Margaret kagan holocaust survivors interviews today

Margaret Kagan.

By Sally Stieglitz July 2, In , director Steven Spielberg told the story of Oskar Schindler, a German factory worker who became an unlikely hero. It is now in its 30th anniversary year. The Visual History Archive VHA is a digital testimony repository with nearly 57, testimonies available at nearly access sites worldwide.

McKibben said there are more than two million searchable names and , photographs and secondary materials in thirty-seven languages. Before any testimonies were recorded, interviewers and videographers were trained in a methodology developed in consultation with historians, psychologists and experts in oral history.

Margaret Kagan was born in Lithuania and was imprisoned in the Kaunas Ghetto.

After the 50,th testimony was recorded in January , cataloging work began in earnest. A team of more than one hundred indexers spent seven years indexing the original collections. Testimonies were archived minute by minute, using controlled vocabulary for the specific topics, people, and geographic locations discussed. There are currently 68, index terms, McKibben said, the majority of which are geographic locations.

The site might be a childhood home, a ghetto, or another significant place. This way, viewers can learn from both the testimonies and the surroundings. Available through IWitness, its free educational website, it uses natural language processing and conversational artificial intelligence to allow students and educators to converse in real time with survivors.

Approximately 1, questions were created for DIT and interviews with each participating survivor over a three to five day period. DIT interviewers asked open-ended life story questions as well as some personal questions. The DIT recordings were subsequently cut into response clips and assigned metadata to match questions with answers, allowing for variations in how each question might be phrased.