Students throughout San Diego County will have an opportunity draw lessons from one of the darkest periods in human history thanks to a new digital museum on wheels.
A specially built trailer that can be booked online and towed to schools and community centers offers an immersive museum experience to explain the Holocaust — how the Nazi regime systematically murdered six million European Jews during World War II.
Called Spark Interactive, the project is an initiative of the Legacy of Light Goldberg Institute for Holocaust Education and the Jewish Federation of San Diego.
The mobile museum was unveiled on Sunday at a ceremony inside a hanger at Montgomery Field attended by Mayor Todd Gloria and community leaders. In the audience were elderly Holocaust survivors who now live in San Diego after the horror of their youth in Europe.
Darren Schwartz, founding director of the Goldberg Institute, recognized those survivors as he explained why Holocaust education is important.
“We have to ask ourselves: How will future generations truly understand what happened? How will they grasp what occurs when hate goes unchallenged?” Schwartz said.
The mobile museum, which expands to 560 square feet and features interactive video walls, is designed to bring Holocaust history to students to help them understand the consequences of hate, misinformation and the breakdown of democratic norms.
Mayor Todd Gloria and Lee Goldberg. (Photo by Chris Jennewein/Times of San Diego)“Students don’t just learn what happend during the Holocaust,” he said. “They explore how it happened, and what it means for the world they live in today. Because it isn’t about history; it’s about responsiblity.”
The project is backed by a multi-million-dollar lead gift from Lee Goldberg and the Goldberg family and other Jewish organizations, but also the Prebys Foundation, the largest independent private foundation in San Diego.
“As the first non-Jewish organizational supporter, we stepped in very intentionally. Because the Holocaust is not only Jewish history; it is human industry. Its lessons belong to every single one of us,” said Grant Oliphant, CEO of the foundation.
“At a time of rising division, distortion and normalization of hate, this kind of education isn’t optional. It’s essentinal if we care about a healthy, pluralistic democratic society,” Oliphant said.
Mayor Gloria recalled that the librarian in his elementary school was a Holocaust survivor with a number tattooed on her arm.
“She would check out the books and stamp them, and I would see the marking on her arm,” he said. “I wonder how many of our children are going to have those same experiences to understand how horrific this was.”
He praised the Spark Interactive project because it “will help us keep the promise to never forget and inspire all of us to make sure never again.”
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