This entire project is dedicated to Hella Heilbronn, who graciously shared with me her life story, as the first Holocaust survivor I met and interviewed. Her bravery and strong determination to educate my generation inspired me to become an advocate for keeping the history of the Holocaust alive.

As we look around the world today, we see consistent problems with racism, religious intolerance, and an increasing political divide. This is even more relevant as witnesses of history and survivors are dying taking their memories and experiences with them. So an important question to ponder over is how the use of technology can be used to provide a personal narrative to teach history. Through the use of VR and immersive experiences, technology can change our behavior and understanding by making us a witness to history. In this planned immersive exhibit, the viewer becomes a Nazi looted painting whose truth is hidden in shame as it traverses continents from being a sentimental object hung on a Jewish family’s home, to being stored in a Nazi inventory, to being exhibited in a museum or art gallery. This type of technology will enable viewers to bridge emotion and memory together creating a space where they can unite and empathize together while carrying their experiences and learning with them.