Edward Adler remembers being imprisoned for going on a date with a non-Jewish girl, which violated the Nuremberg Laws, a set of discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures enforced by the Nazi regime in 1935.
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In this clip from her 2017 testimony, Anneliese recalls telling her grandchildren how antisemitic vandalism is now a crime. In her youth during the Nazi regime, such violence was condoned by the state.
Former United States Representative Elizabeth Holtzman describes her experience on writing and passing legislation in 1978 to expel the Nazi war criminals who, to her surprise, had immigrated to the United States.
Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were experimented on by infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. She describes how one experiment had nearly killed her but she promised herself she would survive.
Henny Bauer describes how Jews in Vienna were forced scrub the streets and Nazi officers’ homes. She explains her response to an SS officer when she was ordered to complete the discriminating task.
Marione describes how her non-Jewish father was pressured to divorce her mother, who was Jewish, in Nazi Germany in the mid-1930s. He was severely beaten, but still refused to divorce his wife.
In October 1941 the Nazi’s started to transport Jews from Vienna to ghettos in Easter Europe. Regine Cohen remembers when she and her family were deported from their home in Vienna to a ghetto.
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Simone Maria Liebster survived religious persecution as a Jehovah's Witness during WWII under the Nazi regime. She describes how she stood up for her beliefs despite intense opposition.
Alfred Eisner recalls hearing about the assassination of the infamous SS official Reinhard Heydrich. Eisner also describes the retaliation by the Nazi’s towards the Czech people including the destruction of the village of Lidice.
Jewish survivor Fritz Schulmann fled to the Philippines from Nazi controlled Germany in 1939. Fritz remembers his life as a refugee in the coastal town Bacolod and reflects on the generosity of his German-Filipino landlord.