'Children need to know history and children need to know that there's so much ugliness that exists,' Schaecter said.
Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, now 93, was asked one thousand questions to help create an interactive experience at the future Boston Holocaust Museum, an effort to keep his story alive for future generationsFriday marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, and this year work is underway to open a Boston Holocaust Museum by 2025.
A key part of the experience will be that museum-goers will be able to ask direct questions to a hologram-type image of a Holocaust survivor. The recording sessions for"Dimensions in Testimony," an interactive biography using innovative technology to let people ask questions of survivors even after they've perished, are underway this week in Miami.
"We're going to be living in a world without survivors. And that direct connection between a survivor and a student, that human connection that forms in a natural conversation is something that the world is going to be missing," explained Ryan Fenton-Strauss, director of media services at the USC Shoah Foundation.
"I want these children to become my mouthpiece. I want them to tell a story that they heard. Me telling them. When I'm no longer. And that's my purpose," Schaecter said.
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