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Skulptur auf der Halde Hoheward in Recklinghausen/Herten, Abenddämmerung © Marcel R​/​stock.adobe.com
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Minister Brandes Opens HOLO-VOICES at Zeche Zollverein

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Foto: Eine Person spricht vor einem Publikum, während ein Hologramm auf der Bühne im blauen Licht erscheint. © Lars Berg​/​MKW NRW
NRW Minister Ina Brandes opened the HOLO-VOICES exhibition on the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism.
On 27 January – the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism – visitors at Zollverein experienced a particularly moving exhibition featuring the voice of a Holocaust survivor. In a small theater room, they saw a luminous video projection of Inge Auerbacher on stage, appearing as if she were physically present in the room like a hologram. She answered questions from the audience about her life – as an AI selected the responses from hundreds of original recordings to provide a match as close as possible. She spoke about her experiences in the Theresienstadt concentration camp – about meagre food, her mother’s hard work, her friend from Berlin, and her doll Marlene.

Minister for Culture and Science Ina Brandes inaugurated the exhibition HOLO-VOICES in Essen, which now enables a Europe-wide unique encounter with the virtual likeness of eyewitnesses and gives them a voice for eternity. The model for this was an installation at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, which the Minister had visited in summer 2024 during a delegation trip to research partners in the USA. Among those accompanying her at that time was TU Dortmund University President Professor Manfred Bayer, who supported the idea of creating such a place of remembrance and learning in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since then, TU Dortmund University has been the project lead for HOLO-VOICES, contributing interdisciplinary expertise on space design, technology, and interview work.

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