Lillian & Larry Goodman Foundations Holography Theater
Meet Our Virtual Survivors
Imagine sitting in a theater listening to Auschwitz survivor Fritzie Fritzshall as she recounts her harrowing story of the Holocaust, in which she, as a 13-year-old, was ripped from her home and transported to the notorious concentration camp where most of her family was murdered. Imagine asking her questions about life during the Holocaust, about those Upstanders who risked their lives to save her, about her messages for our world today.
After watching a short intro film, you too will be able to ask questions to the holograms of Fritzie Fritzshall, Aaron Elster, and other Survivors in this award-winning innovative exhibition.
High-definition holographic interview recordings paired with voice recognition technology enables Survivors to tell their deeply moving personal stories and respond to questions from the audience, inviting visitors to have a personalized, one-on-one ‘conversation.’
Debuting at Experience360 are three new holograms: Rodi Glass, Marion Deichmann, and Kizito Kalima, Tutsi Survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He is the first featured survivor who was not in the Holocaust.
As seen on 60 MinutesNow Playing: Week of 2/9 to 2/15
Eva Mozes Kor was born in the village of Ports, Romania, in 1934. Eva’s father, Alexander Mozes, was a landowner and farmer. He and his wife, Jaffa, had four daughters: Edit, Aliz, and twins Eva and Miriam. Given the Nazi regime’s increasing encroachment into Eastern Europe, the family lived in constant fear of a Nazi invasion alongside having to deal with the everyday experience of prejudice against the Jews.
When Eva and Miriam were six, their village became occupied by a Hungarian Nazi armed guard. After being under occupation for four years, the family was transported to a ghetto in Simleu Silvaniei. Just a few weeks later, the family was loaded with other Jewish prisoners onto a cattle car and transported to Auschwitz.
After a 70-hour journey without any food or water, Eva and her family emerged from the crowded and over-packed cattle car. The family tried to stay together but were eventually forced to separate. This would be the very last time that Eva would see her father, mother, and two older sisters ever again.
Eva and Miriam were able to stay together, but they became part of a group of children who were used as human test subjects in genetic experiments under the direction of Josef Mengele. Approximately 3,000 were abused, and many of them died as a result of experimentation. Eva soon became grievously ill, but miraculously she survived.
After the camp was liberated, Eva and Miriam were the sole survivors of their family.
What will you ask Eva? Visit her Hologram in person to witness her story.
Learn More About Survivors:
View Survivor ProfilesThe Lillian and Larry Goodman Foundations Holography Theater features Dimensions in Testimony (DiT), developed by USC Shoah Foundation and Interactive Interviews, an initiative by USC Libraries and USC Digital Repository, developed in collaboration with Illinois Holocaust Museum.
Photo credits: Scott Edwards, Ron Gould, Robert F. Kusel