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Wednesday, February 19th | 21 Shevat 5785
ARTS AND CULTURE
French-Jewish gaming designer Luc Bernard revolutionized Holocaust education in 2023 when he created an online museum about the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people to be showcased inside "Fortnite," a wildly popular game that boasts 70 million users a month. In an interview with The Algemeiner from August, Bernard asserted that his goal was to "stop the rise of Nazism and antisemitism in the US and worldwide." In "Fortnite's "Voices of the Forgotten Museum," players can walk the halls of the building and read plaques describing Jewish victims, resistance fighters, and Holocaust heroes, whose photos are also on display. However, Bernard's singular achievement made him a target for neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the US-based Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. "I will not let happen to the US what happened to Europe," Bernard said defiantly. "My work isn't really based on who I am as a [Jewish] person. But really it's to stop the rise of Nazism and antisemitism now. We can no longer count on politicians and people in power to stop the rise of Nazism in the USA." (Photo: X)
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