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Irene describes how she was raped every day while she was in prison in Yugoslavia.
clip / Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Thomas D'Aquino describes in this clip his impressions upon entering Dachau.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
liberation, comcast / Thursday, November 2, 2017
World War II veteran Brendon Phibbs recounts liberating French dignitaries, including the premier, held captive by the Nazi's. He also mentions some infamous characters he and his troops rounded up around the same time.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
In this short clip, World War II veteran David Pollock talks about the impact that the devastation of the war had on what he wanted to do with his life as a post-war civilian.
Watch his full-length testimony on vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
Liberator Ernest James offers a word of advice to future generations about the importance of personal responsibility, especially the charge of democratic participation.
Watch his full-length testimony at vhaonline.usc.edu
/ Thursday, November 2, 2017
Holocaust liberator Floyd Dade decribes liberating Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria.
clip / Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Liberator Katsugo Miho describes what happened when he entered Dachau and encountered the prisoners there.
clip / Wednesday, November 8, 2017
British liberator Hugh Stewart describes how survivors were triaged upon liberation so that the most critical patients could get care. He also discusses the possibility that civilians knew what was really going on inside.
clip / Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Alexander Hinton discussed his new book Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. In his book, Professor Hinton uses creative ethnographic writing, extensive fieldwork, hundreds of interviews, and his experience attending Duch's trial to create a nuanced analysis of Duch, the tribunal, the Khmer Rouge, and the after-effects of Cambodia's genocide.
presentation, lecture, discussion, cagr, Cambodian Genocide, khmer rouge / Thursday, November 16, 2017
Harry Fischer, a Jewish refugee from Germany, recalls how his family obtained permission to stay in Rio Abajo, Panama, and how they adjusted to the tropical climate.
clip / Friday, November 17, 2017
Rohingya refugee Abdul Hamid explains why the Rohingya people cannot return to Myanmar.
clip / Tuesday, November 28, 2017
In this lecture, Irina Rebrova discusses her research on the process of remembrance and translation of the memory about the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, South of Russia. She studies the mechanism of storytelling by Holocaust survivors interviewed by the Shoah Foundation in the early Post-Soviet states in the 1990s.
presentation, discussion, lecture, cagr / Wednesday, November 29, 2017
In this lecture, Professor Geraldien von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel explores Jewish-gentile relations in the Netherlands in the years just before, during and just after the Holocaust.
discussion, lecture, cagr, presentation / Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Holocaust survivor Alice Craig talks about her cousin, the artist Alice Lok Cahana, and how they reunited decades after the Holocaust.
clip / Thursday, December 7, 2017
In this footage following the filming of the 1998 USC Shoah Foundation documentary The Last Days, Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana pays tribute to her sister Edith during a return visit to Bergen Belsen.
clip / Thursday, December 7, 2017
Holocaust survivor Alice Lok Cahana, who appeared in the 1998 USC Shoah Foundation documentary The Last Days, is seen here in her art studio, showing one of her paintings to her daughter.
clip / Thursday, December 7, 2017
Dachau survivor Ernest Gross and liberator Donald Greenbaum meet at a diner. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Herman Cohn reads the letter he wrote to his wife after witnessing the liberation of Dachau. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Jimmy describes an interaction he had with a survivor during the liberation of Dachau. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
Dachau survivor Joshua Kauffman talks about survival. From "The Liberators: Why We Fought," available Nov. 7-December 29, 2017 on Comcast Xfinity's USC Shoah Foundation PastFORWARD broadcast.
/ Friday, December 8, 2017
In this clip, Beatrice Muchman recalls her favorite holiday when she was a little girl in hiding in the Belgian countryside with a Christian woman who hid her and her cousin. At the time, Beatrice and her cousin had converted to Catholicism. She eventually returned to her Jewish faith particularly through the help of her husband's family.
christmas, jewish survivor, female, hiding, holiday, christian conversion, clip / Wednesday, December 20, 2017
In this clip, Robert Waisman, a Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration camp, and Leon Bass, the American soldier who helped liberate the camp each recall what they saw on April 11, 1945.
liberation, clip reel, dachau / Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Kurt, an American soldier, and Gerda, a Holocaust survivor, recall how they met the day Kurt liberated her from a derelict factory where Nazi soldiers abandoned her and other women during a death march.
liberation, clip reel, death march, Kurt Klein, gerda klein / Tuesday, January 2, 2018
In this clip from testimony recorded in Bangladesh in 2017, Anwar Sadek, a Rohingya refugee, refuses to stay silent about the Myanmar government's treatment of the Rohingya.
/ Friday, January 5, 2018
As we look ahead in 2018, we offer a few moments of joyful music from the Visual History Archive.
music, music recital, clip reel / Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Barbara Reichmann survived the Holocaust by going into hiding and concealing her identity. In order to survive, she volunteered to work as a Polish forced laborer, which brought her eventually to Ulm, Germany. She was liberated by French armed forces. In Munich, she met her husband, Leon Reichmann, and had a daughter. They eventually emigrated to the United States.
/ Thursday, January 11, 2018
In this clip, Holocaust survivor Raphael Zimetbaum recounts how Brazilian ambassador Luis Martins de Souza Dantas granted him and his family diplomatic visas, allowing them to eventually escape to Brazil. The ambassador also happened to be married to Elise Meyer, sister of Washington Post owner Eugene Meyer, Katharine Graham's father.
clip, subtitled, holocaust survivor / Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Testimony brings to life why we join World Jewish Congress and communities everywhere for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the #WeRemember campaign.
/ Thursday, January 25, 2018
Drawing on USC Shoah Foundation oral history videos, personal papers, and other sources, Dr. Diane Marie Amann's lecture situates stories of the unsung women who played vital roles at Nuremberg in the context of the Nuremberg trials themselves, international law, and the postwar global society.
Diane Marie Amann is the inaugural 2017-2018 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellow.
presentation, discussion, lecture, cagr / Thursday, February 1, 2018
Executive Director Stephen D. Smith introduces our work in the area of virtual reality with a look at "The Last Goodbye," a VR short featuring Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter as he takes you on an intimate journey through the Majdanek concentration camp.
/ Wednesday, February 14, 2018