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In preparation for the start of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Nazis in power decided to minimize the presence of anti-Semitism in the city. Hugo Beckerman recalls how he was able to identify the Jewish businesses that were still allowed to run at that time.
Hugo Beckerman, olympics, 1936, clip, male, jewish survivor, Berlin, anti-semitism / Thursday, August 1, 2013
Joli Felsen never wanted to talk about her experience as a young girl during the Holocaust, until her granddaughter begged Felsen to speak to her history class. The schoolchildren were shocked by her story but also grateful for her visit.
clip, female, jewish survivor / Monday, August 5, 2013
Yehudi Lindeman, a child survivor from the Netherlands, speaks of the importance of all people learning from the Holocaust.
clip, message to the future, male, child survivor, jewish survivor / Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Henry Golde remembers arriving at Theresienstadt (Terezín) and was shocked at how beautiful it seemed. Later on he found out how it was all a façade orchestrated for the Red Cross.
/ Wednesday, August 7, 2013
On August 8, 1940, before the Nazis entered Romania, the government started to restrict Romanian Jews from employment and education, which later turned into the Romanization of Jewish businesses. Bellina Aronovich remembers the anti-Semitism and violence against Jews had even started the year before, in 1939.
clip, female, jewish survivor, romania, anti-semitism, romanization / Thursday, August 8, 2013
Dave Lux survived the Holocaust as a child because of Nicholas Winton, who orchestrated the Czech Kindertransport, saving hundreds of Jewish children by transporting them to England. Lux remembers leaving his parents and thinking he’s going on a field trip.
clip, male, jewish survivor, kindertransport, Nicholas Winton / Friday, August 9, 2013
August was the last month of the famous Eichmann Trial in 1961. Margrit Wreschner Rustow talks about her sister being one of the witnesses in the Eichmann trial and that she could not participate because she was working but she watched the trial on TV.
clip, female, jewish survivor, eichmann, trial / Monday, August 12, 2013
Abram Kolski speaks of the Treblinka II-Death Camp uprising that took place on Aug 2, 1943, in Poland. He explains how the prisoners organized the revolt. Many prisoners were able to escape successfully from the camp as a result of the uprising. He was one of them.
clip, male, jewish survivor, treblinka, uprising, escape / Monday, August 12, 2013
Madame Yong talks about the 1937 mass murder in Nanjing, China and describes the losses in her family. She remembers the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese soldiers. Madame Yong explains why her family was unable to flee the area prior to the killing.
female, nanjing survivor, subtitled, chinese / Monday, August 12, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 10/28/1935City of Birth: Lwów, PolandGhetto(s): LwówCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Kristin Keren, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 2/24/1920City of Birth: Berlin, GermanyCountry of Interview: U.S.A
/ Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Milton Belfer remembers when his parents were arrested and his father's beard was forcibly shaved.
GAM / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz on the last time she saw her mother.
GAM / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: MaleBorn: 12/12/1930City of Birth: Vienna, AustriaCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Peter Braunfeld, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Gender: FemaleBorn: 3/4/1926City of Birth: Bilky, CzechoslovakiaGhetto(s): Berehovo, CzechoslovakiaCamp(s): Auschwitz (Poland : Concentration Camp); Lübberstedt (Germany : Concentration Camp)Other Experiences: Displaced persons campsCountry of Interview: U.S.A
Mollie Stauber, POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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POH, pyramid of hate / Tuesday, August 13, 2013
In August 1942 was the start of deportation of Jews from Croatia to concentration camps. Edmund Berger remembers when the Germans started to control the Croatian government and implemented restrictions against Jews and eventually the killings of young Jewish men.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Edmund Berger, déportation, croatia / Thursday, August 15, 2013
Irene Shapiro remembers being deported from Bialystok Ghetto to a camp. She speaks of her experience in the train on the way to Treblinka and Majdanek.
bialystok, ghetto, poland, female, jewish survivor, clip, liquidation, déportation / Friday, August 16, 2013
Belinna Aronovich remembers the liberation of her hometown, Husi, when the Soviet armed forces invaded Romania in 1944. She describes her reaction to the retreat of the German army as well as her own feelings upon seeing Soviet soldiers occupy her town.
clip, female, jewish survivor, liberation, romania, Belinna Aronovich / Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Marthe Cohn-Hoffnung remembers the liberation of Paris, France, in 1944, where she was living under false identity. She especially recalls the emotional response on the part of the French people upon seeing the French 2nd armored division, led by General Charles de Gaulle, march into Paris first. The United States armed forces followed shortly thereafter.
clip, liberation, Paris, female, Marthe Cohn-Hoffnung, jewish survivor / Friday, August 23, 2013
March 25, 2010: This session covers four presentations by faculty who have integrated the Institute’s testimonies into their courses in disciplines ranging from French and Italian, Didactics, Communication Studies, and Religious Studies. This session is moderated by Carolyn Ellis, Professor of Communications and Sociology, University of South Florida.
jjf, conference, panel, discussion, presentation, academic / Monday, August 26, 2013
March 25, 2010: This plenary session follows up on earlier breakout sessions that addressed issues related to how context, teaching methodologies, and teaching objectives differ based on course discipline. This session is moderated by Mark Baker (Associate Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia). One representative from each of the four groups reports on:
jjf, conference, panel, lecture, discussion, presentation, academic / Monday, August 26, 2013
March 25, 2010: Since the Institute’s testimonies were given around 50 years after the events described, researchers must confront issues of memory and reliability. In this session moderated by Andrea Pető (Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Central European University), Robert Rozett, (Director of Yad Vashem Libraries) addresses problems that revolve around memory and reliability. He asks whether testimonies and memoirs bring us closer than other kinds of historical documents to understanding what people went through.
jjf, conference, academic, lecture, panel, presentation, discussion / Monday, August 26, 2013
March 26, 2010: Audio-visual testimonies of traumatic historical events arouse profound emotions in their viewers. The pedagogical questions raised in this session focuses on the appropriateness and/or usefulness of emotionality in teaching about the Holocaust.
jjf, conference, discussion, lecture, presentation, academic, panel / Monday, August 26, 2013