About

The memories were edited from lengthy oral history interviews conducted by the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive between 2003-2024. An interviewee would answer questions about their past posed by an oral historian or trained interviewer. These interviews were filmed. Later, the filmed recordings were transcribed.

To learn more about this process and the people involved, and find out how to watch the interviews, read more here. 

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For social media, extraordinary moments from the transcripts were selected and edited to be shared alongside family photos and interview portraits. The editing usually involved shortening texts to remove repetitions, turning questions and answers into single narratives, and bringing together references to the same event from different parts of the interview.

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This site represents the afterlife of the social media project. It preserves and safeguards the edited memories by storing them away from social media platforms in a new home.

This work has been done by Zeptobox, a design practise that creates digital archives and resources for unique projects and people.