United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum and Google
Join in Online Darfur Mapping
InitiativeIncluded in this
segment are presentations by
John Heffernan, director of
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum's Genocide Prevention
Initiative and Lawrence
Swiader, Chief Information
Officer at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum.Crisis i
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United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum and Google
Join in Online Darfur Mapping
InitiativeIncluded in this
segment are presentations by
John Heffernan, director of
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum's Genocide Prevention
Initiative and Lawrence
Swiader, Chief Information
Officer at the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum.Crisis in
Darfur enables people to
visualize and better
understand the genocide
unfolding in Darfur. The
Museum has assembled
photographs, data and
eyewitness testimony for the
first time as a Global
Awareness layer in Google
Earth. High-resolution
satellite imagery in Google
Earth enables users to zoom
into the region to view more
than 1,600 damaged and
destroyed villages, providing
compelling evidence of the
scope of destruction. The
Museum is using Google Earth
to map Holocaust sites with
content from its collections,
illustrating the enormous
scope and impact of the
Holocaust. To find Crisis in
Darfur on Google Earth, users
must download the Google Earth
application at no cost 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
http://www.ushmm.org/googleear
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