Abstract
This paper concentrates on the digital archives which register the memories of witnesses, which memorialize important historical events of twentieth century. The evelopment of technology increases the number of institutions and organizations, which are practicing oral history and publish memories in the digital form.
Public space is flooded by the different versions of history in this way, which forms a potential field of conflict encountered by historians, activists, politicians and the witnesses themselves. But at the core of this text the digital archive stands as such.
What kind of time qualitydoes the possibility to hear the memories of the witnesses anywhere and anytime bring? The archives are penetrated not only by the historyremembered and evoked by the witness, but also the time of recording and the time of listening and watching. Who is the subject of this remembering? The witness, the institution, or the archive itself? These are the fundamental questions, which we will ask in face of the chosen archives.
The thesis will will be linked to the theoretical works (Aleida Assmann, Wolfgang Ernst) and to the actual discussion of the transformations of time regimes.