In this lecture, Bieke Van Camp presented some of the findings of her ongoing doctoral research on social interaction and group survival strategies in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. She explored how network analysis of Italian testimonies from the oral collections of the Visual History Archive and the Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea of Milan suggests that a very large majority of Italian Jews were deported initially to the same Nazi Lager (Birkenau) during a rather small lapse of time (October 1943 – 1945).

Elizabeth Bader remembers her grade school in Nazi Germany and recalls her first teacher being relieved of his duties because he was too friendly with Jewish families.

Former Neo-Nazi Peter Sundin knows firsthand how antisemitism can breed hate – and he’s got ideas to counter it.

Shortly after triggering World War II with its 1939 invasion of Poland, Nazi Germany set about repurposing a system of immigrant barracks in the city of Oświęcim to house political prisoners. Renamed Auschwitz, the facility would become the most notorious killing factory in human history.

Tracing this tragic trajectory is the 15-minute documentary “Auschwitz.”

Lotte Kramer reads a sonnet she wrote about her family's gentile friends Nazi controlled Germany.

Sarah Miller remembers fleeing Nazi controlled France and crossing the border into Switzerland in 1944.

Gerson Adler recalls the Stürmer newspaper issued by the Nazi party that promulgated antisemitic stereotypes.

Henry Joseph describes the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg and then the later deporations of Jews in 1941.

Chaim Borenstein remembers the brutality of the SS guards while imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland.

Heinz Geggel was Secretary of the Freies Deutschland anti-Nazi group in Cuba during World War Two.