Student coders from 6 nations hack for Holocaust survivors
A virtual Heroes Hackathon in Jerusalem was dedicated to assisting Holocaust survivors and promoting the memory of the Holocaust in innovative ways.
Heroes Hackathon organizers at Synamedia in Jerusalem. Photo by Shay Druyak
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) is marked on April 8 this year.
For three days during Passover March 30 to April 3 – teams of mostly university students channeled their coding skills into 27 proposals presented to the Heroes Hackathon judges, who chose a few to be developed into working products.
“There were no prizes; it was just people volunteering to create products for the benefit of mankind,” says Lion Ben-Ness Vanunu, CEO and founder of Brave Together, the Israeli nonprofit that initiated the annual hackathon last year at multinational corporation Synamedia’s R&D center in Jerusalem.