The 64 collections added this year include the complete works of the Sufi poet and philosopher Mawlana, jointly submitted by Bulgaria, Germany, Uzbekistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan; the EMI Archive Trust’s records and audio documents – more than 100,000 recordings covering music, urban and rural traditions and oral creations from 1897 to 1914 –; or the Proceedings of the First Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement submitted by Algeria, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Serbia.
Several collections help to learn from past events and promote reconciliation, such as the collections presented by Canada on the assimilation of indigenous children, the archives of the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar presented by Ukraine, and the Holocaust film “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann’s two hundred hours of archive material presented by France and Germany.
Three nominations relate to the memory of slavery: documents proposed jointly by France and Haiti, others jointly by Curaçao, the Netherlands, St. Martin and Suriname, and others by Mauritius.