Nelly Cesana remembers happy times with her family in Warsaw before the war.
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Aron Rabinovich describes how he helped guard the "Polizei," who had collaborated with the Nazis, after he was liberated and gave testimony about the crimes they had perpetrated against him and his family.
Robert J. Aumann remembers the phone call notifying him he won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the understanding of conflict through game-theory analysis at the University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Jack Adler remembers arriving to Ellis Island and decribes the first time he earned American currency.
Jehovah's Witness survivor Simone Maria Liebster describes her last night with her mother in a hotel before her mother had to leave her at a Jehovah's Witness re-education center in Germany. They prayed and sang together.
Joseph Horn describes the Auschwitz camp orchestra, which was made up of some of the best musicians in Europe. He distinctly remembers that the orchestra's concerts every Sunday were scheduled so the local townspeople could come into the camp after church and attend the concert.
Vera Laska describes how, as a teenager, she helped Jews and French political prisoners cross the mountains from Slovakia into Hungary. This clip is part of the new Facing History and Ourselves IWitness activity Choosing to Rescue.
Bronia Furst talks about being reunited with her family in the concentration camp in Pechora, Soviet Union. She says that her daily life was terrible because the camp was like a starvation camp and she would watch dead bodies be taken from the barracks everyday. Everyone continuously lived in fear.
Liesl Loeb describes how her home was attacked during Kristallnacht. Her family's non-Jewish tenant hid the family upstairs and they listened as vandals destroyed the entire first floor of their house. This clip is part of the new IWitness activity Information Quest: Kristallnacht.