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Judith Agular describes anti-Jewish restrictions including being forced to live in a “Yellow-star House,” in Budapest, Hungary.
clip, female, jewish survivor, judith aguilar, budapest, yellow star house / Monday, June 23, 2014
Emmanuel Muhinda describes the persecution of Tutsi and anti-Tutsi propaganda he witnessed before the genocide started in April 1994. His testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Information Quest: The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
clip, male, tutsi survivor, rwanda, Emmanuel Muhinda / Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Henry Laurant remembers the first time he experienced antisemitism in Nazi Germany. He was targeted by other children who were influenced by Nazi rhetoric. His testimony is featured in the multimedia professional development program, Echoes and Reflections.
clip, male, jewish survivor, anti-semitism, henry laurant, echoesandreflections / Thursday, June 26, 2014
Dina Angress knew Anne Frank as a shy and quiet schoolmate in Amsterdam. Even though they weren’t close friends, she speaks on how Anne Frank’s diary was so relatable to her own story. Dina also relates on the importance of tolerance and Holocaust education.
clip, pastforward, jewish survivor, female, Dina Angress, Anne Frank, future message / Monday, June 30, 2014
Jan Karski speaks on being smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto to report on the horrible conditions and the destruction of Polish Jewry. He also recalls how he recently met, just months prior to his interview, a very successful business man, who as a child followed Karski around in the ghetto.
clip, aid provider, jan karski, warsaw ghetto / Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Robert Fisch speaks on the importance of standing up to intolerance and the dangers of being a bystander.
clip, jewish survivor, male, future message, robert fisch / Thursday, July 3, 2014
Jean Sothere Ndamyuwera reflects on life after the genocide in Rwanda and the lessons he learned. He also speaks on the importance of tolerance and forgiveness. Jean’s testimony is featured in the IWitness activity, Information Quest: The Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
clip, rwanda, male, rescuer, aid provider, Jean Sothere Ndamyuwera, future message / Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Eliezer Dowin speaks on the horrible living conditions and the forced labor in the camp of Karwin. Dowin recalls explaining to Czech prisoners that he was interned at the camp not for a crime but just for being Jewish.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Eliezer Dowin, Karwin, forced labor / Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Robert Ronald speaks about the establishment on July 10, 1940, of the new regime in Vichy, France with full power being granted to Marshal Philippe Pétain.
clip, jewish survivor, vichy france, robert ronald, male / Thursday, July 10, 2014
After liberation from a forced labor camp in Austria, Alan Brown returned to his home in Budapest, Hungary. Alan speaks about recuperating from typhus and learning about Auschwitz and the gas chambers from other survivors.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Alan Brown, hungary, liberation / Friday, July 11, 2014
Gene Klein describes arriving at Auschwitz and seeing his family members for only a few seconds before they were separated for the camp selection process. He recalls that his father was sent straight to the gas chamber because of his white beard.
clip, male, jewish survivor, auschwitz, camp selections, Gene Klein / Monday, July 14, 2014
Lina Jackson remembers the roundup of her family members because they were Sinti and Roma, and their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz. She describes the difficult conditions of the cattle car. This testimony clip is featured in the book, Testimony – The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation.
clip, female, roma sinti survivor, roundup, deporation, auschwitz, Lina Jackson / Wednesday, July 16, 2014
On July 20, 1944, a bomb exploded at Adolf Hitler’s headquarters in East Prussia. This plot was attempted by the German military to assassinate Hitler to gain control of the German government. Lisa Slater was at Hitler’s headquarters that day and recalls the chaos and consequences of the failed plot.
clip, female, eyewitness, lisa slater, prussia, assassinate Hitler, July 20 plot / Thursday, July 17, 2014
In the summer of 1944 members of the International Red Cross visited Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. In an effort to present Theresienstadt as a model ghetto, the Nazis deported many Jews to Auschwitz to alleviate overcrowding, renovated buildings and staged musical performances and other activities. Margot Friedlander remembers when the Red Cross visited the ghetto and speaks on the façade.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Margot Friedlander, terezin, Theresienstadt, red cross / Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Robert Fleisher describes what it was like living in Vienna, Austria during World War I, including the grim conditions and turmoil the country faced during the war and thereafter.
clip, male, jewish survivor, WWI, Vienna, Austria / Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Henry Rosmarin remembers when he was called into the commandant’s quarters at Dyhernfurth concentration camp in Germany late one night and told to play a musical piece by Schubert on the harmonica. Henry credits his musical skills on saving his life. Henry’s testimony clip is featured in the book, Testimony – The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation.
clip, male, jewish surviovr, henry rosmarin, harmonica, music, concentration camp, testimony the book / Thursday, July 24, 2014
Kizito Kalima speaks on how he received an athletic scholarship while living in a refugee camp, which eventually led to his immigration to America. He also describes how playing basketball was a positive outlet for him as a young man.
clip, male, tutsi survivor, Kizito Kalima, immigration, rwanda / Monday, July 28, 2014
Hank Schwab describes the structure of his primary and high school in Germany. He also reflects on the close relationships he formed with his Jewish and gentile classmates. Schwab and fellow survivors returned to Germany for the first time since WWII, for their 50th high school reunion.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Hank Schwab, Germany, reunion, friendship, education, classmates / Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Jewish survivor Felix Flicker joined the Soviet Armed Forces in 1943. Flicker recalls arriving at Majdanek concentration camp after it was liberated in July 1944. He describes the prisoners looking like skeletons and the arrests and executions of the camp guards.
clip, male, jewish survivor, liberator, Soviet armed forces, felix flicker, liberation, majdanek, concentration camp / Thursday, July 31, 2014
On August 2nd, 1944 the Zigeunerlager (known as the Gypsy famliy camp) in Auschwitz- Birkeanau was liquidated and about 3,000 Sinti and Roma men, women and children were sent to the gas chambers. In honor of the Sinti and Roma victims in the Holocaust, survivors Wladyslaw Gunman, Anna Kwiatkowska and Marianna Koniak speak about their experiences with discrimination, restrictions, deportations and mass murder.
clip, reel, roma sinti survivor, auschwitz / Friday, August 1, 2014
July 24, 2014: Harry Reicher, Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania and USC Shoah Foundation's inaugural Rutman Teaching Fellow, utilized his fellowship to collect Holocaust survivor testimony content he could utilize in his classes, which currently make liberal use of multimedia content.Featuring historical footage, Nazi propaganda film, modern cinema clips, and Visual History Archive testimony, Reicher's lecture provided an overview of the Nazi legal system and demonstrated the value of film in teaching this subject.
presentation / Monday, August 4, 2014
Leo Hymas, United States Armed Forces and Buchenwald camp liberator speaks only for the second time in his life about a particular combat operation in Düsseldorf, Germany. This testimony clip was featured in the lesson, Heroes, from Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century.
clip, male, liberator, leo hymas, Düsseldorf, armed forces, american / Monday, August 4, 2014
Throughout August 1944 the Lodz ghetto was liquidated until almost all the ghetto inhabitants were finally deported to Auschwitz. Philip Ravski recalls the liquidation and how his family evaded deporation until the end of August.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Philip Ravski, Lodz ghetto, liquidation, déportation, auschwitz, memory / Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Dario Gabbai recalls his experiences as a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He was forced to usher people into gas chambers, and then haul out the bodies, take them to the crematorium, and clean up the room for the next group of victims.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Dario Gabbai, sonderkommand, auschwitz, o / Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Rita Feder was a young girl during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and remembers how desperately she wanted to attend the games but was unable to because she was Jewish. Feder recalls how dangerous it was for Jews during that time even though there was an international audience in Berlin.
clip, female, jewish survivor, discrimination, Rita Feder, Berlin Olympics, 1936 / Friday, August 8, 2014
Herbert Achtentuch remembers when he and other Jewish school children were expelled from their school and forced to attend a school in the Jewish district of Vienna. He also recalls the anti-Semitism and violence from former gentile students.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Herbert Achtentuch, anti-semitism, education expulsion, jewish restrictions, Vienna, Austria / Monday, August 11, 2014
Yehudi Lindeman reflects on his childhood in Holland and recalls the anti-Semitism he experienced from other children.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Yehudi Lindeman, anti-semitism, Holland, anti-Jewish, discrimination / Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Carl Wilkens speaks on recording audio memoirs while living in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. His reasoning for recording the messages wasn’t necessarily to document what was happening but the recording would be an audio diary for his family in case he didn’t survive.
clip, male, aid provider, rwanda, Carl Wilkens, tutsi, genocide, documentation, memory, memiors / Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Herman Cohn speaks on the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany and how it affected his family. This testimony clip is featured in the educational resource Echoes and Reflections.
clip, male, jewish survivor, nuremberg laws, nazi germany, herman cohn / Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Luisa Haberfeld remembers the selection process at Majdanek including being separated from her brother and father. Her testimony is feature in the IWitness Activity:Chance & Choice: A survivor's story.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Luisa Haberfeld, iwitness, majdanek, camp selections / Thursday, August 14, 2014