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Lev Pevzner discusses his participation in the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper when he, a Jewish soldier, served in the Soviet armed forces. As the Red Army approached the Dnieper, the Germans used the river to slow down the Soviets’ advance. Pevzner reflects on his involvement in the military offensive including assembling rafts to transfer supplies and personnel across the river. As a result of the battle, the Red Army liberated the eastern bank of the Dnieper, and subsequently, the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv.
clip, male, jewish, soviet russia, Lev Pevzner, Blavatnik / Friday, March 28, 2014
Od roku 2012 byla součástí expertního vzdělávacího programu Svědectví pamětníků ve výuce pro 21. století pro české pedagogy i procházka protektorátní Prahou. Podobně s úryvky svědectví pamětníků v kombinaci s autentickými lokalitami pracovaly sesterské programy v Maďarsku, Polsku a na Ukrajině.
/ Monday, March 31, 2014
Od roku 2012 byla součástí expertního vzdělávacího programu Svědectví pamětníků ve výuce pro 21. století pro české pedagogy i procházka protektorátní Prahou. Podobně s úryvky svědectví pamětníků v kombinaci s autentickými lokalitami pracovaly sesterské programy v Maďarsku, Polsku a na Ukrajině.
/ Monday, March 31, 2014
Od roku 2012 byla součástí expertního vzdělávacího programu Svědectví pamětníků ve výuce pro 21. století pro české pedagogy i procházka protektorátní Prahou. Podobně s úryvky svědectví pamětníků v kombinaci s autentickými lokalitami pracovaly sesterské programy v Maďarsku, Polsku a na Ukrajině.
/ Monday, March 31, 2014
Valerie Nyirarudodo says she has forgiven the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda who have asked for it, and encourages others to follow the same path.
clip, female, tutsi survivor, rwanda, Valerie Nyirarudodo / Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Two women brought together as a result of the genocide in Rwanda share their story.When Rwandans were called upon to kill all Tutsi, some refused. Throughout the country Hutu tried to help and hide Tutsi - thousands paid with their lives. In their hearts, these people believed that what they were being told to do was wrong, and that it was more important to protect life than to follow orders.
rwanda, rescuer, rwandan survivor, female / Friday, April 4, 2014
On April 6, 1994, an aircraft carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down by a surface-to-air missile as it was about to land in Kigali airport. Everyone aboard the plane was killed: Habyarimana; president of Burundi, Cyprien Ntaryamira; and a three-man French crew. While it remains unclear who fired the missile, the event is viewed as having ignited the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.Live Wesige remembers hearing the news about the president’s death and describes the violence that ensued in his neighborhood the next day, April 7, 1994.
clip, male, tutsi survivor, rwanda, Live Wesige / Monday, April 7, 2014
April 2, 2014: Yannick Tona, currently a student at Texas Christian University, speaks to students in the USC Shoah Foundation Student Association of his experiences during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which took the lives of most of his family, and of how he connected these horrors from his past to his humanitarian efforts of today.
For more information on Yannick: http://www.yannicktona.com/
presentation, lecture, rwanda / Monday, April 7, 2014
/ Monday, April 7, 2014
Walter Absil reflects on living in Vienna, Austria during the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in the 1930’s. He also recalls on returning back to Vienna to retrieve his belongings from his family home after the war.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Vienna, Walter Absil, Austria / Thursday, April 10, 2014
March 6, 2014: Student Voices invites all USC graduate and undergraduate students, regardless of major, to create short films that incorporate testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.This year’s themes were: Preserving Humanity, Renewing Rwanda, and Risking Everything. All themes represent the coinciding 20th anniversaries of Schindler’s List in 2013 and the founding of the Shoah Foundation and the Rwanda Tutsi genocide in 2014.The video shows USC Shoah Foundation’s annual awards ceremony.
presentation / Thursday, April 10, 2014
Anny Walters and her family fled Nazi controlled Europe to Egypt in the early 1940's. Walters reflects on her life in Cairo after the end of World War II.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Anny Walters, Egypt / Friday, April 11, 2014
Morris Gordon describes in great detail how his family and community celebrated Passover in their home in Poland. The eight day festival also known as Pesach in Hebrew, commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt.
clip, male, jewish survivor, passover, morris gordon / Monday, April 14, 2014
Martin Aaron describes his experience of being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, bergen belsen, martin aaron / Tuesday, April 15, 2014
April 7, 2014: USC students in the Shoah Foundation Student Association coordinated a vigil for the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, structured around "Remember, Unite, Renew" -- the three themes of Kwibuka20, the international movement to commemorate 20 years since the genocide.
Students read excerpts of survivor testimony, gave speeches, performed an original piano-violin duet (written by 2013 PWP Rwanda student Ambrose Soehn), and gathered for a traditional Rwandan dance performance.
presentation, rwanda, sfisa / Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Rose Kohn remembers how her mother’s life was spared during the camp selection process in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Rose and her mother, Mary were then transferred to Bergen-Belsen. Mary and her daughter survived several concentration camps together and after liberation immigrated to the United States.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rose kohn, auschwitz / Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Francoise Muteteli describes how her work at a Rwandan Genocide memorial is helping preserve the memory of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
clip, female, tutsi survivor, rwanda, Francoise Muteteli / Thursday, April 17, 2014
Roman Weingarten describes the traditions of Passover including cleaning of the home to remove all traces of chametz, leavened products. Strict dietary laws prohibit the consumption of leavened substances for the eight days of the holiday. Also known as Pesach in Hebrew, the holiday commemorates the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Roman Weingarten, passover / Friday, April 18, 2014
Arshag Dickranian, Armenian Genocide survivor reflects on his decision to give his testimony.
clip, male, armenian surivor, Dickranian Arshag / Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Aurora Mardiganian speaks here as a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. But from 1918-1920, she was also the face of the Genocide to literally millions of Americans and to others throughout the world. Her tragic, horrific story was told through a 1918 semi-autobiographical book, Ravished Armenia, and a 1919 screen adaptation, also known as Auction of Souls. With the immediacy of a newsreel, the human side to the Genocide was brought to the screen.
clip, female, armenian survivor, Aurora Mardiganian / Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Abraham Zuckerman was saved by Oskar Schindler, when he was selected to work in Schindler’s factory. Zuckerman reflects on his decision to give his testimony and the importance of collecting survivor and eyewitness testimonies to the Holocaust.
clip, jewish survivor, Abraham Zuckerman, schindler jew, male / Friday, April 25, 2014
Marcel Lissek speaks on attending Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations in his community and how the ceremonies have evolved over the years. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom HaShoah, which remembers and honors the victims of the Holocaust. It is observed by most Jewish communities on the 27th of Nissan.
clip, male, jewish survivor, yom hashoah, Marcel Lissek / Friday, April 25, 2014
Sol Blaufeld recalls the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by American forces on April 29, 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, dachau, Sol Blaufeld, liberation / Monday, April 28, 2014
(28 min) Five survivors of the Sobibor death camp discuss their participation in the camp uprising of 1943.
sfc / Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Kurt Herrmann describes his deportation experience and living conditions of the Riga ghetto in Latvia.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Kurt Herrmann, riga ghetto / Tuesday, April 29, 2014