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Dans cet extrait, Sarah Montard raconte comment elle est parvenue à s’échapper du Vélodrome d’Hiver avec sa mère, chacune de leur côté.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Vel d'Hiv / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Reine Klotz raconte son retour à Paris après la Libération et son travail au ministère de la Guerre, consistant à régulariser la situation de milliers de résistantes.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Marcel Kuchman raconte l’action menée par son maquis contre les Allemands à Tulle. Il évoque la répression des résistants par la division Das Reich à Tulle et à Oradour-sur-Glane, et celle menée au Mont-Mouchet et dans le Vercors.
Marcel Kuchman est né le 8 janvier 1923 à Varsovie (Pologne). Il a un frère aîné, Jean, et un frère cadet, Georges. Son père Bernard exerce la profession de boulanger. Il grandit dans un milieu populaire, bien intégré, et fréquente les réunions du parti communiste.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Denise Lévy raconte les difficultés matérielles qu’elle rencontre après la Libération lorsqu’elle se réinstalle à Paris avec ses parents.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Bernard Teperman raconte comment il s’est installé place Guichard avec son groupe franc au moment de la libération de Lyon. Là, il reçoit des dénonciations de collaborateurs, procède à des enquêtes et à l’élimination des coupables.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Frida Wattenberg raconte comment elle fut envoyée à Clermont-Ferrand par la Résistance. Là, elle dut récupérer le fichier des Juifs au Bureau des questions juives de la ville.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Denise Weill raconte l’arrestation des enfants de la rue Vauquelin, en juillet 1944. Elle évoque la fin de la guerre, l’inquiétude pour ses proches et la peur du bombardement du 26 août 1944, au lendemain de la libération de Paris.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
Dans cet extrait, Victor Zigelman évoque son engagement dans les FFI après la Libération de Paris. Il raconte les entraînements militaires, son désir de combattre et l’attente vaine, pendant un an, pour partir au front.
CNRD / Monday, December 2, 2013
L’édition 2013-2014 du Concours national de la Résistance et de la Déportation propose aux élèves des collèges et lycées de réfléchir sur le thème de « la libération du territoire et le retour à la République ». Afin de nourrir la réflexion des candidats, nous leur proposons de visionner une série de témoignages.
/ Monday, December 2, 2013
On the night of Sidney Bratt’s interview his family was celebrating Hanukkah. He recites the Hanukkah candles blessings from the Jewish prayer book (Siddur) which once belonged to his mother, and is surrounded by his wife and grandchildren while doing so.
clip, male, jewish surivor, sidney bratt, hanukkah / Monday, December 2, 2013
Students will interact with the stories of Holocaust survivors who immigrated to America in the newest IWitness activity, “New Beginnings – Journey to America,” published today.
/ Monday, December 2, 2013
Let's just say I throw my smartphone over the wall into the Warsaw ghetto.
Along with it, I send instructions to make a video diary until the battery drains, then to wrap it in lots of newspaper before throwing it back.
op-eds / Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education (CHHANGE) is hosting its annual conference for Holocaust educators Friday, featuring USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith as keynote speaker.
Stephen Smith, conference, Holocaust education / Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Jakub Mlynar works with USC Shoah Foundation across the world from the majority of its staff, but his enthusiasm can be felt all the way from the Czech Republic.
Mlynar is the coordinator of the Malach Center for Visual History, a Visual History Archive access site located at Charles University in Prague. He is also its 2013 teaching fellow, preparing to teach a sociology course using the Visual History Archive next winter.
/ Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Ursula Bruce was only a child when her family fled Nazi Germany to South Africa in the 1930’s. When Ursula married and had her own family she became very involved in human rights and joined the Institute of Race Relations. Even Ursula’s son refused to join the South African military to protest the government’s racist policies. She reflects on her family’s relationship with Nelson Mandela, former South African president and anti-apartheid leader who died on December 5 2013. He was 95 years old.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Usrula Bruce, Nelson Mandela, south africa / Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Czech educators are gathering at the Academy of Sciences in Prague today to attend a conference dedicated to the "Ours or Foreign? Jews in the Czech 20th Century" project from the Jewish Museum of Prague.
Czech Republic, education, teacher, curriculum, jewish survivor, Martin Smok / Wednesday, December 4, 2013
United States army veteran Don Shimazu remembers the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 1941. He was a part of the ROTC (Reserve Officers' Training Corps) at the University of Hawaii and remembers being put on duty right away. A Hawaiian native, he also reflects on the tension the attack created in his family, since his parents were Japanese citizens.
clip, male, liberator, Don Shimazu, pearl harbor / Thursday, December 5, 2013
Sid Shachnow has two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts -- and that's just for his service in Vietnam, where he led his troops with courage and distinction.
“There was no room for conscience,” he confides when discussing his 39 years of military service. “Once I was face to face with a Viet Cong. I had him in my sights as he ran toward me. He dropped his weapon and veered left. I did not pull the trigger. I still do not know if I did the right thing. My conscience got in the way.”
blog, Stephen Smith, Sid Shachnow, op-eds / Thursday, December 5, 2013
Barry Bruk speaks of the deteriorating living conditions in the Lódz ghetto, Poland, in late 1941. He remembers the deportation of thousands of Jews from the Lódz ghetto to the Kulmhof Death Camp in Chelmno, Poland, in January 1941 and relates that his sister, brother-in-law and young nephew were among those deported and killed in the camp.
clip, male, jewish survivor, barry bruk, chelmno, poland / Thursday, December 5, 2013
Gussie Zaks recalls her arrival to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. She remembers the horrible camp conditions and how many women in her camp did not survive.
clip, female, jewish survivor, bergen belsen, gussie zaks / Thursday, December 5, 2013
Secondary school students across France are hard at work on their entries for the 2013-2014 National Contest on Resistance and Deportation – and many of them are drawing inspiration from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive
visual history archive, exhibit, france, contest / Thursday, December 5, 2013
What started as a project for one student quickly turned into a labor of love for four of Clarissa Ngo’s creative writing pupils.
/ Sunday, December 8, 2013