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March 25, 2010: Since the Institute’s testimonies were given around 50 years after the events described, researchers must confront issues of memory and reliability. In this session moderated by Andrea Pető (Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Central European University), Robert Rozett, (Director of Yad Vashem Libraries) addresses problems that revolve around memory and reliability. He asks whether testimonies and memoirs bring us closer than other kinds of historical documents to understanding what people went through.
jjf, conference, academic, lecture, panel, presentation, discussion / Monday, August 26, 2013
March 26, 2010: Audio-visual testimonies of traumatic historical events arouse profound emotions in their viewers. The pedagogical questions raised in this session focuses on the appropriateness and/or usefulness of emotionality in teaching about the Holocaust.
jjf, conference, discussion, lecture, presentation, academic, panel / Monday, August 26, 2013
afh2005, afh, Bill Clinton, speech / Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Leon Leyson remembers working in the Schindler factory as a young boy.
clip, male, Leon Leyson, jewish survivor, schindler jew, Oskar Schindler, childhood / Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Leo Bach remembers the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. He especially recalls his family’s emotional response upon seeing the bombardment and the movement of German troops in Kraków, Poland, on the first day of war.
clip, male, Leo Bach, Invasion of Poland, Sept 1 1939 / Friday, August 30, 2013
September 3, 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Rosette Baronoff remembers being a little girl playing outside of her home in Paris and her mother telling her that war had started.
clip, female, Rosette Baronoff, jewish survivor, Paris 1939, declartion of war / Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Mosh Ben-Asher remembers the celebration of Rosh Hashanah in his hometown in Poland before the war.
clip, male, Mosh Ben-Asher, Rosh Hashanah, jewish survivor / Wednesday, September 4, 2013
David Gurvitz describes how he and fellow members of the Vilna ghetto resistance movement planned and prepared their escape from the ghetto during its liquidation in September 1943.
clip, male, jewish survivor, David Gurvitz, Vilna Ghetto / Thursday, September 5, 2013
Flora Altman speaks fondly about her grandparents on both sides of her family. Including the time she persuaded the police chief to release her grandfather after he was captured by police.
clip, female, Flora Altman, jewish survivor, Grandparents, Czechoslovakia / Friday, September 6, 2013
Leon Greenman talks about returning to his home in Holland after being liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Leon Greenman, Buchenwald, returning home / Monday, September 9, 2013
Miriam Tauber’s testimony was filmed on Tuesday September 11th, 2001 in New York City. Miriam and her interviewer talk about the terrorist attacks before continuing with her testimony.
clip, female, miriam tauber, jewish survivor, New York City / Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Rena Finder remembers arriving at Oskar Schindler’s factory after spending weeks in Auschwitz. Rena recalls how the Schindlers risked their lives to save so many Jews during the Holocaust.
clip, Rena Finder, female, jewish survivor, schindler jew, Oskar Schindler / Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Kurt Messerschmidt, a cantor, reflects on the observance of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, in the Theresienstadt ghetto, Czechoslovakia, in 1944. He describes the significance of the concluding service of Yom Kippur, the Neilah service (closing of the gates) followed by the long sounding of the shofar (ram’s horn).
clip, male, jewish survivor, Kurt Messerschmidt, yom kippur / Thursday, September 12, 2013
Marga Randall describes how life changed for her family and the Jewish population in Germany following the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws on September 15, 1935.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Nuremburg Laws, Marga Randall, Germany 1935 / Friday, September 13, 2013
Lisl Appel reflects on immigrating to the United States from Germany and becoming an American citizen.
clip, female, jewish survivor, citizenship, Lisl Appel / Monday, September 16, 2013
In observance of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Alfred Kleeman’s family built a Sukkah (“hut” or “booth”) in which the family ate their meals at their home in Gaukönigshofen, Germany. He remembers the tradition followed by his family in the construction and the decoration of the Sukkah.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Sukkah, Sukkot, Alfred Kleeman / Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Sonia Kempler's father and older brother were both imprisoned at the Breendonk camp in Belgium. Sonia would bring parcels of food to the camp but her father and brother never received the packages.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Sonia Kempler, Breendonk, belgium / Thursday, September 19, 2013