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Monday 14 January 2019
Technology brings images of Holocaust survivors to life

DALLAS (AP) — Max your mother tongue and
Glauben was 17 and had you're looking the person in
already lost his mother, the eye and you are hear-
father and brother at the ing nuanced language
hands of the Nazis when coming back that's your
U.S. troops rescued him own language," Smith said.
while he was on a death For more than a year now,
march from one German the Illinois Holocaust Muse-
concentration camp to um and Education Center
another. has featured the survivors'
The recollections of the images in a special the-
Dallas resident who as a ater . Museum CEO Susan
Jew in Poland survived the Abrams says that when
Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi visitors interact with the im-
concentration camps are ages , the impact is often
now being preserved in a obvious: "People get teary;
way that will allow genera- people laugh."
tions to come to ask his im- "Our audience comes to
age questions. Glauben, feel that they know these
who turns 91 on Monday, survivors somewhat inti-
is the latest Holocaust sur- mately because they're
vivor recorded in such a having small group conver-
way by the University of This August 2018 photo shows Holocaust survivor Max Glauben sitting in an interactive green sation, and in that moment,
Southern California Shoah screen room while filming a piece for the Dallas Holocaust Museum in Dallas. pretty much everything
Foundation . The Los Ange- Associated Press else fades away," Abrams
les-based foundation has said.
recorded 18 interactive edge could cure the ha- about genocides in dozens be especially poignant. The Illinois museum is one of
testimonies with Holocaust tred and the bigotry and of languages — the major- He says, "You actually see four currently featuring the
survivors over the last sev- the killings in this world if ity from the Holocaust — sometimes them struggling images. Other museums
eral years, and executive somebody can listen to my the interactive technology to know what to answer." are in Houston , Indiana
director Stephen Smith says story, my testimony, and be stands out for allowing mu- So far, the foundation has and New York . The Holo-
they're in a "race against educated even after I'm seumgoers to have a dia- Holocaust survivors speak- caust museum in Dallas will
time" as they work to add gone," Glauben said. logue with survivors. ing in English, Hebrew and start showing them starting
more, seeking both a di- Smith says that while the "It's your questions that are Spanish, and the group in September, after it opens
versity in experiences and foundation founded in being answered," Smith hopes to get people in a new location and with
testimonies in a variety of 1994 by film director Steven said, adding that the re- speaking in even more lan- a new name — the Dal-
languages. Spielberg has about 55,000 plies, especially on weighty guages. las Holocaust and Human
"I thought that my knowl- audiovisual testimonies issues like forgiveness can "It's so powerful when it's in Rights Museum.q

SpaceX launches 10 more Iridium

Communications satellites

was recovered again with satellites are in operation. from remote areas over the
a bullseye landing on a The first Iridium satellites world's oceans.
"droneship" in the ocean were launched in the 1990s "Today we passed a major
while the upper stage con- to offer voice, data, fax milestone on our journey
tinued on to orbit. and paging services to cus- to revolutionize air traffic
The eighth and final launch tomers with Iridium hand- surveillance and are just
of the $3 billion Iridium NEXT held telephones and pag- weeks away from a fully
project completed delivery ers. operational system," Don
of 75 new satellites to orbit Among new capabilities Thoma, CEO of Aireon, said
for the McLean, Virginia, enabled by the fleet up- in a statement. "Now that
company. Sixty-six will be grade is Iridium Certus, de- the launches are complete,
operational and nine will scribed as a broadband final integration and testing
serve as in-orbit spares. Six solution for purposes rang- of the recently launched
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications
satellites blasts off through clouds over Vandenberg Air Force other satellites remain on ing from life-safety services payloads can commence,
Base near Lompoc, Calif., Friday morning, Jan. 11, 2019. the ground as spares. to command-and-control after which the world's first,
Associated Press All 10 newly launched sat- of unmanned aircraft sys- real-time, truly global view
ellites communicated with tems and tracking. of air traffic will be a reality."
By JOHN ANTCZAK mobile communication Iridium's network opera- The Iridium NEXT satellites Aireon said it is already
Associated Press technology and added tions center and were be- also carry a system by Aire- processing more than 13
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A global aircraft tracking ca- ing readied for testing, the on LLC for space-based air billion ADS-B messages per
SpaceX rocket delivered pability. company said. traffic surveillance over 100 month.
10 satellites to low-Earth or- The Falcon 9 rocket blast- Iridium has been moving its percent of the globe. Another difference with
bit on Friday, completing a ed off from Vandenberg new satellites into positions The Aireon system collects the new satellites is of note
two-year campaign by Irid- Air Force Base at 7:31 a.m. that were held by the old what is known as Automat- to skywatchers: no "Iridium
ium Communications Inc. and arced over the Pacific ones, which are lowered ic Dependent Surveillance- flares." The new satellites do
to replace its original fleet west of Los Angeles. The until they burn up in the at- Broadcast data automati- not reflect sunlight the way
with a new generation of previously used first stage mosphere. So far, 60 new cally and in real time, even the old ones did.q