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More than 100 Million People View Teenage Holocaust Victim's Diary on Instagram


(Washington Post) Ruth Eglash - Israeli Mati Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, created "Eva Stories" on Instagram to raise awareness of the Holocaust in an era of short attention spans and for a generation that is addicted to new media formats. More than 100 million people have already viewed Eva's story, told via short video clips complete with emoji, captions and spoken commentaries. It is based on the diary of Eva Heyman, a Jewish girl from Hungary who dreamed of being a reporter and began writing on her 13th birthday, Feb. 13, 1944. She was killed in Auschwitz on Oct. 17, 1944.
2019-05-03 00:00:00
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