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- The March of the Living Digital Archive Project, begun in 2013, aims to gather Holocaust testimony from Canadian survivors who have participated in the March of the Living. Since 1988, Holocaust survivors have traveled to Poland with young students on the March of the Living to share their Holocaust stories in the locations they transpired. In addition to gathering thousands of hours of Canadian Holocaust survivor testimony that currently exists, the project sends teams of videographers to Poland on ongoing March of the Living trips to capture the stories of the survivors, as they are being shared with the students. The goals is for these stories to serve as an important Holocaust educational resource, especially when survivors are no longer able to accompany the students on their overseas trips. The project also involves editing portions of survivor stories into smaller, more manageable anecdotes. These video vignettes are especially suitable for younger audiences raised during the Internet age. The edited segments have been posted on line at the Canadian March of the Living Digital Archive Project website, as well as featured at educational programs and public Holocaust commemoration ceremonies. The MOL Digital Archive Project differs from other Holocaust survivor archives in two major ways: 1.
* Much of the testimony is recorded in front of a live audience of young people, in the location where the survivor’s story actually took place. The transmission of memory from one generation to the next, in the very places their personal tragedies unfolded, adds a unique emotional and educational component not found in many other testimonies. 2.
* The primary purpose of the archive is not historical or academic. Rather, it is to use the survivors experiences to teach the story of the Holocaust, as well as impart humanistic and universal values, such as love, tolerance, kindness and compassion. (en)
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