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With a view to ensuring future access to digital cultural heritage, the first Web collections were established in the mid-1990s. To date there exist for example some 25 national Web archives in Europe that collect and preserve Web material and the Internet Archive has saved 651 billion pages since 1996. However, research projects based on the archived Web rarely engage with or include the general public.

The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of the 2020s not only marked a dramatic moment in world health, but also the start of manifold and entangled global crises that seem to define a watershed moment with severe effects on education. Pandemics we know are recurrent events. Faced with COVID-19 some historians have looked to previous pandemics to understand the nature of the disease and its trajectory, and how previous generations have dealt with similar health crises. This special issue intends not to reinforce narratives of the past but rather to question them.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was de facto annexed and incorporated into the German Reich during the Second World War. The laws and ordinances of the Reich applied to the local population, and male residents were drafted into the Wehrmacht and thus subject to military jurisdiction. The main reason for Luxembourgers to be tried by the Wehrmacht courts was for disobeying orders, mostly desertion. Wehrmacht court records contain not only individual and personal information about the motives of the convicts and the findings of the court but also details about their families and backgrounds.

The Impact and Legacy of War Experiences in Luxembourg” researches the personal side of the history of Luxembourgish youth born between 1920 and 1927 who were enrolled into German services under the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg during World War II. The research focuses on personal testimonies and their individual war experience to uncover these men, women, and families’ individual experiences.

This paper discusses the politics of Jewish Studies by focusing on the digitisation of Jewish cultural heritage and its effects for research into Jewish history(ies). In the past few years we have witnessed the emergence of what could be termed the critical turn in digital humanities with an increasing focus on how digital resources shape various parts of the research process and its outcomes. One aspect of that turn is more attention to digital source criticism and the politics of digitisation of cultural heritage.

Seit einigen Jahren hat die ostbelgische Regionalgeschichtsschreibung versucht, den von Philipp Ther geprägten Begriff des ‚Zwischenraums‘ für die Historiografie über diese belgisch-deutsche Grenzregion im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert fruchtbar zu machen. Diese konzeptionellen Überlegungen fanden ihren Niederschlag zunächst in der Buchreihe „Grenzerfahrungen. Eine Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens“ und dann vor allem in der am C²DH entwickelten virtuellen Ausstellung www.zeitschichten.be (2020).

Presentation of three study cases: 1.Oral Historyand MultimediaResearch–Project ‘’Pierre Werner and Europe’’ (2011-2017) 2.Collaborative Oral History Project –‘’Brexit Reality Portraits’’ (2021-2022) 3.Oral History Research Project –‘’The role of women in European and international relations in Luxembourg (after the Second World War)’’ (2022-2025)

The colloquium is organised by scientists from the Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), Professor Marten Düring and Research Scientist Inna Ganschow-Levandovitch, as well as Research Facilitator Marina Laurent from the Faculty of Humanities, Social and Pedagogical Sciences (FHSE) of the University of Luxembourg. The honorary leader of the inaugural colloquium is invited professor of C²DH Volodymyr Nemchenko.