Interview Lorena De Vita: Using Transkribus to decrypt the diaries of a German jurist

During her research Lorena De Vita stumbled upon the personal diaries, spanning from 1932 to 1989, of Otto Küster, a German jurist who dedicated a significant portion of his professional career seeking reparations for Holocaust survivors. His handwriting, however, was almost illegible. De Vita participated in a Trankskribus workshop offered by the UB and CDH and put together a research team to start transcribing the diaries.

On 20 March 2024 De Vita and her postdoc Laura Fahnenbruck will deliver a CDH lecture. This is followed by an optional Transkribus workshop provided by the DH-UB Team.

• Read the interview ‘Trying to read some ‘forgotten’ diaries

• Sign up for the lecture ‘Digitally unveiling the history of reparative justice in the words of a forgotten diary using Transkribus’ and optionally the Transkribus workshop