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William recalls the joyful celebration of Simchat Torah-the holiday marking the completion of weekly Torah readings- with Rabbi Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, holding a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) - in the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. The celebration took place even though the barrack was surrounded by German soldiers.

clip, religion, religious, holiday, simchat torah, simhat torah, male, William Stern, résistance / Thursday, October 16, 2014

Eva Kor – Growing Up Behind the Barbed Wire

Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were experimented on by infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. She describes how one experimented had nearly killed her but she promised herself she would survive. Eva’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity Growing Up Behind the Barbed Wire.

clip, female, jewish survivor, eva kor, twin, medial experiment, iwitness, Mengele, auschwitz / Thursday, October 16, 2014

Kaja Finkler on Raphael Lemkin

Kaja Finkler speaks admirably of her mother, a student of modern thought despite her orthodox Jewish background. Kaja recalls how her mother studied law in pre-war Poland with Raphael Lemkin, who later coined the term genocide.

clip, jewish survivor, Kaja Finkler, Rafael Lemkin, poland, law, memory / Friday, October 17, 2014

Elena Nightingale on anti-Jewish measures

Elena Nightingale speaks how life changed for her family in the late 1930’s when anti-Jewish laws were enforced in Italy. She describes how her father was forced out of his job and she felt like a second class citizen.

clip, female, jewish survivor, Elena Nightingale, anti-Jewish, antiSemitism, laws, Italy / Monday, October 20, 2014

Ildephonse Gasana

Ildephonse Gasana reflects on life after genocide including learning how to forgive and to be more tolerant of one another. Gasana’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

clip, male, tutsi survivor, rwanda, iwitness, Ildephonse Gasana / Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Theoneste Karenzi on Gacaca courts

Theoneste Karenzi recalls the Gacaca courts and the perpetrators he testified against.

clip, male, tutsi survivor, Theoneste Karenzi, rwanda, Gacaca courts / Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Art from Auschwitz-Birkenau

This video reel from the IWitness activity Art in the Face of Death is a collection of artworks, including poetry, song, drawings, paintings and sculpture created by survivors in response to the Auschwitz-Birkenau experience. Some of the art pieces throughout this video are courtesy of Yad Vahsem and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

iwitness, Art in the Face of Death, auschwitz / Wednesday, October 22, 2014

David Pollock on the United Nations

Buchenwald liberator David Pollock describes why he decided to work at the United Nations after he was discharged from the Canadian military. Pollock worked for the United Nations for nearly thirty years.

clip, male, liberator, David Pollock, united nations, un / Thursday, October 23, 2014

Nathan Offen recalls the separation of his family

Nathan Offen recalls when he last saw his younger sister Miriam and his mother before they were deported to a concentration camp. He also speaks about the emotional and physical toll the splitting up of the family had on his father. His testimony is featured in Lesson 5 of Echoes and Reflections

clip, male, echoes and reflections, nathan offen, krakow, déportation, family seperation, jewish survivor / Monday, October 27, 2014

Elżbieta Ficowska on the importance of memory

Elżbieta Ficowska, a Jewish survivor from Poland, speaks about her experience, so she will continue to remember her parents and other loved ones that perished in the Holocaust. Ficowska describes how there isn’t any physical trace of her parents except for a grave stone she found on a Warsaw Jewish cemetery. Her birth certificate is a silver tee spoon engraved with her name and birthdate, which her father gave to her babysitter on “Aryan side” of Warsaw.

clip, female, Elżbieta Ficowska, jewish survivor, memory / Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Daisy Miller on the Visual History Archive

Daisy Miller speaks on the importance of the Visual History Archive and how the collection of audiovisual testimonies to the Holocaust will be a valuable resource in education for generations to come.

clip, female, jewish survivor, Daisy Miller, visual history archive, education / Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Roméo Dallaire on the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

Roméo Dallaire describes how quickly violence escalated in Rwanda in 1994 and his disappointment in the lack of support from the international community.

clip, male, aid provider, Roméo Dallaire, rwanda, genocide, inaction / Thursday, October 30, 2014

Herschel Balter on singing in Auschwitz - Birkenau

Herschel Balter describes the role that singing played for him while he was imprisoned in Auschwitz- Birkenau. Herschel’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Auschwitz – Inner Strength, Outward Resistance.

clip, male, jewish survivor, Herschel Balter, auschwitz, iwitness / Thursday, October 30, 2014

Philip Markowicz remembers a live-saving act of kindness

Philip Markowicz describes when he and his brother were transported to Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany and the incredible act from a bystander, which saved their lives.

clip, male, jewish survivor, Philip Markowicz, testimony, upstander, bystander, one act, beginswithme / Friday, October 31, 2014

Liliane Bentitou on hiding in France

Liliane Bentitou reflects on hiding in Lyon, France and how she was able to conceal her identity with false papers.

clip, female, jewish survivor, Lyon France, Liliane Bentitou, hiding / Tuesday, November 4, 2014

David Faber recalls childhood anti-Semitism

David Faber recalls the anti-Semitism he experienced as a child in pre-WWII Poland. He describes numerous instances where he was abused physically and emotionally by non-Jewish children on his way to and from school.

clip, male, jewish survivor, David Faber, poland, antiSemitism, childhood, bigotry, prejudice, iwitness / Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Lili Meier on Obtaining the Auschwitz Album

Lili Meier describes how she found a photo album, which has become known as the Auschwitz Album, in a deserted SS barracks on the day she was liberated from the Dora concentration camp. The Auschwitz Album is the only known collection of photographs taken by the Nazi SS at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness activity Arrival at Auschwitz – Images and Individual Experiences.

clip, female, jewish survivor, auschwitz, lili meier, auschwitz album, iwitness / Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Miriam Ziegler

Miriam Ziegler recalls how she reunited with other Holocaust survivors after she immigrated to Toronto. She also reflects on the famous photo of herself and other the children of Auschwitz photographed by Russian liberators.

clip, female, jewish survivor, auschwitz, photo, memory, reunion, Miriam Ziegler / Friday, November 7, 2014

Celina Biniaz on transportation to Auschwitz

Celina Biniaz describes how she and her parents were selected to be on Schindler’ List. She also recalls when the women transport from Plaszow was sent to Auschwitz instead of to the Schindler factory in Brünnlitz.

clip, female, jewish survivor, celina biniaz, auschwitz, schindler jew / Wednesday, November 12, 2014

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