{"id":4387,"date":"2025-07-17T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/?page_id=4387"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:17:56","slug":"eighty-years-after-auschwitz-virtual-reality-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/eighty-years-after-auschwitz-virtual-reality-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Auschwitz: 80 Years After (VR Exhibit)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We see in our students the future of Holocaust education<\/span><\/i><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the students in Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz\u2019s Fall 2024 course on the Holocaust had the option to create (and submit as their final assignment) virtual exhibits about one aspect of life and death in Auschwitz.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row colSet\">\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6\"><br \/>\n<div style=\"padding:0 0 0 0;position:relative;text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 16 \/ 9; width: 100%;\" title=\"YouTube video - LGBTQIA+ Men &amp; Women in Auschwitz (SP25) - Bella Apgar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8zuMb7rHRw?si=zhHQlemmCUnQG17G\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6\"><br \/>\n<div style=\"padding:0 0 0 0;position:relative;text-align:center; vertical-align:top!important\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 16 \/ 9; width: 100%;\" title=\"YouTube video - Jean Am\u00e9ry (SP25) - Maddisyn Vaccaro\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMYA7xRLdzA?si=fDE0FzZSXtaowL6z\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The students built their exhibits on the popular gaming platform Fortnite, after receiving training from CleverLike Studios. Maddisyn Vaccaro, a student in the class and an intern for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/dh\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Humanities Program<\/a>, provided technical assistance to her classmates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"accordions\">\n<div class=\"item\"><p class=\"question\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"fa-stack\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-plus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-minus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><\/span> <b>The Impetus: Who will Tell Their Stories?<\/b><\/p><div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The slow and inevitable passing of the survivor generation poses a challenge to the field of Holocaust education. We have relied for decades upon survivors to share their stories, draw attention to the genocide, and inspire empathy and resolve within our communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHGS trains students to embrace their roles as researcher\/story-tellers. We see in them the future of Holocaust and genocide education. This demands more than teaching students to analyze historical sources and compose thoughtful papers, read by their professors alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helping students create new knowledge of the past confers the responsibility to ensure that they can share their wisdom effectively. This means embracing the contemporary technologies upon which the younger generations rely\u2014where they may be found and moved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"item\"><p class=\"question\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"fa-stack\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-plus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-minus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><\/span> <b>Auschwitz: An Overview<\/b><\/p><div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Red Army liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. By that point, the Nazis had evacuated most of the inmates\u2014cruelly on so-called \u201cdeath marches\u201d\u2014along with most of the guards and civilian staff. They had also destroyed much of the camp\u2019s physical infrastructure to mask their crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row colSet\">\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<div id=\"attachment_4389\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4389\" class=\"wp-image-4389 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Aschwitz-Gate-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Main gate of Auschwitz after liberation\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Aschwitz-Gate-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Aschwitz-Gate-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Aschwitz-Gate.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Main gate of Auschwitz after liberation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<div id=\"attachment_4391\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4391\" class=\"wp-image-4391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-300x215.jpeg\" alt=\"Children wearing adult-sized, striped prisoner uniforms, standing behind barbed wire.\" width=\"263\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-300x215.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-1024x735.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-768x552.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-1536x1103.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-Kids-2048x1471.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children at liberation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crimes. The Nazis transported more than 1.3 million individuals to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. This included nearly 1.1 million Jewish civilians (or, rather, civilians identified as Jews by the Nazis and their allies), of whom they murdered nearly 1 million. Other inmates included Polish political prisoners, Roma (arrested similarly on racial grounds), Soviet prisoners of war, and still others, including members of what we now identify as the LGBTQ+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row colSet\">\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<div id=\"attachment_4397\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4397\" class=\"wp-image-4397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwtz-Map-300x197.gif\" alt=\"Map of Europe featuring transports to death camps.\" width=\"267\" height=\"175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of major deportations to camps, 1942-1944 (USHMM)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 \">\n<div id=\"attachment_4401\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4401\" class=\"wp-image-4401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Auschwitz-from-the-Sky.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white picture of Auschwitz from the air. It is large.\" width=\"145\" height=\"175\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auschwitz from a US spy plane, 1944<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crimes. Auschwitz comprised three camps, as well as numerous subcamps. Not only did the Nazis implement at Auschwitz a new method of gassing, utilizing the notorious pesticide Zyklon-B (hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid), but they also used the massive camp system as a source of enslaved labor and theft. The camp produced synthetic rubber for the German Army.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4398\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4398\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Zyklon-B-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Period picture of Zyklon-B canister\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Zyklon-B-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Zyklon-B-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/holocaust\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2025\/07\/Zyklon-B.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zyklon-B canister<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crimes. Inmates whom the Nazis did not murdered upon arrival lived and died on starvation diets. Their overseers tormented them with tortures and humiliations. Doctors conducted brutal experiments on patients, many of them children and Roma, in the name of advancing racial and military sciences. Caged behind electrified barbed wire, the innocent lived moment-to-moment in a world of unpredictable horrors.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"item\"><p class=\"question\" tabindex=\"0\"><span class=\"fa-stack\"><i class=\"fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-plus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><i class=\"fa fa-minus fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\"><\/i><\/span> <b>Resources for Further Education<\/b><\/p><div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expert Overviews<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.auschwitz.org\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Auschwitz Museum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/auschwitz\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USHMM Encyclopedia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holocaust Testimonies<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vha.usc.edu\/home\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USH Shoah: Visual History Archive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (over 1,000 videos available with free login)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortunoff.library.yale.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (available on the Ramapo network)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Memoirs and Reflections<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charlotte Delbo, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auschwitz and After<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eli Wiesel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Night<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gisella Perl, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was a Doctor in Auschwitz<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Halina Birenbaum, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hope is the Last to Die<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heda Margolius Kov\u00e1ly, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under a Cruel Star<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imre Kurt\u00e9sz, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fatelessness<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olga Lengyel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Chimneys<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primo Levi, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drowned and the Saved<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Primo Levi, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survival at Auschwitz<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rudolf Vrba, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Escaped from Auschwitz<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tadeusz Borowski, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (fictionalized)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viktor Frankl, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man\u2019s Search for Meaning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Witold Pilecki, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Witold\u2019s Report from Auschwitz<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zalman Gradowski, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the Heart of Hell<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Documentary Films<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">999: The Forgotten Girls<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2024), directed by Heather Dune Macadam<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State and the \u201cFinal Solution<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (2005) directed by Laurence Rees and Catherine Tatge<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Day in Auschwitz<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2015), directed by Steve Percel and featuring survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shoah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1985), directed by Claude Lanzmann<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent Narrative Films of Excellence<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son of Saul<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2015), directed by L\u00e1szlo Nemes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zone of Interest<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023), directed by Beth Lane<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academic Books<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sarah M. Cushman, Joanne Pettitt, and Dominic Williams, eds.,\u00a0<em>The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laurence Rees, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auschwitz: A New History<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nikolaus Wachsmann, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Robert Jan van Pelt,\u00a0<em>Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away\u00a0<\/em>(2017)<\/p>\n<p>Robert Jan van Pelt,\u00a0<em>The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial\u00a0<\/em>(2002)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sybille Steinbacher, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Auschwitz: A History<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, editors, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Gratitude and Credit<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHGS thanks first its incredible students; those who contributed to this project and those who chose the alternate assignment. We thank Maddisyn Vaccaro, without whom this project would not have come to fruition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHGS would like to thank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/hgs\/faculty\/sara-koenig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Sarah Koenig<\/a> and the Digital Humanities Program for their partnership, which trained some fifty Ramapo students across multiple classes. Dr. Koenig allocated funds from her NEH Grant to support the program. Her students created an exhibition on six American freedoms. CHGS Pedagogy Programs Administrator Colleen Tambuscio co-led an additional CleverLike workshop for local educators, as well as Ramapo faculty and staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHGS and DHP would also like to express our deepest gratitude to the Office of the Provost and the Ramapo College Foundation for a grant that made this all possible.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We see in our students the future of Holocaust education To commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the students in Dr. Jacob Ari Labendz\u2019s Fall 2024 course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1011,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Auschwitz: 80 Years After (VR Exhibit) - 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