Hologrammed holohoaxers to live forever

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Holocaust survivor Max Glauben sitting in an interactive green screen room while filming a piece for [propaganda*]
* unbelievably, the last word was omitted in the caption, but we know that it's propaganda

Technology brings images of Holocaust survivors to life
The recollections of Max Glauben, a Dallas resident who as a Jew in Poland survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps, are now being preserved in a way that will allow generations to come to ask his image questions.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5445984,00.html

Max Glauben was 17 and had already lost his mother, father and brother at the hands of the Nazis when US troops rescued him while he was on a death march from one German concentration camp to another.

The recollections of the Dallas resident who as a Jew in Poland survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps are now being preserved in a way that will allow generations to come to ask his image questions. Glauben, who turns 91 on Monday, is the latest Holocaust survivor recorded in such a way by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation. The Los Angeles-based foundation has recorded 18 interactive testimonies with Holocaust survivors over the last several years, and executive director Stephen Smith says they're in a "race against time" as they work to add more, seeking both a diversity in experiences and testimonies in a variety of languages.

"I thought that my knowledge could cure the hatred and the bigotry and the killings in this world if somebody can listen to my story, my testimony, and be educated even after I'm gone," Glauben said.

Smith says that while the foundation founded in 1994 by film director Steven Spielberg has about 55,000 audiovisual testimonies about genocides in dozens of languages—the majority from the Holocaust—the interactive technology stands out for allowing museumgoers to have a dialogue with survivors.

"It's your questions that are being answered," Smith said, adding that the replies, especially on weighty issues like forgiveness can be especially poignant. He says, "You actually see sometimes them struggling to know what to answer."

So far, the foundation has Holocaust survivors speaking in English, Hebrew and Spanish, and the group hopes to get people speaking in even more languages.

"It's so powerful when it's in your mother tongue and you're looking the person in the eye and you are hearing nuanced language coming back that's your own language," Smith said.

For more than a year now, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center has featured the survivors' images in a special theater . Museum CEO Susan Abrams says that when visitors interact with the images , the impact is often obvious: "People get teary; people laugh."

"Our audience comes to feel that they know these survivors somewhat intimately because they're having small group conversation, and in that moment, pretty much everything else fades away," Abrams said.

The Illinois museum is one of four currently featuring the images. Other museums are in Houston , Indiana and New York . The Holocaust museum in Dallas will start showing them starting in September, after it opens in a new location and with a new name — the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.


Holocaust survivor gives interactive testimony

The Dallas museum currently brings in survivors to talk to students and has found that's often the most meaningful part of their visit, according to President and CEO Mary Pat Higgins. This technology ensures that can continue, she said.

"Our survivors are aging, and so in 20 years we won't have any survivors who are still able to do that themselves," she said.

Smith said the images can appear on a flat screen or be projected in a way that appears to be three-dimensional. Like Illinois, Dallas is building a special theater so the image will appear three-dimensional on a stage.

Smith said the technology involved is simpler than many people think.

"It's actually video that responds to human voice commands," he said. "And all that's happening is rather than you watching a linear testimony, all the bits of the testimony are broken up, and then when you ask it a question it finds that piece of video and plays it for you."

JT Buzanga, assistant curator at the Holocaust Museum Houston, said the uniqueness of the interactive testimonies gives visitors a reason to return.

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Smith says that while the foundation founded in 1994 by film director Steven Spielberg has about 55,000 audiovisual testimonies about genocides in dozens of languages — the majority from the Holocaust — the interactive technology stands out for allowing museumgoers to have a dialogue with survivors.

"It's your questions that are being answered," Smith said, adding that the replies, especially on weighty issues like forgiveness can be especially poignant. He says, "You actually see sometimes them struggling to know what to answer."

So far, the foundation has Holocaust survivors speaking in English, Hebrew and Spanish and the group hopes to get people speaking in even more languages.  [emphasis added] 

From the Aborigines in Australia to isolated tribes in Brazil to the Inuit in Canada, if they've got a language, the jews will have a holohoax hologram that will speak to them.

Holocaust survivors' stories are being preserved with holograms
https://nypost.com/2019/01/14/holocaust-survivors-stories-are-being-preserved-with-holograms/

DALLAS — Max Glauben was 17 and had already lost his mother, father and brother at the hands of the Nazis when US troops rescued him while he was on a death march from one German concentration camp to another.

The recollections of the Dallas resident who as a Jew in Poland survived the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi concentration camps are now being preserved in a way that will allow generations to come to ask his image questions. Glauben, who turns 91 on Monday, is the latest Holocaust survivor recorded in such a way by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation. The Los Angeles-based foundation has recorded 18 interactive testimonies with Holocaust survivors over the last several years and executive director Stephen Smith says they're in a "race against time" as they work to add more, seeking both a diversity in experiences and testimonies in a variety of languages.

"I thought that my knowledge could cure the hatred and the bigotry and the killings in this world if somebody can listen to my story, my testimony and be educated even after I'm gone," Glauben said.

Smith says that while the foundation founded in 1994 by film director Steven Spielberg has about 55,000 audiovisual testimonies about genocides in dozens of languages — the majority from the Holocaust — the interactive technology stands out for allowing museumgoers to have a dialogue with survivors.

"It's your questions that are being answered," Smith said, adding that the replies, especially on weighty issues like forgiveness can be especially poignant. He says, "You actually see sometimes them struggling to know what to answer."

So far, the foundation has Holocaust survivors speaking in English, Hebrew and Spanish and the group hopes to get people speaking in even more languages.

"It's so powerful when it's in your mother tongue and you're looking the person in the eye and you are hearing nuanced language coming back that's your own language," Smith said.

For more than a year now, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center has featured the survivors' images in a special theater. Museum CEO Susan Abrams says that when visitors interact with the images, the impact is often obvious: "People get teary; people laugh."

"Our audience comes to feel that they know these survivors somewhat intimately because they're having a small group conversation and in that moment, pretty much everything else fades away," Abrams said.

The Illinois museum is one of four currently featuring the images. Other museums are in Houston, Indiana and New York. The Holocaust museum in Dallas will start showing them starting in September after it opens in a new location and with a new name — the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

The Dallas museum currently brings in survivors to talk to students and has found that's often the most meaningful part of their visit, according to President and CEO Mary Pat Higgins. This technology ensures that can continue, she said.

"Our survivors are aging and so in 20 years we won't have any survivors who are still able to do that themselves," she said.

Smith said the images can appear on a flat screen or be projected in a way that appears to be three-dimensional. Like Illinois, Dallas is building a special theater so the image will appear three-dimensional on a stage.

Modal TriggerMax Glauben sitting in an interactive green screen room while filming a piece for the Dallas Holocaust Museum in Dallas.

"It's actually video that responds to human voice commands," he said. "And all that's happening is rather than you watching a linear testimony, all the bits of the testimony are broken up and then when you ask it a question it finds that piece of video and plays it for you."

JT Buzanga, assistant curator at the Holocaust Museum Houston, said the uniqueness of the interactive testimonies gives visitors a reason to return.

"It's something that makes the connection that people want to remember and want to come back," Buzanga said.

Glauben, who has made it his mission to tell people about the Holocaust, helped found the Dallas museum. He says that after he lost his family, he told himself he would "do anything possible to educate the people and let them know what kind of tragedy this was."

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New technology allows Holocaust survivors to tell their stories for all time
The technology is providing a way for future generations to interact with a hologram-style likenesses of Holocaust survivors.
https://religionnews.com/2023/01/26/holocaust-survivors-story-to-live-on-in-interactive-exhibit-in-boston-museum/

David Schaecter is 93 and he is running out of time.

He has dedicated the past 60 years to recounting his struggle for survival in Auschwitz, his escape and how he pieced his life together in the United States after losing his entire family in the Holocaust.

As he marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday (Jan. 27), Schaecter knows his days of travel and in-person testimony-giving will soon end.

So this week he agreed to a weeklong recording of his life story using a new technology that will allow future generations to interact with a hologram-style likeness of him.

That story will form the base of an exhibit at Boston's future Holocaust museum, which is scheduled to open in 2025.

"All children, but especially Jewish children, need to know who they are, what they are and what happened," said Schaecter on a lunch break during the filming in a Miami studio. "I'm the guy who would like to tell them what happened."

The technology, produced by the USC Shoah Foundation's Dimensions in Testimonies project, records Holocaust survivors' answers to about 1,000 questions on individual video clips. Later, using natural-language technology, programmers transform each answer into a search term. In a museum or classroom setting, people can pose a question to a two-dimensional life-size image of the survivor and see and hear the survivor's answer in real time.

Schaecter is the 62nd Holocaust survivor to undergo the marathon taping for the interactive display. As the number of survivors who can share their stories dwindles, the technology is providing a way for museums and schools to keep the memory of the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their allies from being forgotten.

Jody Kipnis, the co-founder of a Boston Holocaust museum, said she and her partner Todd Ruderman first experienced the hologram-style technology at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.

"We knew we wanted that exhibit and we knew we wanted David," she said. "This is as close to speaking to a Holocaust survivor as (one) can get after the survivors are gone."

Since the technology first became available 10 years ago, 14 Holocaust museums (including 11 in the United States) have featured exhibits with survivors using the interactive technology.

Schaecter is an old pro at telling his story. He was among the founders of the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach and has devoted countless hours meeting with grade school, high school and university students to tell them about his life.

When Schaecter was 11, he was taken with his mother, two younger sisters and an older brother from his home in what was Czechoslovakia to the Auschwitz camp in Poland. Upon arrival, he was separated from his mother and sisters and never saw them again. He and his brother spent 18 months in Auschwitz and were transported to the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, where he spent another two years and where his brother was killed. Schaecter escaped from a train as the Germans were clearing out the camps. He arrived in the United States in 1950 and earned a degree in industrial engineering from the University of California Los Angeles.

In 2018, Kipnis and Ruderman accompanied Schaecter on a trip back to Auschwitz. When they returned, the couple started the Holocaust Legacy Foundation. Last year, they purchased a building along Boston's historic freedom trail where they plan to create a 30,000-square-foot museum.

Schaecter's testimony will be the centerpiece but it will include other interactive experiences.

"David inspired us to build this museum," Kipnis said. "We stood in front of his bunker no. 8, and he said to us: 'Hear me, listen to me, be my voicepiece and tell my story.'"

For Schaecter, who lost so much, the new technology is a chance to give testimony on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million children under 12 who lost their lives in the Holocaust and will never have a chance to speak.

"Those 1.5 million neshamot," he said, using the Hebrew plural for "souls," "need to be remembered."

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And if you listen to those 55,000 testimonies, you will find that some of the previous Jewish members of German internment camps describe Drama Programs and Swimming Pools - in their camp, during the war.

They had it tough.  Maybe the pool wasn't heated to 84 F.