This theme focuses on the ways in which survivors observed Jewish holidays in the ghettos and camps.
religious, religion, holiday, observance, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Esther Clifford discusses events of the Kristallnacht pogrom, November 9-10, 1938 and recalls the state of fear that drove her to flee her hometown of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.  
kristallnacht, pogrom, clip, female, esther clifford / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Kurt describes what he observed in the aftermath of the Kristallnacht pogrom in Berlin, Germany, in November 1938.
kristallnacht, pogrom, clip, male, Kurt Messerschmidt / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Esther Gever remembers trying to protect her father from being arrested. Gender: FemaleDOB: April 14, 1930City of birth: ViennaCountry of birth: AustriaGhettos: NoWent into hiding: YesOther experiences: Displaced Persons Camps  
kristallnacht, pogrom, female, clip, Esther Gever / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Fred Katz remembers his birthday coinciding with the Kristallnacht Pogrom. Gender: MaleDOB: November 10, 1927City of birth: OberlauringenCountry of birth: GermanyGhettos: NoWent into hiding: NoOther experiences: Kindertransport  
kristallnacht, pogrom, male, clip, Fred Katz, jewish survivor / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Eva Abraham Podietz went to school as usual during the Kristallnacht Pogrom only to be sent right home again. On her way home, she encountered Nazi youths. Gender: FemaleDOB: May 22, 1927City of birth: HamburgCountry of birth: GermanyGhettos: NoFled Nazi Occupied Territory: Yes  
kristallnacht, pogrom, female, clip, Eva Abraham-Podietz / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Herbert Karliner's family business was destroyed during the Kristallnacht Pogrom, prompting the family to leave Germany. Gender: MaleDOB: September 3, 1926City of birth: PeiskretschamCountry of birth: GermanyCamps: Boussac (France : Concentration Camp)Went into hiding: Yes  
kristallnacht, pogrom, male, clip, Herbert Karliner / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Jacob Wiener recalls being taunted by his classmates during the Kristallnacht Pogrom. Gender: MaleDOB: March 25, 1917City of birth: BremenCountry of birth: GermanyGhettos: NoWent into hiding: NoFled Nazi-occupied Territory: Yes  
kristallnacht, pogrom, male, clip, Jacob Wiener / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish Holocaust Survivor Robert Behr describes how the events of Kristallnacht shook his family's belief in a civil Germany. Gender: MaleDOB: March 1, 1922City of birth: BerlinCountry of birth: GermanyGhettos: Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia)Camps: Zossen-Wulkow bei Trebnitz (Germany : Concentration Camp)  
kristallnacht, pogrom, clip, male, Robert Behr / Sunday, May 5, 2013
The Kristallnacht Pogrom was an organized pogrom against Jews in Germany, Austria and parts of former Czechoslovakia (the Sudetenland) that occurred on November 9–10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the November Pogrom, “Night of Broken Glass,” and “Crystal Night.” Orchestrated by the Nazis in retaliation for the assassination of a German embassy official in Paris by a seventeen-year-old Jewish youth named Herchel Grynzspan, 1,400 synagogues and 7,000 businesses were destroyed, almost 100 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
kristallnacht, pogrom, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jewish SurvivorHear Ferdinand Tyroler tell the story of how he and Edith Weiss, two teenagers who met in the Auschwitz III-Monowitz slave labor camp, fell in love under unimaginable circumstances. Ferdinand recalls how, in spite of fear and constant threat of death, he and Edith managed to find hope in each other, dreaming of their future together. 
love, valentines, clip, male, Ferdinand Tyroler / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Clips of survivors recalling times in their lives during the Holocaust when they still managed to find love.
love, holocaust, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, hy abrahms, testimony / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, erna anolik / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, esther bem, female / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, male, alex chevion / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, female, romana farrington / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, male, henry greenblatt / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, male, James Hayes / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, female, kristine keren / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, male, ellis lewin / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, female, miriam tauber / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, male, rwanda, rwandan survivor, Kizito Kalima / Sunday, May 5, 2013
Freddy Mutanguha is a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Today he works with Aegis Trust as Regional Director, East Africa.
full, testimony, male, rwanda, rwandan survivor, Freddy Mutanguha / Sunday, May 5, 2013
full, testimony, holocaust, male, Sam Steinberg / Sunday, May 5, 2013
“We have to stick together, and whatever happens, we will try to die together, so that none of us should be left alone. But this was the only dream we had; if we have to die, that we should die together.”—Nechama Shneorson
full, testimony, female, holocaust, nechama schneorson / Sunday, May 5, 2013
“I think this is very important … what you are doing to keep the memory of the people alive. Because the survivor community is diminishing … because one sentence, one episode that a survivor has to share that nobody else did, is worthwhile.” —Isaac Goodfriend
full, testimony, male, holocaust, Isaac Goodfriend / Sunday, May 5, 2013
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iwitness, teaser, promo, education / Tuesday, May 7, 2013
rwanda, rwandan survivor, clip, mtw, lesson, Kizito Kalima / Tuesday, May 7, 2013

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