"THE ARCHIVE WAS OUR LIFE" - notes from an interview with Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (Head of the Cologne Historical Archive)
Yesterday night for the first time Bettina Schmidt-Czaia (Head of the Cologne Historical Archive) spoke about the most fatal day in the history of the archive (the whole Interview was published in German in Koelner Stadtanzeiger KSTA):
KSTA: Does the shock have a lasting effect?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: It will take a long time until this is figured out. But the first shock has passed: The feeling that the world came to an end. Someday the instinct to survive sets in again.
KSTA: How is your staff?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: Very bad! They have been working all day for the last week without a break. Some of them are so affected and upset that they are not able to attend work. This archive was our life. We fought so hard – we wanted to rescue the building and the inventory.
KSTA: Do you know any similar cases of damage?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: No. Catastrophies in the archival area are mostly flood water damages. But something like this – no.
SEE ALSO COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
GERMAN: http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive
KSTA: Does the shock have a lasting effect?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: It will take a long time until this is figured out. But the first shock has passed: The feeling that the world came to an end. Someday the instinct to survive sets in again.
KSTA: How is your staff?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: Very bad! They have been working all day for the last week without a break. Some of them are so affected and upset that they are not able to attend work. This archive was our life. We fought so hard – we wanted to rescue the building and the inventory.
KSTA: Do you know any similar cases of damage?
SCHMIDT-CZAIA: No. Catastrophies in the archival area are mostly flood water damages. But something like this – no.
SEE ALSO COLOGNE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
GERMAN: http://archiv.twoday.net/topics/Kommunalarchive
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