans les Textes du Bas Moyen Âge : L’exemple de Marseille](/publication/recyclage-et-lontologie-de-lobjet-dans-les-textes-du-bas-moyen-age-lexemple-de)”. In L’objet Au Moyen Âge et à L’époque Moderne : Fabriquer, échanger, Consommer et Recycler, Pp. 393-401. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen Daniel Lord Smail, Gabriel H. Pizzorno, and Nathaniel Hay. 2019. “[Recyclage et L’ontologie de L’objet Dans les Textes du Bas Moyen Âge : L’exemple de Marseille](/publication/recyclage-et-lontologie-de-lobjet-dans-les-textes-du-bas-moyen-age-lexemple-de)”. In L’objet Au Moyen Âge et à L’époque Moderne : Fabriquer, échanger, Consommer et Recycler, Pp. 393-401. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/smail_pizzorno_hay_2019.pdf) Pendant la dernière décennie du XIXe siècle, l’idée d’une science de la société fondée sur une approche positiviste commençait à prendre forme. Le but en était de construire une méthodologie pouvant réduire les phénomènes sociaux humains en... - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/smail_pizzorno_hay_2019.pdf) ### 2018 Gabriel H. Pizzorno and Daniel Lord Smail. 2018. “[An Archaeology of Textual Things](/publication/archaeology-textual-things)”. In Situ Gabriel H. Pizzorno and Daniel Lord Smail. 2018. “[An Archaeology of Textual Things](/publication/archaeology-textual-things)”. In Situ - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/pizzorno_and_smail_2018.pdf) In the past few decades, the efforts of museums and other cultural institutions to digitize and make their collections accessible online have made massive amounts of information about artifacts available to the general public and researchers alike. From... - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/pizzorno_and_smail_2018.pdf) Gabriel H. Pizzorno, Daniel Lord Smail, and Laura Morreale. 2018. “[Using Linked Open Data for a Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe](/publication/using-linked-open-data-documentary-archaeology-late-medieval-europe)”. In Linked Pasts IV. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Gabriel H. Pizzorno, Daniel Lord Smail, and Laura Morreale. 2018. “[Using Linked Open Data for a Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe](/publication/using-linked-open-data-documentary-archaeology-late-medieval-europe)”. In Linked Pasts IV. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/dalme_lod_poster.pdf) The “Documentary Archaeology of Late Medieval Europe” (DALME) is a publicly accessible database of material culture based on the textual sources from later medieval Europe. The goal of the project is to increase our understanding of Europe’s material... - [ picture\_as\_pdfPDF](/sites/g/files/omnuum8726/files/pizzorno/files/dalme_lod_poster.pdf)