100 Days to Inspire Respect

Saba discusses the role and expectations of women in the Orthodox Jewish community.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Renee Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation and went on to become an interviewer herself. She discusses the interviewing process and describes how listening to testimony is an emotional experience.

Robert Clary remembers being taken with his parents from his apartment in Paris, France, on September 23, 1942, and relates they were deported to the Drancy Transit Camp shortly thereafter. He explains that his half‐sister, Ida, her husband and two small sons had managed to evade deportation on July 16th, but were arrested for deportation that same date.

Holocaust survivor Arthur Spindler elaborates on the misconceptions that many people had of Jewish people during the time. Jewish people were illustrated as scary-evil people, that were responsible for the issues in society.

Tutsi Survivor Esperance Kaligirwa recants how her father needed to bribe the police in order to not be arrested. Despite, having an all the necessary documentation her father still was forced to pay to ensure that him and his family could travel safely.

As a young Latino, store employees pretending to be doing a job as they watch me shop is almost expected. The feeling of walking into a Walgreens and an employee looking daggers into you, as if you are guilty just for being who you are never gets old.

Professor Andrea Pető of Central European University in Budapest has written an article about how to use USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive in teaching students at the graduate level. The piece appears as a chapter in the seventh volume of Jewish Studies at the Central European University edited by András Kovács and Michael Laurence Miller.

100 Days to Inspire Respect

Elizabeth recalls a peaceful protest in a nearby town that turned violent, giving her the opportunity to protest against police brutality in Washington.