As time passes, and as technological advances become much more frequent and innovative, it becomes increasingly simpler to preserve history and the stories it holds. In Chicago, the Illinois Holocaust Museum has made a great stride in the preservation of stories told by increasingly dwindling survivors of one of history's most tragic events. Fritzie Fritzshall, a Holocaust survivor now living in the United States, has agreed to spend over a year on a project with the goal of educating the youth on Jewish persecution in the early to mid-twentieth century: a 3D-hologram of Fritzshall that has over 30,000 answers to around 2,000 potential questions that could be asked by people interested in the subject and her story.
I personally believe that this is a great stride towards complete preservation of events in order to educate the youth. What makes this better than reading, technically, more factual and accurate information in a textbook is that one doesn't lose the sense of individualism that a textbook can simply not convey.
https://www.apnews.com/446e1809b5b74e819b3f7efe80edcf45/New-tech,-3-D-holograms-preserve-Holocaust-survivor-stories
This is such an interesting concept, and it brings up discussions on how history will be perceived in the eyes of the future. What an incredible opportunity for Fritz to be the pilot of this trial run, and be preserved to teach kids indefinitely, beyond the limits of a normal life span.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this will be a wonderful way to educate those on history without the dryness that comes with textbooks. Instead of reading quotes, we will actually get to witness people's accounts firsthand as well as "interact" with them. Not to mention, holograms are more difficult to destroy than other historical monuments/artifacts that have been lost to time.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy to see technology make it to such levels, but I think the stories of holocaust survivors lose some of their emotion and humanity when told by some sort of hologram; we're pretty lucky to get these stories straight from people who lived them (terrible as the stories may be)
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