App helps people understand concentration camp conditions

(3 May 2016) HD file available here: \\lonvapnas02arc\ap_archive_manual\workflow_directories\manual_fulfillment\ Offline_Archive\Source_Clips\Newsroom_Failures Bergen-Belsen, Germany - 12th March 2016 1. Close of app, developed by Barcelona based SPECS (Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group) and the Bergen-Belsen Memorial. Showing camp buildings in augmented reality mode 2. Various close of app showing camp buildings 3. Melanie Priess, visiting memorial and using app. Close of tablet, zoom out to Priess entering memorial 4. Close of memorial sign 5. Priess walking past stone monument 6. Close of rocks laying on top of monument 7. Wide of Priess using app 8. Various close of app 9. Priess standing near inscription on wall 9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Melanie Priess, visitor to memorial: "I can see several terrace houses well, and behind them the guard towers. And when I look at the map I can see that I'm standing in the exchange camp." (Where prisoners that were to be exchanged for captured Germans were held). 10. Priess standing in front of grave of Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank (killed at Bergen-Belsen but probably buried in mass graves, grave is a symbolic memorial) 11. Tilt up of Frank grave 12. Stones on top of Frank grave 13. Drone shot, from stone monument to wide of camp site (Audio recorded separately on ground) 14. Paul Verschure, developed the app through his company SPECS, walking through camp site. Verschure's grandfather died at the camp in 1945 15. Close of feet 16. Verschure walking through camp 17. SOUNDBITE: (English), Paul Verschure, SPECS app developer: (speaking about visiting the camp for the first time in 2005 to see where his grandfather died) "So I had a map from a survivor who buried him actually. And he told me, 'look, your grandfather died in the so-called lasarett (hospital), but it just means the room where people would die, in block four, that's in that direction, in the trees. And then we dragged him on April 28, over the main camp street, to a mass grave that was open there in the ground, just next to the bomb crater.' So of course these are the places that I wanted to visit. And then I realised that on the map where they had indicated 'we buried him here' there was nothing. There was grass. There was no mass grave, or anything." 18. Various of video installation showing camp structure, same graphics used in the app 19. SOUNDBITE: (English), Paul Verschure, SPECS app developer: "We have to, you know, deal now with the legacy of the survivor. We have to honour the victims. We have to make sure we understand the risks, so that the perpetrators can not emerge so easily anymore. We also have to understand to the cowardice of the bystanders, of the collaborators, then we can respond to this as a healthy society." 20. Drone shot, wide of camp site (Audio recorded separately on ground) 21. Video installation showing camp structure, same graphics used in the app 22. SOUNDBITE: (English), Paul Verschure, developed the app through his company SPECS "So what I want to achieve is that now I can forever, because we use digital means so in some sense it can have a practically infinite life if we want… I can forever go to this place and say 'ok - this is where crematorium of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen stood." 23. Drone video of obelisk acting as memorial monument (Audio recorded separately on ground) 24. Tombstone in foreground, Priess in background 25. Monument located at one mass grave reading (German), "1000 people died here" 26. Close of monument 29. Various wide of Priess using app Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...