(Jewish Group) Museums race to save stories of the last Holocaust survivors amid rising antisemitism

[Behind the Aegis]

Museums and libraries from London to Albuquerque are racing to record and digitize the oral histories of the last generation of Holocaust survivors, advocates say, as the horrors of the Holocaust slip from public memory.

The big picture: Fewer than 50,000 survivors remain in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League. The very youngest survivors are now in their 80s, and some have spoken out against rising antisemitism — something they've seen before.

• At a time of rising concern about antisemitism, the growing online video archives of survivors' testimonies are essential, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tells Axios.
  
• "The need to teach the history and the universal lessons of the Holocaust couldn't be more urgent when you think about the rise of antisemitism, the rise of extremism."
  
• "When I talk to Holocaust survivors, they are alarmed. And they are sounding the warning signs."

more...

[MutantAndProud]

1. Noble goal

This is also why I’ve believed the glacially slow reform method is not viable against literal Naziism (it does meet that definition now, by the way) taking over the states, local governments, courts, and the federal system.

They have massive wealth, workforces, and technical resources; but the banks, while private, are holding currency and instruments that the US is legally able to control. What has not been controlled by them, or nationalized, is the AI which they *will* use for propaganda, tactical purposes, and deepfaking away testimony of survivors or protestors.

I have felt the repercussions myself in my personal life lately becoming much more extreme. Many thanks to Applegrove for the WWII pamphlet link on fascism. I am considering making that my signature line going forward:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-29-2023?r=3aksq