LOS ANGELES (KNX 1070) -- A museum exhibit appearing for the first time in Los Angeles will keep the history of the Holocaust alive, so younger generations can learn about survivors’ experiences.
“We came, all of us together, my mother, my father… I was 20 when they took me to Auschwitz,” began the video of Renee Firestone.
The 97-year-old Firestone of L.A. pre-answered tens of thousands of questions about her horrifying experience during the holocaust... Now, visitors to the newly reopened Holocaust Museum LA in Pan Pacific Park can sit down in a small dark room with a hologram of Firestone.
“My little sister Clara was killed in Auschwitz,” Firestone’s image told visitors.
Jordana Gessler said the hologram allows people to ask questions they would be uncomfortable asking an actual person. “And allow them to be more curious about this history,” she added.
Firestone was “filmed over several days, wearing that same outfit each day. The technology allows questions to be tagged and so the answers come up understanding the questions that are being asked,” according to Gessler.
Gessler said Firestone recently went to the museum and asked herself a few questions.
The exhibit is called Dimensions in Testimony. More information is available on the museum’s website.