Buchenwald camp liberator Leon Bass reflects on the discrimination he experienced while going to college in the United States after his military service.  Leon describes how baffled and angry he felt that he was encountering the same type of prejudice and threat of civil liberties that he fought against during WWII. This testimony clip is featured in the new IWitness Activity, Fighting in the Face of Racism. 
clip, leon bass, male, liberator, racism, IWitness activity / Thursday, February 20, 2014
afh2010, speech, gala / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2010, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2010, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2010, speech, gala / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2010, speech, gala / Friday, February 21, 2014
Iako Behar and his family emigrated from Bulgaria to Mexico after the war. Iako discusses in Spanish the cultural differences between the two countries but also reflects on how welcoming the Mexican community was to his family.
clip, male, mexico, jewish survivor, iako behar, bulgaria, spanish / Friday, February 21, 2014
Their focus is on Mexican-American youth activism of the 1930s and ‘40s, but the students in USC’s Echoes of the Mexican Voice journalism course will draw on aspects of USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive when they create their own multimedia website this semester.
usc, annenberg, mexico / Friday, February 21, 2014
Martin Šmok was making a documentary film in the summer of 1994 about the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia during World War II when he realized that the key witnesses he needed to interview all lived far away from his home in the Czech Republic. While looking for help, he came across the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, then just beginning its quest to interview 50,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses around the world. Šmok was hired as an interviewer.
/ Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2010, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
event / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2011, speech, gala / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2011, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2011, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2011, speech, gala / Friday, February 21, 2014
afh2011, gala, speech / Friday, February 21, 2014
event / Friday, February 21, 2014
Pianist Alice Sommer reflects on the musical performances and Czech composers she knew in Terezín (also known as Theresienstadt camp-ghetto). Alice Sommer died February 23 2014 in England; she was 110 years old and the oldest known Holocaust survivor.
clip, female, alice sommer, terezin, music / Monday, February 24, 2014
Special event to be hosted at Annenberg center.
/ Monday, April 23, 2012
Holocaust survivor recalls experiences in Poland.
/ Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Technology will enable interactive involvement.
/ Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Former Ambassador elaborates on criminal tribunals.
/ Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Experts partner with local activists.
/ Friday, January 27, 2012
Archive features testimonials of survivors.
/ Thursday, January 26, 2012
Co-sponsored by U.S. Mission to the UN in observance of International Day of Commemoration.
/ Thursday, January 19, 2012
Used extensively in Europe and Latin America.
/ Friday, January 13, 2012
Attendees from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Ukraine.
/ Thursday, January 12, 2012
Participants will be from Israel, the U.K. and U.S.
/ Friday, December 23, 2011
Exhibit focuses on the Cuban Jewish Communities origins and history.
/ Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Attendees tour Holocaust-related sites.
/ Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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