Google will launch a site with scans emails veterans of WWII

Google Inc. and Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) is now working on a site "living memory". On this website you plan to place the letters of soldiers, soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. The project will be open for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, and April 7, relatives of veterans will be able to download electronic versions of the documents on this site, write News . And will be located about 700 emails stored in the fund organization "National Archives."

For users create a simple online form that lets you download messages to the site, indicating the date ydlya documents as adding comments and description. Placing images as possible on a mobile device and a computer. After a time on the site will place a timeline by which users will be able to choose the time period for documents.

"We expect that the project will be long-term and will last a few years, entire site development and programming interface is upon us, and experts RVIO advised and helped collect the archive messages Soldiers", - said the representative of Google's Ekaterina Kondratiev.

"Letters from war - is not just a valuable historical source, reflecting the personal perception of war and wartime realities. This is the fragile thread that binds the soldier or officer, constantly risking their lives with those whom he protected and valued above all - his family. Each letter was written as the last time, here is the sometimes trepidation, the tenderness that invest in hasty lines. Itself, it was a message, the evidence for the family that their personal defender of the Fatherland is still alive "- commented on the creation of a resource research director Michael RVIO Miagkov.

As mentioned above, about 700 letters will be presented to the organization "National Archives", created in 1988 by a team of predpodavateley and students of the Moscow State Historical Archives Institute. Funds organizations include both personal and family archives, and documentation.



The digital copy of a letter from the "People's Archive» i>



The digital copy of a letter from the "People's Archive» i>

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