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Kori Street gave a presentation titled “Listen and Listen Again: Thinking About Testimony and Tolerance” for over 50 staff who work with people who have been granted asylum.
kori street, immigration, presentation, testimony / Tuesday, May 19, 2015
The 45-minute live-streamed broadcast provided a personalized look at USC Shoah Foundation’s recent trip to Poland for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
discovery, past is present, poland, a70, auschwitz / Wednesday, May 20, 2015
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the first integration of Armenian Genocide testimonies into the Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation released one clip from the Armenian Genocide collection on the Institute’s website each day in April 2015 for the next 30 days. To help put the clips into perspective, each one is introduced by experts in the field of the Armenian Genocide. The presenters also recommend additional resources for those who would like to learn more.
/ Wednesday, May 13, 2015
"Singing in the Lion's Mouth: Music as Resistance to Violence" is an event sponsored by USC Visions and Voices, and organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research in collaboration with the Thornton School of Music. The event will include two days of programming that highlight the use of music as a tool to resist oppression and spread awareness.
/ Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Melanie Wallis recalls how she settled in Detroit, Michigan after immigrating to the United States in 1947.
clip, female, jewish survivor, immigration, detroit, melanie wallis / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Stefan recalls the evening of November 4, 1941, when leaving the theater where he worked in Torun, Poland, he encounters a German soldier who turns out to be a man named Willi, his first real romance.Foreign words in this video clip:Ersatzkaffee (German): substitute coffee
kosinski, gay, homosexual, soldier, torun, male / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
In the fascinating short documentary The Past is Present, teachers and students share their experience going to Poland to learn from testimony and commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
comcast, past is present, a70, poland, auschwitz / Friday, May 22, 2015
After several months together, Willi must break the news to Stefan that he is being transferred to the Eastern front.
kosinski, gay, homosexual, male, soldier, eastern front / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
On the way to show his friend Zygmund the shed where Stefan and Willi would regularly meet, the two encounter three men who had just escaped the Stutthof concentration camp.Foreign words in this video clip:pedo (Polish): derogatory word for a gay person
kosinski, gay, homosexual, prisoner, stutthof, concentration camp, aid giver, aid provider / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
After time goes by without receiving a letter from Willi, Stefan decides to write the German soldier himself. His decision to put down his return address on the envelope seals his fate. Not long after, September 19, 1942, the Gestapo bring Stefan in for questioning.Foreign words in this clip:Haftbefehl (German): arrest warrantHandschenkel (meant to say Handschellen) (German): handcuffsVerhöre (German): police interrogations
kosinski, gay, homosexual, correspondence, arrest, gestapo / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
After his arrest in September 1942, Stefan Kosinski was incarcerated while awaiting his trial. In this clip, he recounts the conditions in the jail and his memory of seeing his mother out the window of his jail cell keeping vigil. She is also present during his trial before the Nazi court, which sentences Stefan to five years hard labor. Foreign words in this clip:pedo (Polish): derogatory term for a gay personschwul (German): gay, homosexualZuchthaus (German): penitentiary
kosinski, gay, homosexual, male, prison conditions, trial / Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Watch Judith Goldstein’s full testimony from the Visual History Archive as part of Comcast’s Days of Remembrance: PastFORWARD broadcast April 15-June 1, 2015. From her childhood in Vilna, Poland, to her adult life in the United States, the arts have rarely been very far from Judith Goldstein.
/ Friday, May 22, 2015
Hannah Altbush describes the horrible experience of being expelled from her school in Nazi Germany simply because she was Jewish.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Hannah Altbush, education, anti-jewish measures / Monday, May 18, 2015
Stefan (Teofil) Kosinski’s testimony is the only English-language testimony we have in the Visual History Archive from a homosexual survivor, which is also remarkable for the fact that Stefan is not a native English speaker.
GAM, gay, homosexuality, holocaust, homosexual, paragraph 175, gay rights, Gay Pride Month, gay pride, op-eds / Monday, May 18, 2015
As a young girl Hedy Epstein returned home from school in Nazi Germany to find her house empty, locked and her parents nowhere to be found. She describes the terrifying confrontation with a Nazi when looking for her parents.
clip, female, jewish survivor, discrimination, mistreatment, hedy epstein, nazi germany, nazi / Wednesday, May 20, 2015
John K. Roth Professor of History and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, and 2015 USC Shoah Foundation Yom Hashoah Scholar in Residence Dr. Wendy Lower discusses the role of German women in the Nazi killing fields.
presentation / Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Three women tell their stories of struggle, courage, and resilience, and share their vision of rebuilding societies broken by genocide.
presentation / Thursday, May 21, 2015
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Center Fellow Peg Levine, PhD, EdD, discusses her term Ritualcide and its application during the Cambodian Genocide.
presentation / Friday, May 22, 2015
Yehuda Danzing remembers the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by British Armed Forces in April 1945. He describes the confusion of liberation since he didn’t understand English and he thought the British soldiers announcing his freedom were Nazi soldiers giving more orders.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Yehuda Danzing, bergen-belsen / Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive played a prominent role in two events in Prague last week: Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden’s annual alumni conference and a photography exhibit of the famous “Auschwitz Album.”
Prague, Czech Republic, Martin Smok / Wednesday, May 27, 2015
When reading a published article or book, it can be easy to forget how many hundreds of hours of research the author put in in order to bring the project to fruition. Many scholars do this research completely on their own, but some are lucky enough to have an assistant.
/ Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Max Iland reflects on personal struggles with faith and suffering. He is brought to tears at the thought of how much his mother and brother must have suffered on their way to the concentration camp and when they were sent to the gas chambers.
clip, jewish survivor, Max Iland, faith, sharing reluctance / Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Over 100 students and teachers who participated in USC Shoah Foundation’s testimony-based art and writing project in Hungary this year came together last week for a closing celebration that honored the students’ achievements and showcased their thoughtful responses to testimony.
hungary, art, Andrea Szőnyi / Thursday, May 28, 2015
A USC Soá Alapítvány és a Zachor Alapítvány immár harmadik éve hirdetett művészeti pályázatot általános iskola felső tagozatán tanuló és középiskolás diákok számára. Idén január 27-e, az auschwitz-birkenaui láger felszabadulásának 70. évfordulója és a holokauszt nemzetközi emléknapja tiszteletére vártuk a pályaműveket.
/ Thursday, May 28, 2015
Dr. Bertram Schaffner, who served as a military psychiatrist during World War 2, recounts how he dealt with the military's anti-gay policy while evaluating draftees.
homosexual, male, rescuer, witness, gay, gay pride, tcv, clip, Bertram Schaffner / Thursday, May 28, 2015
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Kitty Fischer recounts her time in Auschwitz-II Birkenau when as a young girl she encounters for the first time a gay male prisoner who will turn out to save her life.
jewish survivor, female, homosexual, rescue, auschwitz / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Thanks to the quick response of a homosexual prisoner at the Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke labor camp (a subcamp of Sachsenhausen), Douglas Fox escaped from a line of transferred prisoners who were unknowingly being given a lethal injection upon their arrival.
jewish survivor, male, Sachsenhausen, oranienburg, homosexual / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Tibor Pivko remembers when the Nazis destroyed the Czechoslovakian town of Lidice in retaliation for the assassination of high ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, by Czech and British resistance soldiers.
clip, jewish survivor, Tibor Pivko, male, Reinhard Heydrich assassination / Thursday, May 28, 2015