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Margaret Lambert
Language: English
Margaret Lambert speaks about her childhood and relationship with her immediate family in pre-war Germany. She discusses her Jewish identity.
Gender: Female
DOB: April 12, 1914
City of Birth: Laupheim (Germany)
Country of Birth: Germany
Ghettos: N/A
Went into hiding: No
Other experiences: N/A
Alex Chevion
Language: English
Alex recalls listening to Adolf Hitler's radio addresses before the war. He remembers how Polish Jews living in Germany were expelled from the country.
Gender: Male
DOB: Jul 21, 1924
City of birth: Tarnów
Country of birth: Poland
Ghettos: Tarnów (Poland)
Went into hiding: Yes
Other experiences: prisons, concealment of Jewish identitySteve Lewkowicz
Language: English
Steve recalls how Jewish kids were harassed at school and Polish kids and Jewish kids played separately.
Gender: Male
DOB: Dec 2, 1925
City of birth: Boleslawiec
Country of birth: Poland
Camps: Auschwitz (Poland), Buchenwald (Germany), Dreetz (Germany), Neudachs (Jaworzno, Poland)
Went into hiding: Yes
Forced (death) marches: Yes
Other experiences: displaced persons campsMargaret Lambert
Language: English
Margaret Lambert speaks about her childhood and relationship with her immediate family in pre-war Germany. She discusses her Jewish identity.
Gender: Female
DOB: April 12, 1914
City of Birth: Laupheim (Germany)
Country of Birth: Germany
Ghettos: N/A
Went into hiding: No
Other experiences: N/A
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To view the entire Armenian Genocide Testimony Collection, log into the Visual History Archive Online to explore the full-length eyewitness testimonies.
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On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, listen to the testimonies of 70 Holocaust survivors, drawn from the Visual History Archive at USC Shoah Foundation, as they recall their personal experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
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Clips of survivors recalling times in their lives during the Holocaust when they still managed to find love.
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The Kristallnacht Pogrom was an organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria that occurred on November 9–10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the November Pogrom, “Night of Broken Glass,” and “Crystal Night.” Orchestrated by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of a German embassy official in Paris by a seventeen-year-old Jewish youth named Herchel Grynzspan, 1,400 synagogues and 7,000 businesses were destroyed, almost 100 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
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This theme focuses on the ways in which survivors observed Jewish holidays in the ghettos and camps.
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This set of clips from the Institute's archive showcases survivors before the camera performing music that helped sustain them during the Holocaust.
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A collection of clips featuring women speaking about their experiences during the Holocaust and that appears in the study guide "Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion," produced in partnership with the United Nations in 2011.
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These are survivors’ accounts of losing loved ones in the midst of genocide.
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These are accounts of life after genocide—including, but not limited to, experiences after liberation from captivity or emergence from hiding—and often includes a message for future generations.
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Liberation is typically characterized by the arrival of Allied forces. Interviewees tell of liberation from concentration camps, or during death marches, or may describe liberation upon emergence from hiding.