Observing Memories Issue 8 December 2024 | Page 103

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5 . Hungarian refugees arriving aboard USNS General Leroy Eltinge in Brooklyn Army Terminal , New York on January 1 , 1957 | National Archives and Records Administration
6 . Minutes of a meeting with a local refugee administrator and a Physicians for Human Rights employee in the aftermath of the Srebrenica Genocide on December 12 , 1996 . | Source : Blinken OSA Archivum
As a first reaction , the Archivum immediately opened its exhibition gallery for collecting dry goods for the refugees ; later , in the fall , it organized a special section entitled Screening the Refugee Crisis as part of its annual Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival , and a filmmaking workshop , which focused on the individual faces and voices of people on the move . Following this line of action , the Archivum decided to produce a curated online collection entitled Refugee DocsMap , by revisiting its already cataloged documentary film collection ( mostly from Verzió submissions since 2003 ), and selecting 600 items related to the global experience of displaced people at varying stages of their journey .
In order to focus on the unique , yet universal individual stories of migration spanning from the early 20th century until present time , the Archivum reworked its methods , describing the selected
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