100 Days to Inspire Respect
Saba discusses the role and expectations of women in the Orthodox Jewish community.
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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.
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.
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.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Daniel recounts how his male gender led to his Jewish identity being exposed by Nazis while he pretended to be an altar boy at a Catholic orphanage in Belgium.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Alice explains how feminism has positively impacted her life.
Theary recounts a debate among her family about where to travel next as refugees of the Cambodian Genocide.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Paul describes how he fled German-occupied Austria for Czechoslovakia. He didn't have a visa and was quickly discovered and forced to leave the country.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Benjamin Lesser speaks about how his family found a Jewish community in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.