Dimensions in Testimony
What questions would you ask a Holocaust survivor? Now is your chance to experience history in a new way with Dimensions in Testimony, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s newest virtual intelligence exhibit at Union Terminal.
An extraordinary interactive experience.
The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center is one of ten museums in the world to feature this cutting-edge exhibit.
Using specialized recording and display technologies and next-generation natural language processing, Dimensions in Testimony allows visitors to ask two-dimensional displays of Holocaust survivors questions and receive responses in real time. Sponsored by the Harold C. Schott Foundation, this groundbreaking exhibit gives you the rare chance to engage in one-on-one conversations with survivors.
Eva's testimony will be available through Spring 2024.
Meet Eva Schloss
Eva Schloss (née Geiringer) was born in 1929, in Vienna, Austria to Erich and Fritzie Geiringer. Eva had an older brother, Heinz, with whom she was very close. They grew up in an upper middle class, non-religious Jewish family. Her father owned a shoe factory. The annexation of Austria in 1938 prompted the family to flee to the Netherlands. Eva’s father arrived in Amsterdam in 1939, and the rest of the family joined him in 1940. The Geiringers met the Frank family during their time in Amsterdam; as young girls, Eva and Anne Frank were neighbors. In 1942, the Nazis occupied the Netherlands and Eva and her family went into hiding. In 1944, on Eva’s 15th birthday, the family was betrayed and arrested by the Nazis, deported first to Westerbork transit camp, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eva’s father and brother died on a death march en route to the Mauthausen concentration camp, while Eva and her mother remained at Auschwitz where they were liberated by the Soviet Army in 1945. After the war, they moved back to Amsterdam and reconnected with Otto Frank, the only survivor of the Frank family.
Eva moved to London and in 1952, married Zvi Schloss and they later had three daughters. Eva’s mother Fritzie married Otto Frank , making Eva a posthumous stepsister to Anne Frank. Eva is a cofounder of the Anne Frank Trust UK and is active in sharing her testimony around the world. This interview took place in December 2015 in Los Angeles, CA.
USC Shoah Foundation
Dimensions in Testimony is an initiative of USC Shoah Foundation to record and display testimony in a way that will preserve the dialogue between Holocaust survivors and learners far into the future. Collaborating within the project are Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, with technology by USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and concept by Conscience Display.
Funding for Dimensions in Testimony was provided in part by Pears Foundation, Louis. F. Smith, Melinda Goldrich and Andrea Cayton/Goldrich Family Foundation in honor of Jona Goldrich, and Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Other partners include CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Support for local testimonies provided by Bob and Lori Fregolle and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati.
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