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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 11 April 2007 | |
  
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Prior to the genocide the total population of Darfur was 6 million. Crisis in Darfur content comes from a range of sources—the U.S. State Department, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, individual photographers, and the Museum. “At Google, we believe technology can be a catalyst for education and action,” said Elliot Schrage, Google Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs. “Crisis in Darfur will enable Google Earth users to visualize and learn about the destruction in Darfur as never before and join the Museum’s efforts in responding to this continuing international catastrophe.” The Museum has also announced the creation of a similar mapping project on Holocaust history available on the Museum’s website: www.ushmm.org/googleearth. The Holocaust took place across the entire European continent, and for all of Europe’s Jews, as well as other victims of Nazism, such as Gypsies, geography played a major role in determining their fate. The Museum is using Google Earth to map key Holocaust sites with historic content from its collections. Further information on Holocaust-era sites can be accessed through the Museum’s online Holocaust Encyclopedia at www.ushmm.org. To find Crisis in Darfur on Google Earth, users must download the Google Earth application from http://earth.google.com. Once downloaded, users will find Crisis in Darfur by flying over Africa. Information on the Museum’s Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative and the Holocaust mapping layer can be accessed from the Museum’s Web site at www.ushmm.org/googleearth.{moscomment} |
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