Holocaust Museum Presents Virtual Reality Experience

ST. PETERSBURG, FL -- The Florida Holocaust Museum is now hosting The Institute for Visual History and Education’s award-winning virtual reality experience, The Last Goodbye.

The Last Goodbye features survivor Pinchas Gutter’s visit to the site of the Nazi death camp Majdanek in Poland. Gutter is the only member of his family of four to have survived the Holocaust.

The precedent-setting, fully immersive experience enables viewers to virtually visit the site with Gutter as he travels in life-sized projections through the railway car, gas chamber, shower room and barracks of Majdanek seven decades later.

This is the first virtual reality film to take audiences through a concentration camp.

The Last Goodbye virtual reality film experience is included with the cost of an admission ticket to The Florida Holocaust Museum, 55 5th St. S., St. Petersburg.

This 17-minute virtual reality experience is available to one person at a time, with only two time-slots offered every hour.

Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. The public may contact the museum at 727-820-0100, ext. 226, to schedule a viewing through September or click here.

Image via Holocaust Museum

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