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Judith describes the overcrowded housing conditions in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China and discusses the general lack of privacy.
China and the Holocaust, ghetto living conditions, clip / Monday, June 17, 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 / Monday, June 17, 2013
Berthold Katz talks about Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official responsible for giving monthly passes to Jews who were living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China and remembers his brutal treatment of the ghetto inhabitants.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya, clip / Monday, June 17, 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 / Monday, June 17, 2013
Henry describes his flight from Berlin, Germany, to Shanghai, China, in summer 1940 and recalls the family members he left behind.
China and the Holocaust, flight to China, clip / Monday, June 17, 2013
Gert expresses his gratitude towards Chinese people and emphasizes that Shanghai served his family as a place of refuge during the war.
China and the Holocaust, attitudes toward Chinese, clip / Monday, June 17, 2013
Stefan speaks of his arrest by the Gestapo in his place of birth, Torun, Poland. Stefan relates how he was interrogated, brutally beaten and subsequently imprisoned as a result of an intimate letter he wrote to an Austrian soldier in German uniform. View his entire testimony at http://vhaonline.usc.edu/login.aspx
stefan kosinski, survivor, homosexual, gay, male, clip / Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In Soviet-occupied Dubienka, Poland, located by the Bug River and on the border with Ukraine, Sam Szor remembers the military fortification by German armed forces in anticipation of the upcoming invasion of the Soviet Union. He describes the invasion, which took place in the dawn of the morning hours of June 22, 1941. It was his birthday. He recalls the retreat of the Soviet armed forces and the resulting fear felt by the Jewish population with the German occupation of Dubienka.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Sam Szor / Thursday, June 20, 2013
speech, afh, robert iger, event, gala / Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Celina Biniaz, a “Schindler Jew,” remembers hearing about the end of the war while listening to an underground radio at the munitions factory set up by Oskar Schindler in the Brünnlitz concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Brünnlitz concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet armed forces in May 1945. With the approach of the Soviets, Oskar Schindler left and arranged for several of the camp personnel to leave as well. Celina Biniaz remembers her liberation and describes her liberators.
clip, celina biniaz, female, jewish survivor, liberation, brünnlitz, schindler / Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Marion Pritchard recalls bringing up the topic of homosexuality at the dinner table and how her father took her aside to discuss the importance of tolerance.
She passed away in 2016 at the age of 96. Read our tribute to her.
clip, rescuer, aid provider, female, homosexuality, gay, radclyffe hall / Wednesday, June 26, 2013