What if a teenager taken to Auschwitz in 1944 had had a smart phone and an Instagram account? How would she have communicated about her life in that year?
An Israeli tech executive and his daughter Maya selected the diary of 13-year-old Eva Heyman from among 30 diaries written by teenagers during the Holocaust. They hired an actress and started taking photos to go along with excerpts from Eva's diary.
The result was a 70-part Instagram story that begins on her birthday in February, 1944, in Hungary and ends when she is on a train being deported to Auschwitz.
You can look at the first 15 episodes by searching @evastories on Instagram.
Thank you to Isabel Kershner of the New York Times for writing an article on this Instagram version of Holocaust history.
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