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The #VisDom (visualization of data and information - symposium at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) took place for the second time at the university's department of information sciences from 27th to 28th May 2016. Whereas the 2015 symposium dealt exclusively with the visual representation, especially with the use of AR, the 2016 range of topics was considerably broader and focused on the principle of "smart libraries". This report summarizes the main contributions to the discussion and the contents of the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report from a June 11-13, 2015 conference in Oranienburg and Berlin, Germany on German and Polish memorials to Nazi war crimes hosted by the Sachsenhausen memorial and museum as well as the Berlin center for historical research at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Topics of presentations delivered Polish and German collective memories of the 20th century, the design and construction of verious sorts of memorials, and the use of an augmented reality system at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp memorial.