Brutal Nazi guards killed my brother then put me to work…now AI has made me immortal so we NEVER forget horrors
Brutal Nazi guards killed my brother then put me to work…now AI has made me immortal so we NEVER forget horrors
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HOLOCAUST survivor Manfred Goldberg feared the story of his horrific childhood in Nazi death camps would be lost when he is gone. But thanks to virtual reality and AI tech, the 94-year-old will be able to “live on” after his death to tell future generations about his wartime hell.
![[Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg holding a clapperboard.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/holocaust-survivor-manfred-goldberg-virtual-963256150.jpg?strip=all&w=720)
The virtual Manfred will be capable of answering any of 15,000 questions about his experience of Hitler’s Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered in World War Two. He will even be able to take viewers inside the Nazi concentration camp where his little brother Herman was killed while he and his mother were being worked almost to death as slave labourers.
![[A Holocaust survivor's virtual testimony displayed on a screen in a classroom.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/360-lesson-new-interactive-learning-963256154.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
He will even be equipped to take viewers inside the Nazi concentration camp where his little brother Herman was killed, while he and his mother were being worked almost to death as slave labourers. Manfred, from Hendon, North West London, is the first Holocaust survivor to take part in Testimony 360 — a remarkable two-year project that will allow children of the future to ask him about the horrors he witnessed, long after he is no longer alive.
![[Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg and his wife Shary at home.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/holocaust-survivor-manfred-goldberg-north-962535092.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
King Charles, who will visit Auschwitz today — Holocaust Memorial Day — recently met father-of-four Manfred at Buckingham Palace and experienced the new technology, created by the Holocaust Educational Trust. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Manfred said: “It’s the nearest thing to magic. It’s practically like being granted immortality.
![[Black and white photo of Manfred Goldberg as a young boy writing at a desk.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/holocaust-survivor-manfred-goldberg-age-962535129.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
