The last living Holocaust survivors are dying. Can technology keep their testimonies alive?
Alexander Korb Researches Non-German Perpetrators in Visual History Archive
Evy Stumpff
Since October, Evy Stumpff has been an unconventional Junior Intern with USC Shoah Foundation.
While the rest of the young interns have spent the past several months analyzing, together, what attitudes breed hatred and intolerance and how they can spread positive moral authority and become active participants in civil society – learning from USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness activities and the Visual History Archive – Stumpff has had to leap over one major obstacle to do the same work.
In 'The Last Goodbye' at the Tribeca Virtual Arcade this month, the viewer wears a virtual-reality headset as a survivor recounts his ordeal at Majdanek. It’s an experience more authentic than 'Shoah,' its producer says.
I've done a lot of interviews as a reporter, but none like the conversation I had with Pinchas Gutter.
Gutter is an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Toronto -- and I spoke with a digital version of him.
Gutter was the first to participate in a new format being pioneered by the USC Shoah Foundation. He sat in 2014 for more than 20 hours of interviews, recorded by 116 cameras, and answered about 1,500 questions.