The Kaufering Concentration Camps Interviews in the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoa Foundation

Starting in June 1944, 11 concentration camps were erected in the Landsberg/Kaufering region (about 60 kilometers west of Munich). The camps all were named Kaufering with a number and were satellite camps of Dachau. Until the end of the war 23,500 almost exclusively Jewish prisoners were forced to work on three huge construction sites for aircraft production facilities (project “Ringeltaube”). More than 6,500 people died in these camps; 3,500 people which were unable to work anymore were transported to Auschwitz and other camps and were mostly murdered immediately. The Kaufering concentration camps were freed on April 27, 1945. The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoa Foundation has 591 Interviews of Holocaust survivors who mention Kaufering in their interviews. As part of the seminar “Computational Social Science” at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (Winter Semester 2019/20) 25 students transcribed parts of a total of 234 of these interviews. The students were asked to transcribe the interview parts that include accounts about the concentration camps in Kaufering. Interviews were transcribed in seven languages (88% English). Overall 276,126 words have been transcribed. During class, the transcribed interviews were used for text analytical studies.

1944年6月起，慕尼黑以西约60公里的兰茨贝格/考弗灵（Landsberg/Kaufering）区域内共设立11座集中营。上述营地均以"考弗灵（Kaufering）"加编号的形式命名，为达豪集中营（Dachau）的附属营区。截至二战结束，共有23500名几乎清一色为犹太人的囚犯被迫在三处大型建筑工地开展航空生产设施建造工作，项目代号为"Ringeltaube"。期间超过6500人在营中丧生；另有3500名丧失劳动能力的囚犯被转运至奥斯威辛集中营（Auschwitz）等营区，其中绝大多数当即遭到杀害。考弗灵集中营群于1945年4月27日获得解放。南加州大学大屠杀基金会视觉历史档案馆（Visual History Archive of the USC Shoa Foundation）收藏有591段提及考弗灵集中营的大屠杀幸存者访谈录像。在慕尼黑工业大学（Technical University of Munich）巴伐利亚公共政策学院2019/20冬季学期的"计算社会科学"研讨课中，25名学生对其中总计234段访谈的相关内容进行了转录。学生们被要求转录涉及考弗灵集中营经历的访谈片段。本次转录的访谈共使用7种语言完成，其中88%为英语，累计总转录字数达276126词。课堂教学期间，这批转录完成的访谈文本被用于开展文本分析相关研究。