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Ingeborg Kantor worked at a German ammunition factory in Berlin under forced labor. She remembers a forelady who would sneak her and the other female workers pieces of food. Ingeborg states that she was the only one out of that group of woman to survive the Holocaust and after the war she connected with the forelady.

clip, female, jewish survivor, Ingeborg Kantor / Friday, December 20, 2013

Izchak Goldblatt on Wolfsberg Concentration Camp

Izchak Goldblatt remembers the food rations at the Wolfsberg concentration camp, which was a sub-camp of Gross Rosen. He reflects that as the months went on the conditions at the camp worsen including less food portions and the spread of diseases.

clip, male, jewish survivor, Wolfsberg, Izchak Goldblatt / Friday, December 20, 2013

Jules Barrash Remembers Christmas in France during WWII

While deployed in France, US armed forces liberator Jules Barrash remembers asking a French farm couple to cook him and a group of about 15 soldiers a dinner for Christmas in exchange for sea rations and food from the army.

clip, male, liberator, Jules Barrach, christmas / Monday, December 23, 2013

Harold Alexander on Aid Giving

Harold Alexander fled Nazi controlled Germany to the United States and then joined the United States Army. He returned to Germany towards the end of WWII as an American soldier and met a Jewish woman who was still in hiding. He remembers helping the woman and her family by bringing them a truck full of food and connecting them to family in the United States.

clip, male, jewish survivor, liberator, aid giver, Germany, harold alexander / Monday, December 23, 2013

Simon Wiesenthal on the mutual struggle against National Socialism

Recalling his time held in different concentration camps where he met several inhabitants who were not Jewish, Simon Wiesenthal addresses the need to provide a united front in fighting against another recurrence.

clip, jewish survivor, Wiesenthal, male, nazism, national socialism / Monday, December 23, 2013

Abraham Brumberg Remembers Fleeing to Japan

Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat helped thousands of Jews flee to Japan by issuing them Japanese transit visas. Abraham Brumberg and his family were saved because of Sugihara’s brave efforts. Brumberg remembers the journey from Europe to Japan and recalls his first impression of the islands of Japan.

clip, male, jewish survivor, japan, Abraham Brumberg, Chiune Sugihara / Monday, December 23, 2013

Esther Bem with a Message to the Future

Esther Bem desires future generations to know there were some virtuous individuals during the Holocaust, who sacrificed their security and life, in order to help others.

clip, female, jewish survivor, esther bem, future message / Monday, December 23, 2013

Cuando el racismo es ley

/ Thursday, January 2, 2014

2012 Yom HaShoah Scholar in Residence Lecture with Dr. Yehuda Bauer

April 16, 2012: In an exclusive trip from Jerusalem to Los Angeles, Yehuda Bauer brought more than five decades of experience as a pre-eminent international advisor and scholar on the Holocaust to USC for this special engagement.

/ Thursday, January 2, 2014

2012/11/15: 2012-2013 Institute Fellow Lecture, Dr. Sean Field "There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back"

November 15, 2012: Dr. Sean Field discussed oral histories in the context of both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Centre for Popular Memory in South Africa and approaches to studying memories of violence.

presentation, sean field / Thursday, January 2, 2014

2013/11/07: An Evening Conversation with Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr. Xu Xin

November 7, 2013: How does location impact the way teaching the Holocaust is approached? USC Shoah Foundation brought together Professors Yehuda Bauer and Xu Xin for the first time in a discussion of the differences of teaching Jewish Studies and the Holocaust in Israel and China. Each will explore the challenges they face in dealing with the Holocaust and comparative genocide in their cultural, linguistic, and historical context.

presentation / Thursday, January 2, 2014

2012 Viewer's Choice: "Never the Same" by Zoe Jablow

by Zoe Jablow

student voices, student videos, sv2012, student film / Friday, January 3, 2014

2012 Entry: "The Responsibility Remix" by Kevin Vavasseur

by Kevin Vavasseur