DENVER - Eighty-eight-year-old Fanny Starr has a story to tell. She wants people to know about her horrifying experiences at the Auschwitz concentration camp so something like that never happens again.
"I just want people to listen to the truth," Starr, a Denver resident, said.
But, Starr does not want people to just read about how she and some members of her family survived the holocaust. Starr believes people should hear these stories before it is too late.
"My generation is slowly passing on," Starr said.
That's why her daughter, Helen Starr, has set up live Webcasts through a virtual world known as a Second Life. It's a place where avatars of real people interact with each other.
"I believe it's the future of preserving history," Helen Starr said. "To be able to hit a wide range of people in one sitting is amazing."
The computer version of the 88-year-old woman recounts the last time she saw her mother and younger brother while on the train to Auschwitz. She remembers how people were tortured, how little children were murdered and their bodies piled up like trash.
"It's such a heinous crime in such a heinous way," Fanny Starr told listeners in New York, Scotland and Israel during a Webcast on Thursday. "I begged to God, 'That's enough. Take me.'"
Helen Starr says you cannot ask a book a question. You cannot feel the pain of a survivor's voice by reading their words.
"Once my mom's generation is gone, who's going to talk about this?" Helen Starr asked. "Who's going to tell the story of our heritage?"
Fanny Starr just wants younger generations to know about the atrocities so they do not happen again like they have in Rwanda and Darfur.
"I would like to live another 20 (years) and tell people what we went through," Fanny Starr said. "It's horrid."
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