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As the last generation of Holocaust survivors die, is AI the future of Holocaust education?

JL;DR SUMMARY With the aging population of Holocaust survivors posing a challenge to traditional Holocaust education, new initiatives are leveraging AI technology to preserve these vital personal testimonies. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Holocaust SurvivorsHolocaust EducationShoah FoundationAi TechnologyInteractivitySonia WarshawskiEthical DebatesStoryfileBlue CardTestimony Preservation

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"At a Brooklyn synagogue on a recent Monday afternoon, a video of Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski played on a two-foot-tall box."
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
"Warshawski, who survived three concentration camps and ran a tailoring shop in Kansas City until 2023, had made it part of her lifes mission to tell her story wherever she could."
New York, United States
"20 schools and community centers across the New York area over the past year, with plans to expand nationwide."
Międzyrzec, Lubusz, Poland
"Warshawski grew up in Midzyrzec, Poland, and was 17 years old when she and her family were forced into a ghetto."
Majdanek, Lublin, Poland
"Sonia and her mother were deported to the Majdanek death camp, where she watched Nazis march her mother to her death via gas chamber."
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Warshawski was then sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was forced to spread her fellow prisoners ashes as fertilizer."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"and then to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was shot in the chest on liberation day."
Utah, United States
"Last year, a Utah-based tech startup called SchoolAI drew controversy for its AI-generated version of Anne Frank, which spits out responses that Frank never wrote herself."
Germany
"Henrik Schnemann, a German historian who tested the chatbot, found AI-Frank avoided holding Nazis responsible for her death and spun her story in an overly positive light."
Burlington, Vermont, United States
"Hannah Feuer joined the Forward as a general assignment reporter in May 2025 after two years as a culture reporter at Seven Days, an independent weekly in Burlington, Vermont."
Washington DC, United States
"Originally from the Washington, D.C., area, she is a 2023 graduate of Northwestern Universitys Medill School of Journalism."

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