Dimensions in Testimony
What questions would you ask a Holocaust survivor? Now is your chance to experience history in a new way with Dimensions in Testimony, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center’s newest virtual intelligence exhibit at Union Terminal.
An extraordinary interactive experience.
The Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center is one of twelve museums in the world to feature this cutting-edge exhibit.
Dimensions in Testimony is an initiative of the USC Shoah Foundation to record and display testimony in a way that will preserve dialogue between Holocaust survivors and learners far into the future. This groundbreaking exhibit gives you the rare change to engage in one-on-one conversations with survivors.
Henry's testimony will be available beginning January 2025.
Meet Henry Fenichel
Henry Fenichel was born in The Hauge, Netherlands, on April 13, 1938. After the German army occupied Holland in 1940, Henry’s father, Moritz, was deported to Mauthausen and was later killed in Auschwitz. Henry and his mother, Paula, went into hiding but were discovered within the year. While imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp, Paula learned of Transport 222, a prisoner exchange that would allow a select number of Dutch Jews to escape to British Mandate Palestine (present-day Israel). She was able to get them on the list and then they were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in February 1944. That summer, they left for Palestine.
In Palestine, Henry was placed in a children’s home, and his mother visited him often. Paula eventually remarried, and the family immigrated to the U.S. in 1953. In New York, Henry went to college and met his future wife, Diana. They married in 1961 and had two daughters. They moved to Cincinnati in 1965, where Henry was a professor of physics at the University of Cincinnati for nearly 40 years.
USC Shoah Foundation
Dimensions in Testimony is an initiative of USC Shoah Foundation to record and display testimony in a way that will preserve the dialogue between Holocaust survivors and learners far into the future. Collaborating within the project are Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, with technology by USC Institute for Creative Technologies, and concept by Conscience Display.
Funding for Dimensions in Testimony was provided in part by Pears Foundation, Louis. F. Smith, Melinda Goldrich and Andrea Cayton/Goldrich Family Foundation in honor of Jona Goldrich, and Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Other partners include CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Support for local testimonies provided by Bob and Lori Fregolle and the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati.
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