Jewish survivor Rae Kushner describes when the Soviet Union occupied Poland after World War II, Kushner, along with the few family members that survived the Holocaust, left Poland to look for refuge in any country that would open its doors. Finally, reaching Italy Kushner waited over three years in a displaced persons camp before immigrating to the United States.
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Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Jacques, a witness to the Armenian Genocide, discusses Armenian refugees, including the famous Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky.
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research offers fellowships to support USC undergraduate students, graduate students, and USC faculty in conducting summer research using testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and/or other unique USC collections and resources. This event features four of the Center's five Summer 2016 research fellows from a variety of disciplines who will share their research and reflect on the use and value of testimonies in their projects.
On January 27, 2017, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Holocaust Memorial Centre in Budapest debuted a new exhibition that draws on the Visual History Archive testimony of survivor Katalin Bárány.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Tama describes how she learned English in school after immigrating to the United States.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Theoneste Karenzi recalls his encounter with a family of other Tutsi refugees.
A critical element in countering hate and inspiring respect is an understanding of culture and learning to value cultural differences.