Holocaust liberator Shiro Takeshita describes being in the Salinas State Assembly Center (Japanese internment camp) and seeing an old man killed by a guard simply for being too close to the camp fence.
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Elie Borowski is overcome with emotion remembering the French army's retreat after the fall of Paris in 1940.
Jewish survivor William Good shares his incredible escape story from the Ponary massacre in Lithuania.
Highlights from the USC Shoah Foundation Junior Interns' field trip to Manzanar National Historic Site, June 27, 2016.
Jewish survivor Oskar Lustig reflects on his childhood in Budapest, Hungary.
Jewish survivor Donia Blumenfeld Clenman recites her powerful poem titled "Justice," which summarizes her feelings about the Holocaust during what was the 50th anniversary of the war's end.
Agnes explains how the young men she knew who were sent off to forced labor camps made jokes about their situation in order to keep their spirits up.
Jewish survivor Nora Danzig explains her difficult experience at a foster home in England after being sent away on the Kindertransport from Germany at age 9 by her parents, whom she never saw again.
Jewish survivor Ruth Reiser remembers her wonderful childhood spent in Prague with her family.