Rowan Barnett

.@Google, a technological partner of the Auschwitz Museum and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, has been recognized as one of the benefactors supporting the educational mission of the Memorial. Read more: auschwitz.org/en/museum/news…

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Google will support the development of the "Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes" project, enabling people from around the world to visit the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with a live guide in an online format. Through $1M in funding and support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, the Memorial will expand education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust to reach people everywhere, including making it accessible to people with disabilities, those in remote areas and unable to travel there. Read more about @Google support: auschwitz.org/en/museum/news… Google's support will help evolve the technological platform and its accessibility, including introducing live captioning, AI-based translation into multiple languages, and the digitization of Survivors' testimonies, which will be used during the tours. It will also include extensive training for guides and expanding the reach of this unique form of visits to multiple communities worldwide, including partnering with schools to increase access for students. This builds on the long-standing partnership with Google, when the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum worked with Google Arts & Culture to bring important stories of Auschwitz online along with over 700 artifacts from its archive. The “Auschwitz in Front of Your Eyes” project was developed over three years as a cooperation between the Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, and companies such as AppsFlyer, DISKIN, and Orange. In January of this year, visitors began to use the platform. On 13 May in Warsaw, a discussion took place with the participation of Rowan Barnett, Director of Google.org for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz Museum, and Wojciech Soczewica, Director General of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation. A special guest at the event was Auschwitz Survivor Bogdan Bartnikowski. More about online guided tours: auschwitz.org/en/museum/news…

Nein zu #Antisemitismus, Nein zu Muslimfeindlichkeit und Nein zu #Rassismus. Mir ist es ein (Herzens) Bedürfnis jedwede Menschenfeindlichkeit auf den bundesweiten Demonstrationen anzusprechen, sonst ist unsere Kritik unvollständig. Geht bitte weiter demonstrieren. Danke #München.