A new online exhibit opens today on the Shoah Foundation's website that uses an original concept to draw viewers into the testimonies of five men and women, and their extraordinary lives before, during, and after the Holocaust.

Organized around an interactive map of the world that traces the survivors’ paths on five continents, Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys demonstrates how the shared experience of the Holocaust affected individuals from very diverse cultures. This dynamic educational tool—geared to students in grades 8 through 12 and the general public—utilizes four hours of testimony video clips from the Shoah Foundation’s archive, more than any other online exhibit on www.vhf.org.

Lesson plans and other teacher resources will be available to download from the website in October 2005. Surviving Auschwitz: Five Personal Journeys was made possible thanks to generous funding from Bren and Mel Simon and Bui and Herb Simon.

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