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Cornelia Aaron Swaab says she wanted to give her testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in the hope that by sharing her own experiences with the world, she can do her part to prevent future genocides.
/ Monday, October 26, 2015
Cila talks about how incredibly generous her mother was to many people, and how she used to send various gifts to poor families to help them celebrate Shabbat.
/ Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Haroutune Ayvazian remembers an act from a Turkish man helped saved him and his family.
clip, male, Armenian Series, Armenian Genocide / Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Chava Ben-Amos talks about the education she received in Auschwitz thanks to Fredy Hirsch, an advocate for children in the camps. She remembers various teachers who taught the children poetry, music, movie-making and many other subjects that impacted her life.
/ Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Tana Basa talks about her pride in her Jewish identity, and how she believes her children are lucky to grow up Jewish and Catholic.
clip, religion / Thursday, October 29, 2015
Survivor Irene Adler reads a poem she wrote in the 1960s called "The Yellow Star," about her experiences during the Holocaust.
clip, poetry / Monday, November 2, 2015
Mahima Verma is a sophomore at USC studying Journalism and History. She shares how testimony is inspiring her work as an intern at the Institute.
Begins With Me / Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Marina Kay is senior at USC studying at International Relations and president of USC Shoah Foundation's student organization, Defy. She shares how testimony now plays an integral part of her life in and outside of the university.
beginswithme / Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Dan-Morgan Russell is a senior at USC studying International Relations. Testimony inspires Dan to educate others and inspire policy to help those affected by atrocities.
Begins With Me / Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Neuroscientist Glenn Fox is a researcher at USC Brain and Creativity Institute and used testimony from the Visual History Archive to study the affects of gratitude in the brain.
beginswithme / Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Interviewer: Mr. Laks, what are your activities nowadays?
clip, brazil / Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Peter Komor says the best defense against future genocides is education. He and his granddaughter are both graduates of Cornell University, the 52nd full access site of the Visual History Archive.
clip, education / Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Al talks about what the Holocaust taught him, including the value of freedom, having the right perspective on life, taking action and making decisions in your life, and keeping families together.
clip / Thursday, November 5, 2015
Jennie Sauer describes how her cousin helped her escape from Kurowice concentration camp and join his band of Jewish resistance fighters in the forest. A week after she escaped, the camp was liquidated and most of the prisoners were killed.
clip, genocide resistance / Monday, November 9, 2015
In 1971, Kenneth Colvin, United States Army Veteran was chosen to attend the Liberators Conference in Washington. Colvin describes reuniting with his fellow liberators and how they were still affected by their experiences in World War II.
clip, WWII, veteran, Veterans Day, Kenneth Colvin, liberator / Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Jan Karski echoes the sentiments of many Holocaust survivors who chose not talk about their experiences for the first 35 years after the war. Though he was not a survivor himself, he did not want to think about the violence and inhumanity he had witnessed.
clip, rescuer / Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Liberator Morton Barrish talks about his reasoning for giving testimony, largely because he wanted to educate the younger generation and make the story of the Holocaust very well known.
clip, liberator / Thursday, November 12, 2015
William talks about his experiences as a young German boy attending school in Scotland without knowing how to speak English, and how a teacher set aside time to work with him privately. He also talks about the education system in Scotland, specifically the "Eleven-plus exam."
clip, education / Friday, November 13, 2015
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Doba Apelowicz reads a poem she wrote in Yiddish about Goldela, a young woman she knew in Birkenau.
clip, birkenau / Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Famed musician and Holocaust survivor Victor Borge describes how he was targeted by Nazi sympathizers in Denmark. They harrassed him at his concerts, attacked him in the street, and published articles about him in their papers.
clip / Wednesday, November 18, 2015
At a time when antisemitism is on the rise, USC Shoah Foundation’s Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony program aims to push back against its spread. Over the past two years, the Institute has been recording video testimonies of people whose lives have been disrupted by contemporary acts of violent or virulent antisemitism, as well as experts on the matter and advocates who have made a dedicated effort to counter the hate.
clip / Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Klara Adler describes her family's orthodox religious practices before the Holocaust and says her religion is still very important to her today.
clip, religion / Thursday, November 19, 2015
On November 19, 2015, visiting scholar Maximilian Strnad gave a lecture on the role that intermarriage played in the survival of German Jews during World War II.
presentation / Monday, November 23, 2015
Marione describes how her non-Jewish father was pressured to divorce her mother, who was Jewish, in Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s. He was severely beaten, but still refused to divorce his wife.
clip, nazi germany / Monday, November 23, 2015
Peter Komor remembers his first Thanksgiving in the United States.
clip, thanksgiving / Monday, November 23, 2015
Rwandan Tutsi Genocide survivor David Karasira describes the discrimination and violence he faced as a Tutsi at school.
clip / Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Hersch talks about anti-Semitism in Poland and the denial amongst the Jewish people that anything terrible would really happen to them.
clip, poland, anti-semitism / Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Frieda talks about giving up her possessions and what life was like in the Warsaw ghetto. She talks about the education she received and how culture still continued to thrive in the ghetto.
clip, warsaw ghetto / Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Hyman Schwartzblatt describes how his mother, who had already been killed, visited him in a dream while he was in a Nazi prison and told him how to escape.
clip, escape / Friday, December 4, 2015
Esia Shor explains how a couple that she had worked for outside the Nowogrodek ghetto helped her disguise herself and hide when she ran to their house after escaping the ghetto. Today, Esia and 30 other Holocaust survivors were honored by New York Congressman Joseph Crowley in Bronx, New York, for their contributions to society.
clip / Friday, December 4, 2015