When Tiffany Taylor, director of Teach for America – Detroit, first received an email inviting her to join the advisory board for USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Detroit program, she admits it was the first time she had heard of IWitness.But one line in the email caught her eye: “testimony-based education.” Taylor said she was intrigued by this idea and thought immediately about its potential for strengthening the educational movement in Detroit by uplifting student voices in a way that only firsthand experiences can.

Ibolya (Szalai) Grossman remembers being mistreated by neighborhood friends and acquaintances on the day she and and her infant were deported to the Budapest Ghetto.

Paula Lebovics describes her family's desperate search for visas to emigrate from Germany after the war. She remembers being surprised at how easily she acquired an American visa and was able to begin a new life in Detroit, Michigan.

Virtually everyone has listened to a popular song with its lyrics changed for comedic or dramatic effect. But a perhaps little-known fact of the Holocaust is that this type of parody was also a common practice in some of the most hellish places on Earth: concentration camps.