Doris Lazarus is a docent at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the first institution to pilot New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), a collaboration between USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), in partnership with concept developer Conscience Display. Doris reads a letter she wrote to Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter when he visited the museum in June 2015.
Filter by content type:
Filter by date:
Rescuer, WW2
Interview language: Hungarian
György Kis, a Catholic priest, rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, speaks about the power and influence of propaganda.
May 9, 2014: Earlier this year, Dajani made headlines when Palestinian and Israeli media reported on the trip to Poland he took with thirty Palestinian students, in which he brought the students to Auschwitz and other concentration camps to learn about the Holocaust. Palestinian media attacked him, accusing him of attempting to brainwash his students or turn them into Zionists, and he was fired by his union.
In this clip from her 2019 interview with Dr. Stephen Smith, Ivy Schamis, an educator at Parkland High School, stresses the value of Holocaust education.
More on Ivy Schamis
Listen to Ivy reflect on the importance of reaching out after an act of violence.
Explore our IWitness activity, Bonding Through Adversity.
On November 19, 2015, visiting scholar Maximilian Strnad gave a lecture on the role that intermarriage played in the survival of German Jews during World War II.
Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Interview language: Hungarian
Gábor Verő recalls the brutal treatment his brother endured from a Ukrainian kapo (prisoner who worked inside of camps) at the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria. He describes his brother’s death shortly before liberation.
The murder of extended families, the targeting of community leaders, the critical role of eyewitnesses--each of these factors surfaces in Haigas Bonapart’s interview. These tactics are all too familiar to those of us who study the crime of genocide and the strategies employed by its perpetrators. By destroying communal ties and eliminating those individuals who might rally a group in self-defense, civilians under systematic assault are made much more vulnerable to isolation and mass violence.
November 8, 2012: Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda spoke at the institute's Sexual Violence Against Women During the Holocaust Symposium, co-sponsored by Equality Now. Ms.
Chair: Gabor Toth, Digital Humanities and History, Yale University
Holocaust survivor Mira Shelub shares a message of hope for future generations.