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Defying the Nazis VR |
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Step inside a ship carrying child refugees who were fleeing Nazi France in order to find safety and freedom in the United States in 1940. To watch the full experience and explore more exclusive virtual reality content download the LIFE VR app for iOS and Android or visit time.com/lifevr.
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Imagine, as a child, leaving everything you know behind—your family, your home, even your native language. In this virtual reality companion piece to Ken Burns’s and Artemis Joukowsky's documentary “Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War” premiering Sept. 20 on PBS, you'll do more than imagine—you'll flee Nazi France and step inside a boat traveling from Portugal to the United States, to see what it might have been like to travel alongside other young refugees seeking freedom in America. The saviors responsible for this daring rescue mission: Waitstill and Martha Sharp.
In 1940, Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom was one of the 29 children who arrived in the United States aboard the Excambion, a ship carrying child refugees from Nazi-occupied France, who escaped via Portugal. Here she experiences her rescue--76 years later--via VR experience. Learn more here.
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Watch a Holocaust Survivor Experience Her Own Rescue in VR |
This powerful full CG VR experience includes an opening letter from Martha read by actress Maria Bello, along with narration from real-life survivors—using audio and archival photos from the documentary, you'll see their faces, hear their emotional stories, and travel alongside them on a recreation of The Excambion, the actual ship that brought them to safety.
Defying the Nazis VR also serves as a reminder of the hardships that thousands of refugee families are currently enduring amid the current European migrant crisis. With this immersive story, the past is rendered palpably present. |
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Defying the Nazis VR is produced by VR Playhouse in association with Artemis Joukowsky and Farm Pond Pictures and directed by Elijah Allan-Blitz. LIFE VR is the exclusive distributor.