The Latenium is closed
The Latenium is closed
Alix Heiniger is an assistant professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg. A specialist in social history, she has conducted research on the camps in Switzerland – in particular those in which German and Italian anti-fascist activists were interned during the Second World War.
Thomas Kersting is a pioneer of contemporary archaeology in Germany. As deputy director of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archaeological State Museum, he has contributed to the institutionalisation of camp archaeology with regard to the camp sites of the Second World War. He also co-curated the travelling exhibition Ausgeschlossen, which deals with the archaeology of the Nazi camps in Brandenburg, and presented an introduction to the archaeology of the forced labour camps of the 20th century in the book Lagerland.
Luba Jurgenson is a professor in the Slavonic Studies Department at Sorbonne University. A specialist in the concentration literature of the Gulag and Nazi camps, her work focuses on memory and the role played by landscape in the testimonies of former deportees.
Samuel Verdan is a specialist in Greek archaeology. He is involved in the research carried out by the Swiss Archaeological School in Greece on the sites of Eretria and Amarynthos. In 2019, as part of a collaboration between the EPFL and the Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, he supervised a team of students working on a Gulag camp in the Far North of Siberia.
Valentin Schneider is a historian and researcher specialising in the Second World War, the German occupation and wartime captivity. He works regularly with archaeologists in France and Greece, notably as part of excavations at the La Glacerie, Coyolles and Bétheny camps. He has incorporated the results of these excavations into his own work as a historian.
Christine Glauning is a historian and exhibition organiser. For many years she has been interested in the history of forced labour under National Socialism, the post-war period and the cultures of memory. Since 2006, she has been the director of the Documentation Centre on Nazi Forced Labour in Berlin-Schöneweide, which is located on the site of an almost completely preserved forced labour camp and provides information on Nazi forced labour as a pervasive mass phenomenon and social crime through exhibitions, events and numerous training courses.