San Diego’s newest classroom on wheels rolled out yesterday, trading textbooks for touchscreens and turning a trailer into a traveling Holocaust museum. Spark Interactive, a custom-built mobile exhibit that delivers immersive Holocaust education to schools and community centers across the county, was unveiled inside a hangar at Montgomery Field. Organizers say the rolling museum pairs survivor testimony with digital exhibits and guided discussions to help students link history to present-day lessons about hate, propaganda and civic responsibility.
Unveiling at Montgomery Field
The debut drew Mayor Todd Gloria, community leaders and elderly Holocaust survivors to Montgomery Field for an indoor ceremony that felt part ribbon-cutting, part history lesson. Darren Schwartz, founding director of the Legacy of Light Goldberg Institute, said the project forces the question “how will future generations truly understand what happened?” and emphasized the need for survivor-centered education. Mayor Gloria recalled an elementary-school librarian who bore a survivor number and said the mobile museum will help “keep the promise to never forget,” according to…..