AI Program Provides Way to Immortalize Holocaust Survivors’ Experience and Life Lessons
The Holocaust Educational Trust agrees that it is vital to find ways to immortalize Holocaust survivors' experiences and life lessons, and AI and virtual reality has found a way to do exactly that. Veuer’s Chloe Hurst has the story!
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00:00The Holocaust Educational Trust agrees that it is vital to find ways to immortalize Holocaust survivors' experiences and life lessons.
00:09And AI and virtual reality has found a way to do exactly that.
00:14According to Reuters, students in the UK are learning about the horrors of the Holocaust by talking to survivors through a digital education program called Testimony 360.
00:25Karen Pollock, chief executive from the Holocaust Educational Trust, explains.
00:30Our mission is to ensure that the stories of Holocaust survivors are kept alive.
00:34That the subject of the Holocaust, which happened nearly 80 years ago, is still relevant and something that young people and future generations know about.
00:43The program films survivors answering more than 1,000 possible questions.
00:48And the AI seeks to analyze the vast database of pre-recorded answers to find appropriate responses to current questions.
00:56Testimony 360 was developed in response to a rise in reports of antisemitism.
01:02Today, we're seeing an explosion of antisemitism globally and the testimonies of people like Manfred.
01:08Preserving them and enabling that testimony to reach so many people in the future, that's the power of this new resource.
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