Voices from Ravensbrück. Towards the creation of an oral and multilingual resource family

This paper describes a pilot project aimed at introducing a new type of corpus in the CLARIN resource family tree, called ‘narratives’. To this end, a multilingual corpus of existing interviews with survivors of concentration camp Ravensbrück will be curated following CLARIN compliant standards. During WWII this German camp imprisoned 130.000 women from 20 different nationalities. This diversity creates the opportunity to build a unique corpus of gender specific interviews, covering the same topic, narrated in a similar structure, but voiced in different languages. The corpus will also be enriched with various types of annotation (transcripts e.g.).