Tree of Testimony at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
"The Tree of Testimony is a 70-screen video sculpture wall that continuously plays interviews with survivors from the extensive USC Shoah Foundation library. The exhibit cycles through all 52,000 testimonies in the Shoah Foundation catalogue at least once each year. The monitors allow visitors to choose to listen to individual survivor stories from among many presented. The Tree of Testimony focuses on the importance of each individual survivor experience. In the words of Holocaust expert Professor Yehuda Bauer, survivor stories “are all the same, and they are all totally different one from another...they are a story of a people, and they are the story of our people.” This collection is impressively comprehensive, without sacrificing the voices of survivors. Testimonies are provided in an array of languages, and touch on myriad aspects of life during the Holocaust. Visit the Tree of Testimony and become immersed in a space where history is kept alive through thousands of surviving voices.”
Works Cited:
"Virtual Tour - LAMH." Virtual Tour - LAMH. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust , n.d. Web. 3 Mar. 2017. <http://www.lamoth.org/exhibitions/virtual-tour/>.