National World War II Museum and Cincinnati Holocaust Center Open Dimensions in Testimony Installations

Fri, 02/05/2021 - 2:19pm

Two museums have opened installations of Dimensions in Testimony, USC Shoah Foundation's interactive biography series. 

In New Orleans, visitors to the National World War II Museum can interact with Staff Sergeant Alan Moskin, the first WWII Liberator filmed for Dimensions in Testimony. Moskin was a member of the 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, that liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria. The exhibition runs through July 25, 2021.

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Holocaust Remembrance Event Brings USC Shoah Testimony to Walls of Geneva Synagogue

Mon, 01/25/2021 - 4:34pm

As part of USC Shoah Foundation’s collaborations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, excerpts of seven Dimensions in Testimony interviews are being projected on to the facade of Beit Yaakov – Geneva's Great Synagogue. 

Dimensions in Testimony is an initiative by USC Shoah Foundation that enables people to ask questions that prompt real-time responses from pre-recorded video interviews with Holocaust survivors and other witnesses to genocide. 

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First Museum Dedicated to Testimony

Thu, 10/01/2020 - 11:00am

An Unprecedented Partnership with Orlando Holocaust Museum for Hope & Humanity

The Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida has partnered with USC Shoah Foundation to be a content and creative partner in the development of the new Holocaust museum to be located in downtown Orlando. This marks the first time USC Shoah Foundation has teamed with a Holocaust museum as they design, develop, and implement a ground-up and permanent museum-wide exhibition.

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USC Shoah Foundation, National Historical Museums in Sweden, and the Institution for Jewish Culture in Sweden Begin Filming Socially Distant Swedish-Language Dimensions in Testimony Interviews

Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:07am

USC Shoah Foundation—working with on-site partners National Historical Museums in Sweden and the Institution for Jewish Culture in Sweden—recently began filming two Swedish-language Dimensions in Testimony interviews in Stockholm, Sweden utilizing innovative social distancing and filming techniques.

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USC Shoah Foundation Begins Beta Testing of the First German Language Dimensions in Testimony at Deutsches Technikmuseum

Mon, 03/09/2020 - 11:07am
Museum Visitors engage with Interactive Biography of Acclaimed Cellist and German-Born Holocaust Survivor Anita Lasker Wallfisch.
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Dimensions in Testimony theater established at new Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

Sun, 10/06/2019 - 12:00pm

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum this month became the second in the world to install a permanent theater to display Dimensions in Testimony – an interactive, holographic project developed by USC Shoah Foundation that will allow visitors to interact with a Holocaust survivor long after they are no longer with us.

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Swedish History Museum’s first-ever Holocaust exhibit a success

Wed, 09/11/2019 - 9:46am

Early this year, when the Swedish History Museum opened its exhibit about the Holocaust – an exhibit that includes USC Shoah Foundation testimonies and some of its interactive biographies – it marked the state-funded museum’s first foray into the topic.

The exhibit has been a major success, say two Swedish museum professionals who played a prominent role in the installation, and who came to USC Shoah Foundation’s headquarters in Los Angeles last week to discuss taking the partnership to the next level.

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In memory of Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor and Holocaust educator Eva Kor

Mon, 07/08/2019 - 9:30am

USC Shoah Foundation is saddened by the recent loss of Eva Kor, a Holocaust survivor who – along with her twin sister – endured cruel experiments conducted on her at Auschwitz, and, half a century later, sparked controversy by publicly forgiving the Nazis who tormented her and killed her parents and two older sisters.

She went on to found CANDLES Museum and Education Center in Indiana.

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Holocaust Museum Houston opens permanent display of Dimensions in Testimony

Fri, 06/21/2019 - 12:00am

Holocaust Museum Houston this weekend will become the fourth museum in the world to permanently display USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony, which enables viewers to verbally ask questions to a digital projection of survivors, and hear real-time, lifelike responses.

The new exhibit features Houston-area Holocaust survivor William J. “Bill” Morgan, a 93-year-old survivor of the Stanislawow Ghetto in western Ukraine.

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Voice of America features Dimensions in Testimony

Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:35am
The piece highlights how the interactive biographies will enable future generations to ask questions of and receive immediate answers from pre-recorded images of Holocaust survivors, long after the last of the living witnesses are gone.
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