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Hildegard talks about her arrival in San Francisco, CA in September 1947, after having spent the war years in Shanghai, China. Hildegard describes the joy she felt when her ship reached the shore of the United States.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam discusses her family's preparations to leave China after liberation and explains the U.S. immigration policies established for refugees. She remembers her trip to San Francisco, CA, on the board of the "USS General W. H. Gordon" troop ship in June 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erich speaks of his mother's immigration preparations to leave Shanghai after liberation. He talks about postwar refugee emigration from China and discusses the immigration routes. He recalls his trip to the United States in January 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Lilli reflects on the hardships of her life in the wartime Shanghai, China, and discusses the coping mechanism she had developed as a refugee, learning to live one day at a time.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam explains that the Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, had no intention to stay there once the war ended, and that helped them to retain hope in surviving the war.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva talks about the impact her experience of living as a Jewish refugee in China had on her childhood. Despite the hardships she had endured, she expresses her gratitude toward China for having provided a place of refuge to her and her family during the Holocaust.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes various national backgrounds represented by Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, during the war. She briefly speaks of the cultural activities pursued by the Jewish refugees-inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes the patterns of relationships among the inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and focuses on the friendships she and her family had formed while retaining their humanity under difficult circumstances.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erika details the relationships she had with the local non-Jewish population, while living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Alfred talks about the relations between the Jewish refugees and the local, Chinese population in Shanghai during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Robert Clary remembers being taken with his parents from his apartment in Paris, France, on September 23, 1942, and relates they were deported to the Drancy Transit Camp shortly thereafter. He explains that his half‐sister, Ida, her husband and two small sons had managed to evade deportation on July 16th, but were arrested for deportation that same date.
clip, déportation, Paris, Robert Clary, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Inge and her sister Edith left Zurich, Switzerland for London, United Kingdom, to be reunited with their father after the war. Inge relates that her mother, who had made her way to Sweden after liberation, also joined them in England. It was 1946.
family, reunion, post-war, female, clip, jewish survivor / Thursday, July 18, 2013
Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, recalls the negative effects of labeling in the classroom before the genocide.
rwandan survivor, male, clip, labeling / Friday, July 19, 2013
Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.
clip, male, jewish survivor, terezin, Theresienstadt, liberation, soviet army, Pinchas Gutter / Monday, July 22, 2013
From July 25 to July 26, 1941, 3,800 Jews were killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kaunas, Lithuania. As a child Masha Loen witnessed the pogrom in her hometown after her family tried to escape to Russia and were sent back to Kaunas by Russian soldiers.
GAM / Friday, July 26, 2013
November 8, 2012: Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda spoke at the institute's Sexual Violence Against Women During the Holocaust Symposium, co-sponsored by Equality Now. Ms.
Jane Fonda, event, reading, performance, presentation / Monday, July 29, 2013
Leopold Page survived the Holocaust by working in Oskar Schindler’s factory. Page remembers how Mr. and Mrs. Schindler saved hundreds of Jews by taking them off cattle train when no other camp would accept them. Also the Schindlers gave personal medical attention to the very sick.
Page was instrumental in telling Oskar Schindler’s heroic story, which led to the book and later the movie, Schindler’s List.
Leopold Page, Oskar Schindler, male, jewish survivor, clip, rescue / Monday, July 29, 2013
Helen Fagin discusses her efforts and risk to educate fellow ghetto inhabitants in the Radomsko ghetto in Poland.
helen fagin, education, ghetto, radomsko, poland, female, clip, jewish survivor, IWD / Tuesday, July 30, 2013
In preparation for the start of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Nazis in power decided to minimize the presence of anti-Semitism in the city. Hugo Beckerman recalls how he was able to identify the Jewish businesses that were still allowed to run at that time.
Hugo Beckerman, olympics, 1936, clip, male, jewish survivor, Berlin, anti-semitism / Thursday, August 1, 2013
Joli Felsen never wanted to talk about her experience as a young girl during the Holocaust, until her granddaughter begged Felsen to speak to her history class. The schoolchildren were shocked by her story but also grateful for her visit.
clip, female, jewish survivor / Monday, August 5, 2013
Yehudi Lindeman, a child survivor from the Netherlands, speaks of the importance of all people learning from the Holocaust.
clip, message to the future, male, child survivor, jewish survivor / Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Henry Golde remembers arriving at Theresienstadt (Terezín) and was shocked at how beautiful it seemed. Later on he found out how it was all a façade orchestrated for the Red Cross.
/ Wednesday, August 7, 2013
On August 8, 1940, before the Nazis entered Romania, the government started to restrict Romanian Jews from employment and education, which later turned into the Romanization of Jewish businesses. Bellina Aronovich remembers the anti-Semitism and violence against Jews had even started the year before, in 1939.
clip, female, jewish survivor, romania, anti-semitism, romanization / Thursday, August 8, 2013
Dave Lux survived the Holocaust as a child because of Nicholas Winton, who orchestrated the Czech Kindertransport, saving hundreds of Jewish children by transporting them to England. Lux remembers leaving his parents and thinking he’s going on a field trip.
clip, male, jewish survivor, kindertransport, Nicholas Winton / Friday, August 9, 2013
August was the last month of the famous Eichmann Trial in 1961. Margrit Wreschner Rustow talks about her sister being one of the witnesses in the Eichmann trial and that she could not participate because she was working but she watched the trial on TV.
clip, female, jewish survivor, eichmann, trial / Monday, August 12, 2013