Ioanida Costache, a PhD Candidate in Music at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Breslauer, Rutman and Anderson Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
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Edith Englander speaks of the kindness and assistance she received from non-Jews who took care of what used to be her father’s wine business upon her post-liberation return to her hometown in Czechoslovakia.
Maël LeNoc, a PhD Candidate in Geography at Texas State University, has been awarded the 2019-2020 Margee and Douglas Greenberg Research Fellowship at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research.
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Erika Breier-Vadnai remembers the day she was liberated from the Budapest ghetto, Hungary, by the Soviet armed forces. She states it was on January 18, 1945.
Leon Bass, US military veteran, reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and how he was inspired by King’s message of non-violence. Leon was at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 for the March on Washington and he describes his experience of watching Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream,” speech.
Gitow will consult on a variety of topics and initiate collaborations between the Shoah Foundation and the UN.
Janina Bauman urodziła się w Warszawie 18 sierpnia 1926 r. w rodzinie inteligenckiej, całkowicie zasymilowanej, niereligijnej. Jej ojciec Szymon Lewinson był lekarzem urologiem, tak jak wielu innych członków jej rodziny. Janina miał 13 lat, gdy we wrześniu 1939 r. wybuchła II wojna światowa. Wtedy jej ojciec został zmobilizowany do wojska jako oficer rezerwy. Razem z innymi polskimi oficerami został internowany przez armię sowiecką, przebywał w obozie w Kozielsku, a potem razem ze swoim bratem został zamordowany w Katyniu.