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These testimony segments focus on descriptions of home life, family events, religious observances, and education before the occurrence of genocide.

prewar, tcv / Saturday, May 4, 2013

Hiding

These testimony segments focus on physical concealment (as an individual or part of a family) to avoid ghettoization, incarceration, deporation, or other forms of persecution

hiding, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Ghettos

This theme focuses on how the Nazis forced large numbers of Jews into restricted housing areas, often enforced with walls, fences, and/or guard towers. Movement in and out of the ghettos was strictly controlled and violation was punishable by death.

ghetto, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Camps

"Concentration Camps" or "Labor Camps" were facilities in which people were incarcerated on the basis of their political and/or religious beliefs or ethnicity, usually without regard to due process.

camps, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Liberation

Liberation is typically characterized by the arrival of Allied forces. Interviewees tell of liberation from concentration camps, or during death marches, or may describe liberation upon emergence from hiding.

liberation, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Life After Genocide

These are accounts of life after genocide—including, but not limited to, experiences after liberation from captivity or emergence from hiding—and often includes a message for future generations.

post-war, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Loss of Family

These are survivors’ accounts of losing loved ones in the midst of genocide.

family loss, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Women and the Holocaust

A collection of clips featuring women speaking about their experiences during the Holocaust and that appears in the study guide "Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion," produced in partnership with the United Nations in 2011.

women, united nations, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Music

This set of clips from the Institute's archive showcases survivors before the camera performing music that helped sustain them during the Holocaust.

music, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Religious Holiday Observances

This theme focuses on the ways in which survivors observed Jewish holidays in the ghettos and camps.

religious, religion, holiday, observance, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

Love During the Holocaust

Clips of survivors recalling times in their lives during the Holocaust when they still managed to find love.

love, holocaust, tcv / Sunday, May 5, 2013

IWitness: Our online resource for educators and students

/ Tuesday, May 7, 2013