Taking place in South Africa in a Post- Apartheid era with new digital technology like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom websites and scanners, the project aims to create innovative ways of understanding and preserving legacies from the past.
There will be a space for comments, insights and identifications which are essential when it comes to helping find people, form links and identify areas and themes of interest.
The photograph and film collections trace the history of Jewish people in Southern Africa.
The domestic home video (i.e. the Batmitzvah or wedding film) can illuminate an important period of social history or contain previously unseen footage.
Quotidian historical data such as diet, lifestyle, dress, and behavioural codes can shed light on a specific time and place in the past.