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Background and Acknowledgments

This website, "Letters Against Oblivion," is based on the research project "Black Milk: Withheld Letters from the Death Camps of Transnistria." Through years of international cooperation (2009–2012), the documents of archive collection F1061 were systematically catalogued, digitized, and translated for the first time. The aim was to free the voices of the persecuted from the anonymity of the files and to make their testimonies accessible to the global public.

Project Management & Conception

Lead: Dr. Benjamin Grilj

Conception: Dr. Benjamin Grilj, Dr. Iryna Grilj, Dr. Serhij Osachuk

Scientific Introduction: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter A. Binder, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrei Corbea Hoisie

Archiving & Digitization

Archive Access (State Archives Černivci): Dr. Dmytro Zhmundyljak, Mag. Natalia Massian, Mag. Dragos Olaru

Digitization: Mag. Oleh Shylyuk (Chernivtsi University Library)

Translation

Teresa Binder, Jeremy Fogel, Mag. Katharina Glöckel, Dr. Irina Grilj, Assist. Adriana Ionescu, Lydia Jones, Univ.-Prof. Mariana Lazarescu, Mag. Lydia Maille, Mag. Ute Michailowitsch, Mag. Dragos Olaru, Trevor Pettit, Ana Reid, Mag. Thomas Soxberger, Mariana Stephanou, Mark Volovici.

Financial Support & Funding

The project was made possible by the generous support of the following institutions:

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