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English later this
year. Based on years
of research at Yad
Vashem and other in-
stitutions, it draws
upon thousands of
archival documents,
photographs, films,
and videoed testi-
monies. The program
is structured around
key issues and in-
cludes a ..data base
that enables users to
navigate through
both an historical pre-
sentation and the tes-
timonies of survivors.
Among the key is-
sues explored in the
inaugural CD-ROM
are the survivors' feel-
ings of loss, their com-
mitment to life and
Jewish identity, the
Survivors in camp uniforms arrive in Israel in 1948.
broad issue of
accelerated process of forgetting," vengeance (and its contrasting
Mr. Shalev and his staff have forms), the choice of a destination
been grappling with the problem after the war, and the survivors'
of "how to create meaningful experience of integration in Israel
forms of remembrance for young- and the United States. The data
sters to whom memory is rele- base, which contains hundreds of
vant only to their own existence." documents, photographs, and .
As the moving force behind the maps, as well as filmed taped tes-
planned changes, Mr. Shalev — timonies, can be accessed at any
a sabra, a former IDF Chief Ed- point in the program.
ucational Officer, and the first
To encourage a sense of per-
head of the institution who is not sonal involvement, turning points
himself a Holocaust survivor — set at critical junctures invite the
places great stress on the need to user to make decisions that will
convey not just the history but carry him down varying paths
the experience and lessons of the along his journey. "The program's
Holocaust through the means to uniqueness," write its authors,
which young people are accus- "lies in the way it interlocks the
tomed — and which will domi- study of history with the user's
nate education in the 21st emotional experience." High
century.
school students who tested it at
Highlighting the shift away the International School for Holo-
from the flat chronological, pic- caust Studies, they add, "made
torial, and statistical presenta- special mention of the identifica-
tion that has characterized the tion and empathy they felt with
museum until now, he speaks of the survivors who appeared on
pursuing "a more personal view the screen and, through them,
of events."
with Holocaust survivors in gen-
" Y oung people want to be clos- eral."
er to people themselves, to fam-
"Personalization' is a .change
ilies, to their experiences and in education being adopted
reactions," he explains. "They throughout the world," says Mr.
want to know what kind of peo- Shalev, "and learning what hap-
ple the [victims and survivors] pened to a single victim can have
were before the Holocaust, how universal meaning. For example,
they lived from day to day during how a Jew acted during the Holo-
the Holocaust, how they strug- caust is related to the traditions
gled to survive and maintain hu- he imbibed before the war, which
man values, how they kept family can explain why a young person
and community connections chose to remain with his parents
alive."
rather than leave them to join the
One way of enhancing this ex- partisans."
periential approach is give stu-
Harnessing a combination of
dents access to first-hand scholarship and technology to
testimonies. To this end — and personalize history for a gener-
to serve the hundreds of thou- ation growing up over half a cen-
sands of youngsters who cannot tury after the terrible fact is
visit the facilities in Jerusalem clearly a welcome development
— Yad Vashem is also develop- in Holocaust studies.
ing a series of multimedia pro-
Equally pertinent for Mr.
grams. Designed for both school Shalev and the other authors of
and home use-with a 486/33 PC the changes about to take place
(plus sound blaster and CD-ROM at Yad Vashem, they are also
drive, the first of these programs probably the one way of ensuring
— "Return to-Life: The Story of the perpetuation of what that in-
Ghetto and Concentration Camp stitution stands for: remem-
Survivors" — will be available in brance.

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