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Margaret Lambert recalls her experience as an athlete on the Olympic team in Nazi Germany in 1936. Lambert's testimony is featured in the IWitness Activity, 1936 Olympics: Race, Politics & Civil Rights.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Berlin, olympics, margaret lambert / Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Edith Hamberger remembers the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by the German Armed Forces, which occurred on the night of March 12 through March 13, 1938.
clip, female, jewish survivor, anschluss, Austria, Edith Hamberger / Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Sonia Warshawski describes her life after she and her husband migrated to the United States. She also recalls how she educated her children about her experiences in the Holocaust.
clip, Sonia Warshawski, jewish survivor, family / Thursday, March 13, 2014
Agnes Kun worked in the hospital at Auschwitz II-Birkenau as an assistant nurse. She recalls Josef Mengele, particularly his presence at the hospital.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Anna Heilman remembers helping her sister, Ester Wajcblum, smuggle gunpowder to aid in the Sonderkommando uprising at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Ester Wajcblum was hanged publicly in the camp on January 1, 1945.
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auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Monday, March 17, 2014
Dennis Urstein was a Kanada Kommando in Auschwitz who collected inmates' belongings they were forced to leave behind. He reflects on witnessing the arrivals of new inmates to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.See more clips on Auschwitz
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary, clip / Monday, March 17, 2014
Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt remembers painting a mural based on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on a wall in one of the children's barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Ellis Lewin describes the horror of arriving at Auschwitz; he remembers stepping out of the cattle car and witnessing barking dogs, chaos, separation of women from men, and beatings by Nazis.
clip, auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Erna Anolik recalls the intake procedures at Auschwitz, including shaving off her hair, undressing in front of soldiers, and only being given a grey dress and wooden shoes.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Eugene Zinn recounts how he was forced to dig up mass graves because of the stench and his attempt to burn the bodies with wood and kerosene.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Hellmuth Szprycer recalls the arrival to Auschwitz II-Birkenau from Theresienstadt. He reflects on the chaos at the camp once he stepped out of the cattle car.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Herschel Balter reflects on how important music was to him while imprisoned in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He sings the same lullaby he used to sing while in the camp.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Itka Zygmuntowicz reflects on the camp orchestra within Auschwitz that was forced to play music while inmates were sent to the crematoria.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Kitty Hart-Moxon recalls being able to see Crematorium 4 from her barrack window at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Linda Breder was a Kanada Kommando in Auschwitz who collected inmates' belongings they were forced to leave behind. Linda remembers how a Nazi soldier disciplined inmates complaining of thirst. Years later Breder testified at that soldier’s war crime trial.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Renée Firestone remembers arriving at Auschwitz II-Birkenau with her sister, whom she tried desperately to hang onto so they would not be separated.See more clips on Auschwitz
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Monday, March 17, 2014
Ruth Brand recalls the horrible intake procedures at Auschwitz including shaving her head, undressing in front of soldiers and only being given one dress.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Pearl Delikat remembers celebrating the Jewish holiday, Purim, with her family.
clip, female, jewish survivor, purim, Pearl Delikat / Friday, March 14, 2014
Emmanuel talks about the last time he saw his pregnant cousin alive.Born: January 10, 1975City of Birth: Rutonde (Rwamagana, Rwanda)In hiding: Kicukiro (Kigali, Rwanda)Liberated by: Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)Liberation location: Nyamirambo (Kigali, Rwanda)
rwanda, genocide, male, subtitled / Monday, March 17, 2014
rwanda, partner, IBUKA, Doug Greenberg / Monday, March 17, 2014
Italian television coverage (RAI) of the launch of a new collection at the Archivio Centrale dello Stato (Central State Archives) containing Italian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive. The Institute's Managing Directory, Kim Simon, was also interviewed for the piece.
In Italian with English subtitles.
subtitled, kim simon / Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Erno Abelesz remembers when German forces occupied his home country of Hungary on March 19, 1944.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Erno Abelesz, hungary, occupation / Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Mirgazim Sabirov was a teenager when he and his family rescued a Jewish family during the mass executions at Babi Yar. His family was not a part of an underground resistance or rescue group but acted alone. The atrocity at Babi Yar claimed the lives of 100,000 men, women, and children.
rescuer, subtitled, male, clip / Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Gisela Dollinger’s husband, Bernard Dollinger was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna, Austria. Gisela persuaded Gestapo personnel to release her husband and saved Bernard from being deported to a concentration camp. Gestapo personnel told Bernard and Gisela they had two weeks to leave Austria or they would be deported; the couple then fled to Shanghai.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Austria, gestapo, gisela dollinger / Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Seventeen students and alumni of Comcast’s and One Economy's Digital Connectors Program piloted the Institute’s new online application, IWitness. During the program, students utilized IWitness to develop video projects that explored their understanding of the Holocaust and its connection to their own lives.
Hear students and educators at the Digital Connectors Program speak about their experience.
/ Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Renée Firestone reflects on the importance of tolerance and hopes that future generations will learn from her testimony, and stand up against prejudice.
clip, female, Renee Firestone, future message, jewish survivor / Thursday, March 20, 2014
Participants in the September 2010 panel discussion, titled “Rwanda: Confronting a Painful Past,” included Beth Meyerowitz, USC Professor of Psychology; Mathilde Mukantabana, Professor of History at Cosumnes River College and President of Friends of Rwanda Association; Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Memorial Centre and Secretary General of IBUKA; and James Smith, CEO of Aegis Trust. Lyn Boyd-Judson, Director of the USC Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, moderated the discussion.
/ Thursday, March 20, 2014
Eighteen new Master Teacher candidates attended the 2010 Teaching with Testimony workshop from July 26-30, 2010. In this video, the participants share their impressions about their experience at the workshop.
/ Friday, March 21, 2014
Thirty-one teachers from 22 regions of Ukraine attended a national teacher training seminar on the use of a new multimedia educational kit, Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933: The Human Dimension of the Tragedy.In Ukrainian with English subtitles.
/ Friday, March 21, 2014