The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow

Interactive Mapping by Vertices has been adopting a more historical tone as of late. The project to map the survival of a Holocaust survior is a new addition to recent line of projects whose aim is to educate  individuals on a past that seems to be fading away into oblivion. 

The historical account by Krystyna Chige The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow is at the core of the project. It is a telling narrative by a precocious child clinging onto a thread of hope, despite the most dismal, black conditions. Despite finding an unlikely haven in Lvov sewers, Chige forges friendship and survives to share her riveting, powerful story with the public. In order to spread her story, GIS is mapping her journey to get web-surfers into history in a new way!

IM HISTORIES!

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I posted on this blog, but I’m back!

There is a new project I am looking forward to which aims at bridging the past with the present by getting our senior citizens to provide primary accounts of a community’s history (about the school, the neighborhood, the lifestyle, the people…)!

The project I’m spazzing about will focus on the history of West Windsor Plainsboro–my home town! Every town is rich with its own history, and its a pity how little community members know about where they live in or have lived in for 5-10+ years! 

This project will hopefully reconnect the old voices with the new so that community members learn to value every-day things around them and become more appreciative of where they live in. (Plus, we’re using youtube videos~!)

This project is also an “IM”! and Interactive Mapping project!

To find out more, visit the website: www.imhistories.com

I’ll write more about it when the project is finished!

 

-joanneim