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With some help from her daughter’s Second Life avatar, Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr met with a group of the virtual world’s citizens to share her personal experience of the horrors of genocide.
The video, while only a few minutes long, provides a brief glimpse of the horrors she endured, including an encounter with the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele. The lecture becomes especially noteworthy in light of the technology being leveraged — the 87-year-old Starr has given many similar talks on her experiences throughout the past 30 years, but Second Life allowed her to reach a much wider audience without the burden of travel.
The full lecture is over an hour long, but features an in-depth question and answer session with members of the audience. A video is available from Second Life user GeoMeek.
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Living Memory: A Holocaust Survivor Speaks in Second Life [New World Notes, via GamePolitics]
