The Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) was awarded the top prize in the education and training category at this year’s Charity Awards.
HET was recognised for its free digital educational programme, Testimony 360: People and Places of the Holocaust, that combines eyewitness testimony from Holocaust survivors with virtual reality.
Testimony 360 aims to change the way that the Holocaust is taught about in schools, allowing students to have a conversation with a Holocaust survivor, long after survivors themselves are no longer with us. By using virtual reality, they will explore historical sites associated with the Holocaust – all without leaving the classroom.
It has taken filmed testimonies of survivors and turned them into a digital interactive programme powered by an Al search engine. Pupils can ask a question, and the Al selects the correct response from the recorded survivor testimony, creating an authentic and immersive conversational experience.
