Development & Prototyping of Online, On-site, and Mobile Applications
Open Hearts / Closed Doors
Between 1947 and 1949, the War Orphans Project brought to Canada 1,123 Jewish children and youth orphaned in Europe by the Holocaust. Open Hearts/Closed Doors chronicles the lives of these orphans through photographs, artifacts, and the personal narratives of the war orphans themselves. Learning resources use the affinity of age between school students and the young survivors to create a sense of historic empathy and to build a powerful learning experience around a significant event in Canadian history. This project was designed and produced by 7th Floor Media in partnership with the Vancouver Holocaust Museum as part of the Virtual Museum project of the Canadian Heritage Information Network.
