What Would You Have Done?

Guests: Jessica Hammer, PhD, Co-Designer, Rosenstrasse, Assistant Professor, HCI Institute, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University; Moyra Turkington, Co-Designer, Rosenstrasse  If you’ve been listening to these stories of heroism during the Holocaust and found yourself thinking,  “I would have resisted. I’d have stood up to injustice, no matter the cost,” how can you know for sure? That question intrigued game designers Jessica Hammer and Moyra Turkington enough for them to design a role-playing board game called Rosenstrasse. Players take on the perspective of people living in 1943 Berlin when a large protest took place on Rosenstrasse Street. Day after day, hundreds of non-Jewish women came out to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands by the Nazis.