Ilana Lindenblatt

My favorite of those is The Ghostwriter by Philip Roth, which imagines that Anne Frank survived Auschwitz and is now hiding in the Berkshires. There was a book on bestseller lists a few years back, a romance called The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which, no way, thank you very much.

My favorite of those is The Ghostwriter by Philip Roth, which imagines that Anne Frank survived Auschwitz and is now hiding in the Berkshires. There was a book on bestseller lists a few years back, a romance called The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which, no way, thank you very much.

Yes, I do know that The Brutalist doesn't have actual Holocaust scenes, and I know it's supposed to be great, but when I heard the title for the first time, I heard The Brutalest, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-E-S-T, and I thought, finally, someone is telling it as it is. All this said, I would watch The Debt any day of the week.

Yes, I do know that The Brutalist doesn't have actual Holocaust scenes, and I know it's supposed to be great, but when I heard the title for the first time, I heard The Brutalest, spelled B-R-U-T-A-L-E-S-T, and I thought, finally, someone is telling it as it is. All this said, I would watch The Debt any day of the week.

In my screening of Jesse Eisenberg's Oscar-winning 3G film about cousins visiting Poland on a Holocaust tour, A Real Pain, which sets questions about what kind of pain matters against the backdrop of a Holocaust tour, when the cousins arrived for a tour of the concentration camp their grandmother was imprisoned in, an old couple seated in front of us stood up and walked out.

In my screening of Jesse Eisenberg's Oscar-winning 3G film about cousins visiting Poland on a Holocaust tour, A Real Pain, which sets questions about what kind of pain matters against the backdrop of a Holocaust tour, when the cousins arrived for a tour of the concentration camp their grandmother was imprisoned in, an old couple seated in front of us stood up and walked out.

What I think when I see that is that I'm not sure any of us really survived the Holocaust. The gold standard of Holocaust education has always been, of course, the personal, lived experience testimony from the mouth of a Holocaust survivor directly to an attentive listener, mostly in an auditorium of students or to visitors of a Holocaust museum.

What I think when I see that is that I'm not sure any of us really survived the Holocaust. The gold standard of Holocaust education has always been, of course, the personal, lived experience testimony from the mouth of a Holocaust survivor directly to an attentive listener, mostly in an auditorium of students or to visitors of a Holocaust museum.

There are still roughly 220,000 survivors, and their median age is 87, according to the Claims Conference, the nonprofit organization that negotiates and distributes funds to Holocaust survivors and the social service agencies that support them worldwide. Of the surviving survivors, the largest population live in Israel.

There are still roughly 220,000 survivors, and their median age is 87, according to the Claims Conference, the nonprofit organization that negotiates and distributes funds to Holocaust survivors and the social service agencies that support them worldwide. Of the surviving survivors, the largest population live in Israel.

There are only around 35,000 remaining in the United States, and fewer than 15,000 in New York. All of a sudden, the post-survivor era is upon us. This crisis has been on the horizon for a long time, but what is the best approach for replicating the experience of talking to a survivor? Meaning, what is the next best thing?

There are only around 35,000 remaining in the United States, and fewer than 15,000 in New York. All of a sudden, the post-survivor era is upon us. This crisis has been on the horizon for a long time, but what is the best approach for replicating the experience of talking to a survivor? Meaning, what is the next best thing?

In 2014, the USC Shoah Foundation, the Spielberg-founded organization that has recorded more than 60,000 firsthand testimonies of Holocaust survivors, worked with a few partners to pilot a program called Dimensions in Testimony. Visitors use an interactive screen to ask a cross-section of those survivors questions about their time during the war and receive a pre-recorded answer.

In 2014, the USC Shoah Foundation, the Spielberg-founded organization that has recorded more than 60,000 firsthand testimonies of Holocaust survivors, worked with a few partners to pilot a program called Dimensions in Testimony. Visitors use an interactive screen to ask a cross-section of those survivors questions about their time during the war and receive a pre-recorded answer.

Thanks to advancing technology, the computer can map the question to one of the many the survivor answered during his or her interview with the foundation. The first person to participate was a man named Pinkas Guter, who, as a child, hid in a bunker during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising before he was deported to Majdanek and then other camps.

Thanks to advancing technology, the computer can map the question to one of the many the survivor answered during his or her interview with the foundation. The first person to participate was a man named Pinkas Guter, who, as a child, hid in a bunker during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising before he was deported to Majdanek and then other camps.

During the pandemic, the foundation put dimensions in testimony online, and you can find Pincus there now, sitting in a chair against a black background, blinking, smiling, waiting for your questions. Hello, reads the display. Let's have a chat. Me. Do you have a tattoo? Pincus. I do not have a tattoo because in Majdanek, they did not have tattoos. They actually put numbers underneath your tag.

During the pandemic, the foundation put dimensions in testimony online, and you can find Pincus there now, sitting in a chair against a black background, blinking, smiling, waiting for your questions. Hello, reads the display. Let's have a chat. Me. Do you have a tattoo? Pincus. I do not have a tattoo because in Majdanek, they did not have tattoos. They actually put numbers underneath your tag.

I had a red tag with a P in it. And underneath, on a white piece of cloth, was my number. Then, last summer, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan partnered with Shoah and USC Libraries to record the testimonies of 10 survivors who are frequent speakers for the museum.

I had a red tag with a P in it. And underneath, on a white piece of cloth, was my number. Then, last summer, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan partnered with Shoah and USC Libraries to record the testimonies of 10 survivors who are frequent speakers for the museum.