Contributions sought for ‘The Living Archive’
The archive will initially be stored digitally on a community-accessible website.
A Grassroots initiative is collecting testimonies, photographs and materials documenting how events since October 7, 2023 have impacted Australia’s Jewish community.
The Living Archive, spearheaded by activist group J-United, aims to preserve evidence that might otherwise be lost in WhatsApp groups or personal photo collections.
“We wanted to document what’s happened post-October 7 here, because at the moment, I think it’s lost in a lot of WhatsApp groups and people’s photos that they’ve taken,” explained Simmone Whine from J-United.
The project seeks to gather diverse materials including photographs of graffiti and protests, media coverage, personal testimonies, letters sent to organisations and their responses, and documentation of both positive stories and misinformation.
“We wanted to do something that would preserve the truth in the face of the distortion and the denial that goes on,” Whine said.
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