Holocaust survivors play Call Of Duty WWII in attempt to raise awareness

Holocaust survivors play Call of Duty: WWII in an attempt to raise awareness.

The Holocaust is one of the most tragic events in recorded history. During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators committed mass genocide by murdering six million Jewish people in German-occupied locations across Europe. It is believed that this cruel act of genocide wiped out around two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe.

At the time of writing, World War II ended about 80 years ago, meaning there are generations that might be unfamiliar with the Holocaust which had taken place in Babi Yar, a location in Russia occupied by Nazi Germany.

In an attempt to raise awareness to the modern generation, as reported by Dexerto, Zikaron Basalon and McCann Tel Aviv have teamed up to host a charity event called Fighting to Remember. The event will feature five Israelian content creators who play the campaign of Call of Duty: WWII alongside Holocaust survivors, who will recite related events.

Holocaust survivor Shimon Greenhouse explained when reliving a sequence: “They burst into the ghetto and took us out into the square. They pointed at five people, my father being one of them. We took five steps forward and, from the back, they murdered all of them. My father fell on me, and I was covered in his blood.”

In a study conducted by McCann Tel Aviv, it is believed that 76% of Israeli teens have never met a Holocaust survivor and 48% of Jews aged between 18 to 29 were unaware of the events of Babi Yar. So hopefully the Fighting to Remember charity event will serve its purpose well.

What’s more, there are not only plans to take the conversations of the Holocaust experiences from survivors into classrooms to further educate the younger generation, but Fighting to Remember has created a documentary series which will be streamed on Amazon Prime Video.