New Dimensions in Testimony on NPR

New Dimensions in Testimony has been a work of passion for USC Shoah Foundation since 2010. After years of development at the University of Southern California including with USC Institute for Creative Technologies and with content developer Conscience Display, the program is now reaching audiences in museums around the world.

At the Shoah Foundation, I was able to converse with a still-living Holocaust survivor named Pinchas Gutter. Pinchas wasn’t really there, though; I was chatting with a hologram of Pinchas, which appeared on a flat, 2D display in the hallway. The conversation felt almost absurdly natural, due in large part to the foundation’s development of its own natural language processing system. At one point, I realized I felt rude interrupting a video.

Kori Street is Educator-in-Residence at Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre’s Holocaust Education Week

Street will lead presentations and workshops throughout the week-long event, which this year is centered on the post-Holocaust period and the specific events, or “pivotal moments,” that have shaped our understanding of the Holocaust.

New Dimensions in Testimony Now Installed at Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City

Visitors to the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City can now interact with the testimonies of Holocaust survivors Pinchas Gutter and Eva Schloss through USC Shoah Foundation’s New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT) pilot installation. It will be at the museum now through December 22, 2017.

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