Our interview with Holocaust survivor Aaron Elster, who spent two years of his childhood hidden in a neighbor's attic, was unlike any interview we have ever done."They owned and operated a butcher shop," Elster said."I was born in a small town in Poland called Sokolów Podlaski," Elster said.
She brought the idea to Stephen Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, and now her husband. He loved it, but some of his colleagues weren't so sure."And you said, '"Yes, because that's the point,'" Stahl said."Well maybe people thought you're turning the Holocaust into something maybe hokey?" Stahl asked."We had a lot of pushback on this project," Smith said.
"So the very first day we went to film Pinchas, we had these ultra high speed cameras," Smith said."They were all linked together and synced together to make this video of him. So we sit down and they press record. Nothing happens. So Pinchas is sitting there with 6,000 LED lights on him and cameras that don't work.""I was bored sitting in that chair, So I started singing to myself," Gutter said."So suddenly, Steven had this idea, 'Oh, he's singing.
"What kept you going," one girl asked,"or what gave you hope while you were experiencing hardship in the camps?"Gutter's image is projected onto an 11-foot high screen. Smith explained how the technology works. "So what's happening is all of the answers to the questions that Pinchas gave go into a database," Smith said."And when you ask a question, the algorithm is looking through all of the database, 'Do I have an answer to that.
"There was a pile of skeleton-like bodies on the left," Moskin said."There was another pile of skeleton-like bodies on the right. 'Those poor souls.' That's the term my lieutenant kept screaming, 'Oh my God, look at these poor souls.'" Editors rotate the image, turn the green screen background into black and then a long process of testing begins, some of it in schools.
About the third time this has been on 60 Minutes. Once was interesting. 60 M really falling down on the job lately with much too much sport nonsense and repeat segments and repeat reports by the dullest members of the team.
allcell9 It’s okay, as we have millions more getting ready to experience the new one in Russia.
So the GOP is waiting to erase that episode from history, so they can have their turn.
Bostonfanfrmdot Make all schools show the life of Steve Ross. Concentration camp survivor.
Crazy that some question the holocaust! This is such a horrible moment in history-needs to be remembered in order to see/know when dangerous authoritarians try to creep into the minds of the gullible.Thanks for sharing your stories and RIP to the now dead survivors! Holocaust
Very cool tech