About a year ago, Second Life Newspaper did a report on Fanny Starr ( Link ). She would speak at lectures through her daughter’s avatar, Explorer Dastardly (Helen Starr in real life). She would talk about her experiences and answer any questions from the audience.Not only is Fanny Starr still giving her talks, such as in this video by Pooky Amsterdam, a glance at New World Notes showed she had made the attention of real-life news. A local TV station, KUSA-TV, did a story on her, and her lectures in Second Life.
Fanny Starr explained that live talks were necessary to explain her story, “You cannot ask a book a question. You cannot feel the pain of a survivors voice by reading her words.”
She hopes to educate people so the tragedy does not happen again, to Jewish people or anyone else, such as in recent tragedies in Africa.
Bixyl Shuftan
