Making the Holocaust Archives Accessible
MY ROLE
UI/UX / Web Design / Interaction
BACKGROUND
Yad Vashem is the world’s largest Holocaust memorial and remembrance center, working extensively to collect, examine and publish testimonies of the Holocaust survivors.
In order to deal with its massive testimony archive, consisted of over 180 million documents, over 500,000 photographs and 125,000 survivors testimonies, Yad Vashem has teamed with HPE Israel in a unique one week hackathon.
THE CHALLENGE
Teams were challenged to find new ways to bring 70 years of collected history to future generations around the world, using HPE's big data technologies (Haven on Demand).
Another main objective was to enable the enormous amount of data, in its various languages and types (video, audio, text) to be easily searchable and accessible.
THE SOLUTION
90% of the Yad Vashem website visitors come from outside of Israel, which means most users are probably random visitors that are less acquainted with the Holocaust. Our solution was to provide them an experience: not "just" a search tool, but an interactive website that showcases a network of stories that relate to one another and provide an in-depth and emotional context to the testimonials archive.
** Project was done with UX Designer, Eynat Pikman **
