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/ 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
Celina Biniaz speaks on the importance of educating others to stand up to bigotry and fight intolerance. She reflects on how she has implemented those teachings in her career as an educator and also as a mother and grandmother.
clip, female, jewish survivor, celina biniaz, schindler jew / Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Footage of the special event held April 25, 2014, on the campus of the University of Southern California announcing USC Shoah Foundation's launch of the Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Institute founder and USC Trustee Steven Spielberg was present to make the announcement with USC President C.L Max Nikias. A panel discussion followed with Dean of USC Dornsife College Steve Kay, USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D.
cagr, announcement, nikias, wolf gruner, meyerowitz, Stephen Smith, Steven Spielberg / Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Kurt Thomas was deported from his hometown of Boskovice, first to Brno, then to Terezin ghetto, then to Trawniki and the ghetto of Piaski. Kurt describes his deportation experience including the deportation center, a school, which served as the main assembly point for transports from Brno. His testimony is featured in the new Brno iWalk in Czech Reublic.
clip, male, jewish survivor, kurt thomas, Czech Republic, iwalk / Thursday, May 1, 2014
Sol Messinger was a young boy, nearly seven, when he boarded the ship St. Louis with his family. He describes the voyage from Germany to Cuba. St. Louis was a German ship carrying Jewish refugees who were not permitted to disembark in Havana, Cuba, upon their arrival on May 27, 1939. Sol’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Voyage of the St. Louis: From Hope to Despair.
clip, jewish survivor, Sol Messinger, st louis, iwitness, male / Friday, May 2, 2014
February 18, 2014: In our current digital landscape, information is available at a much faster speed, from a larger variety of sources, and through new mediums. This availability of resources has changed not just the way society stays informed, but the way academic subjects are both explored and taught.The discussion “Finding the Human in Digital Humanities: How Many Bytes Does it take to Get to the Center?” was moderated by Kori Street, director of education at the USC Shoah Foundation.
presentation, lecture / Friday, May 2, 2014
Warren Dunn, Dachau camp liberator, reflects on his school teachers while growing up in California. He describes how both teachers influenced him and how much he respected his high school teacher.
clip, male, liberator, Warren Dunn, teacher, national teacher day / Monday, May 5, 2014
February 20, 2014: A conversation with the United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in ConflictSpeaking at USC on February 20, Zainab Hawa Banguara, the United Nations Undersecretary-General and Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, said that sexual assault is a deliberate tactic used to demoralize not only women – its most frequent targets – but also destroy families and tear apart communities.
presentation / Monday, May 5, 2014
Brendon Phibbs, US Army liberator, remembers hearing the news that Germany surrendered and war in Europe ended on May 7, 1945.
clip, male, liberator, brendon phibbs / Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Herbert Rosen describes V-E Day, Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 1945.V-E Day symbolizes the Allied military victory in Europe and the surrender of German armed forces.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Herbert Rosen, V-E day / Tuesday, May 6, 2014
April 29, 2014: The USC Shoah Foundation Student Association brought Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz, Cambodian Genocide survivor Sara Pol-Lim, and Rwandan Genocide survivor Edith Umugiraneza together for a panel and Q&A about women in genocide, moderated by USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen Smith. Syuzanna Petrosyan, a USC graduate student and third-generation descendant of Armenian Genocide survivors, introduced the event.
presentation, presentations / Thursday, May 8, 2014