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The Florida Holocaust Museum announces partnership

with the Institute of Digital Exploration at USF

he Florida Holocaust Museum cvast/collections/florida-holocaust- her mother Allie at Auschwitz in 1943. About The Florida
(The FHM) is thrilled to an- museum. Her father Richard retrieved the shoes Holocaust Museum
Tnounce an exciting partnership Digital photogrammetry is a tech- from the family’s home in Antwerp. One of the largest Holocaust museums
with Dr. Davide Tanasi and his team nique that allows three-dimensional The family’s rabbi brought the shoes to in the country, and one of three nation-
from the Institute of Digital Explora- digital reconstruction of physical arti- the United States. ally accredited Holocaust museums,
tion (IDEx) at the University of South facts using a collection of high-reso- This is an ongoing project with The Florida Holocaust Museum honors
Florida (USF), to capture three-di- lution photographs, a controlled light Dr. Davide Tanasi and his USF IDEx the memory of millions of men, wom-
mensional interactive renderings of environment, and processed with spe- team, who plan to continue to capture en and children who suffered or died in
artifacts in the museum’s permanent cific software based on the pattern of three-dimensional interactive render- the Holocaust. The FHM is dedicated
collection, virtual gallery experiences recognition of algorithms. ings of artifacts in The FHM’s perma- to teaching members of all races and
and more! USF IDEx is hard at work One of the artifacts that has been nent collection, among a number of cultures the inherent worth and dignity
developing this new content and has captured using digital photogrammetry other special projects including a com- of human life in order to prevent future
already made five artifacts captured is a pair of baby shoes from The FHM’s plete 3D rendering of the Museum’s genocides. For additional information,
by the IDEx team using digital pho- permanent collection. This pair of tiny boxcar. please visit www.TheFHM.org.
togrammetry available for public lace-up baby shoes was worn by two-
view online at https://sketchfab.com/ year-old Doris Mathes, who died with

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