Anja Ballis is Professor and Department Chair of German Literature and Language Education at the University of Munich. She combines her interests in learning with media, qualitative and educational research, and Holocaust literature and education in her current project that creates, studies, and implements in educational settings interactive, 3-D representations of Holocaust survivors in order to help preserve cultural memory of the Shoah.

Julie Winter is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Western Washington University. Her interests in memoir, translation, stylistics, and German language and literature converge in her current collaboration with the University of Munich on digital representations of Holocaust survivors. She recently translated Holocaust survivor Abba Naor’s memoir from German into English.