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The USC Shoah Foundation today unveils a Dimensions in Testimony (DiT) interview with internationally renowned author and concert pianist Mona Golabek.
Posted on the Institute’s award-winning IWitness page in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is the first interactive DiT experience to feature a second-generation (or “2G”) descendant of a Holocaust survivor.
“I feel extremely honored to be the first 2G to have a DIT established by the USC Shoah Foundation,” Golabek said. “I have often said that my beloved parents engraved six million numbers in my heart. I think that’s why I chose a path in life – to honor their legacy and thus the legacy of all the precious souls we lost in the Holocaust.”
The USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony allows people to ask questions that elicit real-time responses from pre-recorded video interviews. Golabek’s interview was made possible by The Willesden Project, a partnership between the Institute, Golabek’s Hold On To Your Music Foundation and the Koret Foundation.
The Willesden project is rooted in The Children of Willesden Lane, Golabek’s bestseller, which tells the story of her mother Lisa Jura’s escape from Nazi-occupied Austria on the Kindertransport.
Leslie Culp, the USC Shoah Foundation’s interim director of education and outreach, said the legacy themes explored in The Children of Willesden Lane echoes with many children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.
“Mona’s story touches on many of the themes we see expressed by second- and third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors,” Culp said. “Recording her story for Dimensions in Testimony will enable people around the world to explore how a second-generation descendant carries the memory of her mother’s Kindertransport experience forward, its impact on her personal story and the legacy she builds on.”
Dimensions in Testimony was developed in 2014 in partnership with the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, with technology from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and concept from Conscience Display. Integration into IWitness is made possible through the generous support of the Snider Foundation.
To date, more than 60 survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides have been interviewed for Dimensions in Testimony. Debuting with a permanent installation featuring Pinchas Gutter at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in 2015, DiT installations are now featured in 11 museums around the world.
On February 16, Golabek will join an Echoes and Reflections webinar to share his story of survival, hope and legacy. Legacy and the Kindertransport: A Story of Intergenerational Hope will also include educational resources from the USC Shoah Foundation and Echoes & Reflections that can be integrated into the curriculum.
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