An Instagram story on Holocaust for social media generation
Holocaust story on Instagram
Much as Anne Frank's diary gripped the older generations, an Instagram account called Eva.Stories, based on a true 13-year-old Jewish victim's journal, is generating buzz among the young.
Project funded by Israeli billionaire
The project has been co-produced by Mati Kochavi, an Israeli high-tech billionaire who hails from a family of Holocaust victims, survivors and educators.
Holocaust in 70 stories
Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, have created 70 Instagram stories that chronicle the downward spiral of Eva Heyman’s life in the fateful spring of 1944, when the Nazis conquered Hungary.
Recalling the horror at concentration camps
Heyman was one of about 430,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to Nazi concentration camps between May 15 and July 9, 1944. Of the estimated 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, around 568,000 were Hungarian, according to Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
A Hollywood-style movie
Heyman's tale, produced as a Hollywood-style movie with a multimillion-dollar budget, will stream throughout Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins on Wednesday. The instalments appear as if Heyman had owned a smartphone during World War II and was using Instagram to share her life updates.
In an Auschwitz death camp
The story opens with Heyman's happier adolescent experiences then darkens as night falls. The Nazis tighten their hold on Hungary's Jews, taking her family's business, belongings and home, forcing Heyman out of her home and ultimately to the Auschwitz death camp.
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