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November 2 marks the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of the Karachai people, who Soviet authorities accused of having collaborated with the Germans during World War II. Over 70,000 Karachais were transported in cattle cars in deplorable conditions from the North Caucasus to Central Asia, beginning on November 2, 1943.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Sergey Albert, Karachai, déportation / Friday, November 1, 2013
Hanna Nelson recalls working for the German army in the Riga ghetto in Latvia. Hannah explains how her job had saved her life because when she returned from work one day the ghetto had been liquidated.    
clip, jewish survivor, female, riga ghetto, Hannah Nelson / Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Sigmund Tobias and his family fled Berlin, Germany, and arrived in the Hongkew district of Shanghai about June 1939. There, he attended the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School and the Mir Yeshiva. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Tobias family, along with most of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, were forced by the Japanese to live, under difficult conditions, in the Hongkew ghetto. He describes his visit to Shanghai in 1988, almost 50 years after his arrival there as a refugee from Germany.
clip, male, jewish survivor, sigmund tobias, Shanghai / Wednesday, November 6, 2013
杨女士讲述了1937年南京的大屠杀以及她的家人所遭受的损失。她至今还清楚地记得日本士兵的暴行。杨女士解释了为什么她的家人未能在屠杀之前逃离那个地区
/ Wednesday, November 6, 2013
亨利讲述了他在1940年夏天逃离德国柏林来到中国上海,并回忆起了与之生离死别的家人。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
戈特先生表达了他对中国人民的感激之情并解释了上海是如何作为他和家人在战时的避难所。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
朱迪斯描述了上海虹口隔都拥挤的住宅条件,那段几乎没有私人空间的生活让她记忆犹新。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
伊娃回忆起了二战期间正值童年的她在上海的生活条件,她还讲述了当时的日常活动。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
贝托尔德•卡兹谈到了一名当时负责为生活在上海虹口隔都的犹太人发放每月通行证的名叫合屋的日本官员,回忆起了合屋对隔都居民的粗暴施虐 。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
希尔德加德女士回忆了她于1947年秋乘坐“海军陆战队蝰蛇”号美国海军运输船从上海前往加州旧金山的经历。她解释说这次旅行是由美犹联合救济委员会(JDC)资助的。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
米莉阿姆女士阐述说,生活在中国上海的犹太难民并没有在战后留在上海的意向,这在某种程度上帮助他们保留了在战争中生存下来的希望。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
伊娃讲述了虹口隔都居民间的人际关系,并回忆了她和家人是如何在那样艰难的情况下与其他人建立友谊、保持人性的。
/ Thursday, November 7, 2013
Sigi Hart remembers the celebration of his Bar Mitzvah in the ruins of the burnt down synagogue his family attended in Berlin, Germany. He recalls it took place a few days following the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in November 1938.
clip, jewish survivor, Sigi Hart, kristallnacht, male / Friday, November 8, 2013
In 1943, Don Shimazu, joined the US Army, like many other Japanese-American soldiers, to prove his loyalty to the United States. He participated in the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp as a member of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion organized as part of the 442nd Regimental Combat team. Don explains how this experience influenced his values and attitudes in his postwar life.
clip, male, liberator, veteran, Don Shimazu, dachau / Friday, November 8, 2013
In November 1938 a pogrom broke out throughout Germany and across the Sudetenland. Tom Tugend remembers hearing the mob and the breaking of glass outside his family’s home in Berlin during Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass.”
clip, jewish survivor, male, Tom Tugend, kristallnacht / Monday, November 11, 2013
Ann Monka was born in Lida a small town with a prosperous Jewish population in Poland. Ann and her mother were separated from her brother, sister and father after escaping the Lida Ghetto. Ann remembers when she and her mother hid in the Polish forests with the Bielski Partisans, while the rest of her family escaped deportations by jumping from the Nazi transport trains.
clip, female, jewish survivor, ann monka, poland / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
opposition, lesson, clip, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
opposition, lesson, clip, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
opposition, lesson, clip, female, jewish survivor / Tuesday, November 12, 2013
clip reel / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
clip reel / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
lesson, male, jewish survivor / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
lesson, jewish survivor / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Helen Freibrun decided to tell her story with the hope of preventing the Holocaust from happening again.
clip, survivor, female, helen freibrun, future message / Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Norbert Bikales remembers the day he was excluded from attending a non-Jewish German school in Berlin, Germany, shortly after the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in November 1938. He reflects on how this event changed his life.
clip, jewish survivor, male, Norbert Bikales, school / Thursday, November 14, 2013
Vladka Meed remembers how children were smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto.  Some parents even left their babies on the steps of churches in order for them to be saved.
clip, vladka meed, female, jewish survivor, children / Thursday, November 14, 2013
Dorothy Abend remembers the deportation from Bialystok Poland to a force labor camp in Vologda, Russia. She reflects on the horrible conditions of the cattle train trip, which lasted three weeks.   
clip, jewish survivor, female, déportation, dorothy abend / Monday, November 18, 2013
Miriam Aviezer was just a child when she was separated from her mother and deported to Stara Gradiska concentration camp. She remembers the other children on the cattle train car ride and felt thankful that she was not alone.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Miriam Aviezer, children, déportation / Tuesday, November 19, 2013
In November 1945 the trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany. Fred Baer remembers attending the Nuremberg Trials and how the court was assembled by the allied nations.  
clip, male, war crimes trial, Fred Baer, nuremberg trial / Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Александр Исаакович Гельман описывает условия жизни в гетто, организованным оккупационными властями в Бершади, Винницкой области, во время войны.
clip, male, jewish survivor, portal / Wednesday, November 20, 2013

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