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Holocaust: The Website by Joyce Slaton The Digital Be-In is proud to host The Holocaust site, a technologically-impeccable and exquisitely moving effort from a team of high school students. Fitting in perfectly with the Be-In's theme of Human Rights in Cyberspace, The Holocaust offers a winning look at one of the most horrifying chapters in human history, bringing the Holocaust into sharp, immediate relief. The Holocaust takes users on a virtual walking tour of a concentration camp, offers sound files of spoken recollections of Holocaust survivors and presents scenarious of moral dilemmas. Visitors can view evidence and draw their own conclusions about war crimes at the Interactive Nuremburg trial or view camp life from the perspective of a camp administrator. Perhaps the most moving part of the Holocaust site are oral remembrances from actual camp survivors, which give a heartrending and deeply personal look at life in the camps. The Holocaust's young creators met through the innovative ThinkQuest conference and decided to collaborate on the Holocaust site long-distance. Mike Dale, the pivotal creator behind the project, won a $20,000 ThinkQuest award for his work, with $15,000 going to him and $2500 each to his high school and his designer coach. Dale's team’s work was chosen the winner from more than 1,400 student teams from 40 countries. Dale says that the impetus for the team's work was "the conflicts in Bosnia/Rwanda as well as the Swiss gold issue. Also it is important to get the truth out, as we found many sites that denied the existence of the Holocaust." The Be-In's theme of human rights is timed to remember the 50th Anniversary of the UN's 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Be-In participants plan to release a Declaration of Human Rights in Cyberspace.