Spielberg’s Holocaust foundation using survivors’ films to educate

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A collection of Holocaust survivors’ testimonies, filmed as a memorial to the millions who lost their lives in the Nazi-run death camps of World War II, has become an educational resource to teach cultural acceptance.

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Ernie Marx, 79, of Louisville, who was spared from the gas chambers at Dachau and later escaped from a prison camp in France with the help of a Roman Catholic priest, recorded his story for the archives to ensure the human survivors of the Holocaust remain part of history.

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Marx, who gives lectures on his Holocaust experiences and has taken 50 groups of schoolchildren to the Holocaust museum, said testimonies such as his are meant to be timeless lessons in a world that easily forgets the wrongs of history.

“Unfortunately there is too much ignorance floating around,” Marx said. […]

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RYAN LENZ
Associated Press
September 17, 2005
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