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25 September 2014
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The Archaeology of Violence

International colloquium organized by Inrap and the Museum of Louvre-Lens.
October 2, 3 and 4, 2104 at La Scène du Louvre-Lens

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Caroline Sturdy Colls, University of Staffordshire

At the extermination and labour camps at Treblinka in Poland, the Nazis murdered over 800,000 people. When they abandoned the camps in 1943 and 1944, they tried to hide the traces of their crimes. This resulted in the popular perception that the camps had been destroyed and no systematic attempt was made to locate the evidence of the crimes or to find the graves of the victims. However, this lecture will outline how historical and archaeological research has demonstrated that a considerable body of evidence from the camps does survive. Through the use of a range of interdisciplinary state-of-the-art techniques, that comply with Halacha Law, it will be shown how previously unmarked mass graves and the remains of many of the former camp buildings have been found. It will be demonstrated how, a forensically accurate picture of the camps is emerging and the implications of this work for commemoration, re-interpretation and education will also be discussed.
Caroline Sturdy Colls is a lecturer in Forensic Investigation at Staffordshire University, specialising in forensic and Holocaust archaeology. She is also the Research Lead at the Centre of Archaeology at the same institution. Her research focuses on the application of interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of Holocaust landscapes and the need for a sub-discipline of Holocaust Archaeology. As part of this research, she completed the first archaeological surveys of the former extermination camp at Treblinka (Poland), the sites pertaining to the slave labour programme in Alderney (the Channel Islands), and the former Semlin Judenlager and Anhaltelager (Belgrade, Serbia). Her research at Treblinka extermination camp in Poland has recently received international media attention following the broadcast of a Channel 5 television documentary "Treblinka: Inside Hitler’s Secret Death Camp’ and a BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘The Hidden Graves of the Holocaust’.  She is a co-author of Forensic Approaches to Buried Remains and has published various other papers in the areas of forensic and Holocaust Archaeology. She is currently working on a book entitled Holocaust Archaeologies: New Approaches and Future Directions which will be published later this year. 

Bibliography:
  • Sturdy Colls, C. 2012. 'Holocaust Archaeology: Archaeological Approaches to Landscapes of Nazi Genocide and Persecution', Journal of Conflict Archaeology 7(2), 71-105. Available from: http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/jca/  
  • Sturdy Colls, C. 2014. Gone but not forgotten: archaeological investigations at the former extermination camp in Treblinka', Holocaust Studies and Materials 3 (in English)
  • Sturdy Colls, C. 2012. 'O tym, co minelo, lecz nie zostalo zapomniane. Badania archeologiczne na terenie bylego obozu zaglady w Treblince', Zaglada Zydow. Studia i Materialy 8 (in Polish), 77-112. For more information see:http://www.zagladazydow.org/?l=a&lang=pl
  • Hunter, J. Simpson, B. and Sturdy Colls, C. 2013. Forensic Approaches to Buried Remains. Wiley, London.   
  • Sturdy Colls, C. 2013. 'Archaeological Survey of the Former Extermination Camp at Treblinka/'Ocena archeologiczna terenu bylego Obozu Zaglady w Treblince/'', Co wiemy o Treblince? Stan  Badan. Warsaw (in Polish and English).  
  • Sturdy Colls, C. 2013. 'The Archaeology of the Holocaust', British Archaeology 130, p. 50-53

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Year :
2014
Conference
Late Modern Period