Not much is known about the life of Stella Fidelseid, also known as Stefania Milenbach, before World War II. When the outbreak of war in Warsaw in April 1943, she was only 24 years old, and in the fighting area she was on her own. Her parents and younger sister died in the Treblinka extermination camp, and her husband, doctor Salomon Świeca, was deported to Majdanek, where he took his own life.
She survived the uprising by hiding in bunkers. Stella Fidelseid wrote her memories from the Warsaw ghetto
During the uprising, Stella was plagued by terrible hunger and paralyzing fear like never before, especially since she was pregnant at the time. In November, her son was born in the bunker, but he died after only a few days because she had nothing to feed him. Although in retrospect it can be assumed that she herself did not have much chance to survive, she went down in history as one of the few survivors of the burning ghetto.
In December 1943, Fidelseid left the bunker and got to the so-called the Aryan side. – I left the bunker and didn’t know where to go – . She decided to write down what she experienced behind the wall in the form of memories, which were published under the title “I remained in the ruins… (my experiences after the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto – April-December 1943)” in the years 1947-1968 in “Nasze Słowa” . Now you can read this story, told in her voice. How is this possible?
Stella Fidelseid’s voice was generated by artificial intelligence. The 3-hour recording is now available
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw decided to use this shocking account in a new project, to which it was engaged. Archival recordings from the resources of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive also came with help, thanks to which it was possible to generate her voice. – Stella Fidelseid emigrated to Brazil after the war. Archival video recordings of her participation in Portuguese from 1997 have been preserved – said Michał Sęk, head of the creative department of Saatchi & Saatchi, the company that carried out the order. – Based on them, we could start working on creating a digital version of the Polish voice – he said about the process. As Stella Fidelseid’s granddaughter, Marina Wajnsztejn, argues, her voice is truly real. – It’s amazing to receive such recordings. Her Polish version sounds exactly like her. My mother even had doubts whether it was her or the AI – .
You can now listen to the recordings while visiting the nooks and crannies of the former ghetto in Warsaw, which gives this story a completely different dimension. This is possible thanks to special QR codes that can be found on posters at bus stops. Scanning them allows the device to determine the listener’s location and thus match the content of the story to the place where he or she is currently located. Moreover, in January 2024, the entire record of this story will also appear on the project’s website.
Source: Gazeta
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