Lower Thirds:

0:02	Inge Auerbacher | Holocaust Survivor
0:12	Report by | Katharina Abel
0:49	Prof. Manfred Bayer | President of TU Dortmund University
1:18	Prof. Manfred Bayer | President of TU Dortmund University
1:53	Inge Auerbacher | Holocaust Survivor

Script: 

00:00
+++ SOT Inge Auerbacher, Holocaust Survivor +++
"We didn’t really know where we were going. I was 7 years old at the time." +++

00:09
Inge Auerbacher is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor. In 1942, the Nazis deported her and her parents from Baden-Württemberg and detained them in the Theresienstadt ghetto. After the liberation of the ghettos, she emigrated to New York. Now she is 91 years old. So that her story isn’t lost, a few years ago she answered 1000 questions about her life.  

Her eyewitness account can now be experienced in a special way at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen through the Holo Voices project – as an interactive hologram. It’s a project by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and TU Dortmund University. 

00:45 (im Off)
+++ O-Ton Prof. Manfred Bayer, President of TU Dortmund University +++
"This project is a new form of remembrance culture, because we are entering a time where these people will be, unfortunately, no longer available to us in person, but that’s just the way it is, and what we are showing here, I believe, comes as close as possible to the experience of direct personal contact."+++  

01:04
A monitor projects Inge Auerbacher onto a screen, with another layer behind giving the image depth. Visitors can ask the hologram questions, and an artificial intelligence searches for the most appropriate answers.  

01:18
+++ O-Ton Manfred Bayer +++
All answers are original, so there will be no generative AI behind it that somehow would invent an answer and then perhaps runs the risk of hallucinating and reproducing something that isn’t true. Rather, it is an AI that searches for the best possible answer to a question which is then reproduced faithfully without any changes. +++ 

01:38
Two survivors can already be interviewed in this way; a third is in the works. Direct dialogue with the holograms is intended to encourage young people to engage with the darkest chapter in German history.  

01:52
+++ O-Ton Inge Auerbacher+++
Go to school, learn something, learn from other people who don’t look like you, read books, watch films, think a little. +++