Luc Bernard is a French-Jewish

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who created video games such as ''Death Tales'', ''

Eternity's Child ''Eternity's Child'' (previously known as ''Angel's Eternity'') is a side-scrolling platform game based on a fairy tale created by Luc Bernard. It was released by Luc Bernard and Silver Sphere Studios on Steam July 31, 2008. Gameplay The gamep ...

'', '' Mecho Wars'', ''Desert Ashes'', ''Plague Road'', '' Pocket God vs Desert Ashes'' and ''SteamPirates''. He is also the founder of Voices of the Forgotten, a non-profit organization that develops educational projects focused on Holocaust remembrance and Jewish history through digital media. Bernard has created a number of video game projects related to the

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. He created the Fortnite Holocaust Museum, a

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based inside the video game

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which features displays of Nazi atrocities. In 2023, he released '' The Light in the Darkness'', a free educational video game which chronicles the life of a Polish-Jewish family in

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, interspersed with educational material on the hardships French Jews faced during the regime. The project evolved from an earlier unreleased concept titled '' Imagination Is the Only Escape'', which also explored

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. Bernard is also leading the Anne Frank's Young Voices project, a collaboration between Anne Frank LA and Voices of the Forgotten, inspired by the Holocaust Museum in Fortnite. The program trains and supports students in designing their own virtual Holocaust museums within Fortnite.Meyer, Simone (March 17, 2025). "Epic Games partners with the Anne Frank Center in a pilot program for Holocaust education". ''The Daily Gamecock''. Retrieved June 21, 2025. A pilot launched in December 2024 in the Los Angeles Unified School District, designed to encourage students to engage with Holocaust history through interactive storytelling. Bernard is currently developing Tears of Libya, a historical narrative game focusing on the experiences of Libyan Jews during World War II.

Games

Bernard's first video game was the

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''. '' Kitten Squad'', which he directed for

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, was released in 2016. ''The Light in the Darkness'' teaches players about the Holocaust and portrays the experience of persecuted Jews in France.

Personal

Bernard is Jewish and an advocate for a number of Jewish causes. He was primarily raised by his maternally Jewish grandmother in England until the age of 10, when he moved to France. When Bernard was 18, he infiltrated a French neo-Nazi street gang to spy on their activities before reporting them to local authorities.

References

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