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In 2017, Mr. Feingold recorded a more than 4 hour testimony with USC Shoah Foundation as part of the Last Chance Testimony Collection, enabling Holocaust survivors to share their stories for USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive—before it is too late—where they will exist in perpetuity.
For 25 years, USC Shoah Foundation has given voice to survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides with the goal of educating people around the world, and inspiring action. The 55,000 women and men in its Visual History Archive® share their life stories — of trauma and loss, as well as culture and family, and ultimately survival. Representing more than a century of history, these testimonies provide an enduring legacy of memory. As long as there are still witnesses ready to speak, their voices must be heard.
La existencia de la ciudad se remonta al menos al siglo 12. Después de la partición de Polonia en 1772, la ciudad fué anexada al imperio austríaco de los Habsburgo, volviendo al gobierno polaco sólo después del final de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Durante ése tiempo, Oświęcim se convirtió en un centro industrial y un importante nudo ferroviario. La población judía en 1921 era 4.950. En vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, había alrededor de 8.000 Judios en la ciudad, más de la mitad de toda la población . Oświęcim fué ocupado de inmediato al início de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En octubre de 1939, fué anexado en la Gran Alemania.
“I am ashamed to say this,” Ursula said to me. We were sitting in her lovely Los Angeles home in the middle of the day on a Saturday in February. All the lights in her house were off, but the blue skies outside graced her face, her 90-year-old wrinkles defined. “I was so stupid to believe that when Hitler died, that the world would come to the end.”
On May 7, 2020, in conjunction with a virtual screening of Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Camps, USC Shoah Foundation hosted a conversation with WWII Liberator Alan Moskin and Holocaust survivor Dr. Edith Eger.