A Conversation with Pinchas Gutter
"During the Holocaust I was living in a cocoon, with blinders. I lived completely in the present moment, because at any second, any Nazi, any German, any Kapo, could do away with me. You were like a gnat that they could squash. So, you lived inside a cocoon and hoped that one the day the butterfly would come out."
Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors continue to share their families’ stories.
One of the oldest living groups of Holocaust survivor siblings have called Winnipeg home for decades. Now, they are sharing their stories, via the Last Chance Testimony Collection, part of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
As of 2020, only 400,000 Holocaust survivors were still alive. Archivists, historians, and family members are working to capture their stories before they’re gone. The University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation ois taking recording these survivor testimonies one step further.
The Center Searches for Photographs of Nazi Mass Deportations As Part of the #LastSeen Project
The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is proud to announce its cooperation with a German government funded multi-institutional Holocaust research project entitled #LastSeen - Pictures of Nazi Deportations.
In the Throes of the Armenian Genocide, His Mother Protected Him and Saved More Than a Hundred Others
When Sam Kadorian was a child, Ottoman soldiers would conduct drills in a field near his home in Mezre (modern-day Elazığ, Turkey), adjacent to the fortress town of Kharpert. Sam would stand close by, mimicking their drills.
