Lilli reflects on the hardships of her life in the wartime Shanghai, China, and discusses the coping mechanism she had developed as a refugee, learning to live one day at a time.

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.

Eva talks about the impact her experience of living as a Jewish refugee in China had on her childhood. Despite the hardships she had endured, she expresses her gratitude toward China for having provided a place of refuge to her and her family during the Holocaust.

Eva describes various national backgrounds represented by Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, during the war. She briefly speaks of the cultural activities pursued by the Jewish refugees-inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto.

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.

Erika details the relationships she had with the local non-Jewish population, while living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war.

Alfred talks about the relations between the Jewish refugees and the local, Chinese population in Shanghai during the war.

Robert Clary remembers being taken with his parents from his apartment in Paris, France, on September 23, 1942, and relates they were deported to the Drancy Transit Camp shortly thereafter. He explains that his half‐sister, Ida, her husband and two small sons had managed to evade deportation on July 16th, but were arrested for deportation that same date.

Inge and her sister Edith left Zurich, Switzerland for London, United Kingdom, to be reunited with their father after the war. Inge relates that her mother, who had made her way to Sweden after liberation, also joined them in England. It was 1946.

Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, recalls the negative effects of labeling in the classroom before the genocide.  

Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.

From July 25 to July 26, 1941, 3,800 Jews were killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kaunas, Lithuania. As a child Masha Loen witnessed the pogrom in her hometown after her family tried to escape to Russia and were sent back to Kaunas by Russian soldiers.

November 8, 2012: Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda spoke at the institute's Sexual Violence Against Women During the Holocaust Symposium, co-sponsored by Equality Now. Ms.

Leopold Page survived the Holocaust by working in Oskar Schindler’s factory. Page remembers how Mr. and Mrs. Schindler saved hundreds of Jews by taking them off cattle train when no other camp would accept them. Also the Schindlers gave personal medical attention   to the very sick. Page was instrumental in telling Oskar Schindler’s heroic story, which led to the book and later the movie, Schindler’s List.

Helen Fagin discusses her efforts and risk to educate fellow ghetto inhabitants in the Radomsko ghetto in Poland.