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Hungarian educators were enthusiastic about learning new methods for teaching with video testimony at USC Shoah Foundation’s first ITeach teacher education seminar last week.
iTeach, iTeach, hungary, Andrea Szőnyi, teaching with testimony for the 21st century / Thursday, March 6, 2014
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.
clip, female, Elizabeth Holtzman, war crimes trial participant, congresswoman / Friday, March 7, 2014
The winners of Student Voices 2014 were Syuzanna Petrosyan and Greg Irwin for their film Play for Your Life. Shirin Raban’s There is No Other Way received the viewer’s choice award and Rebecca Baugh’s Love, Noemi received an honorable mention.
/ Friday, March 7, 2014
George Weiss was seven years old when the Germans invaded his home country of Belgium. He reflects on the shame he felt when he was forced to wear the yellow star of David to school.
clip, male, jewish survivor, childhood, belgium, george weiss / Monday, March 10, 2014
Holocaust survivor testimonies from the Visual History Archive inspired heartfelt works of art, writing and film from students across America in Chapman University and The 1939 Society’s Holocaust Art & Writing Contest.
chapman, george weiss, jenna leventhal, contest, testimony / Monday, March 10, 2014
Margaret Lambert recalls her experience as an athlete on the Olympic team in Nazi Germany in 1936. Lambert's testimony is featured in the IWitness Activity, 1936 Olympics: Race, Politics & Civil Rights.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Berlin, olympics, margaret lambert / Tuesday, March 11, 2014
A class of 10th graders at High Tech High North County in San Marcos, Calif., experienced IWitness for the first time in a pilot of the newest IWitness activity "1936 Olympics: Race, Politics and Civil Rights."
iwitness, IWitness activity, pilot / Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Edith Hamberger remembers the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by the German Armed Forces, which occurred on the night of March 12 through March 13, 1938.
clip, female, jewish survivor, anschluss, Austria, Edith Hamberger / Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Students and teachers from all over the Bay Area will attend a workshop about USC Shoah Foundation testimony and IWitness at Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) of San Francisco’s annual Day of Learning on Sun., March 23.
/ Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Sonia Warshawski describes her life after she and her husband migrated to the United States. She also recalls how she educated her children about her experiences in the Holocaust.
clip, Sonia Warshawski, jewish survivor, family / Thursday, March 13, 2014
Following a screening of Finding Hillywood, a documentary about the birth of the Rwandan film industry, Rwandan film pioneer Eric Kabera spoke about making movies 20 years after the genocide in a Q&A hosted by the USC Shoah Foundation.
eric kabera, film / Thursday, March 13, 2014
His Excellency Ilan Mor, Israeli Ambassador to Hungary, observed a lesson taught by a Teaching with Testimony in the 21st Century graduate at Berzsenyi Dániel High School, a USC Shoah Foundation partner school in Budapest, Hungary.
budapest, Israel, Andrea Szőnyi, teaching with testimony for the 21st century / Thursday, March 13, 2014
Agnes Kun worked in the hospital at Auschwitz II-Birkenau as an assistant nurse. She recalls Josef Mengele, particularly his presence at the hospital.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Anna Heilman remembers helping her sister, Ester Wajcblum, smuggle gunpowder to aid in the Sonderkommando uprising at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Ester Wajcblum was hanged publicly in the camp on January 1, 1945.
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auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Monday, March 17, 2014
Dennis Urstein was a Kanada Kommando in Auschwitz who collected inmates' belongings they were forced to leave behind. He reflects on witnessing the arrivals of new inmates to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.See more clips on Auschwitz
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary, clip / Monday, March 17, 2014
Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt remembers painting a mural based on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on a wall in one of the children's barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Ellis Lewin describes the horror of arriving at Auschwitz; he remembers stepping out of the cattle car and witnessing barking dogs, chaos, separation of women from men, and beatings by Nazis.
clip, auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Erna Anolik recalls the intake procedures at Auschwitz, including shaving off her hair, undressing in front of soldiers, and only being given a grey dress and wooden shoes.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Eugene Zinn recounts how he was forced to dig up mass graves because of the stench and his attempt to burn the bodies with wood and kerosene.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Hellmuth Szprycer recalls the arrival to Auschwitz II-Birkenau from Theresienstadt. He reflects on the chaos at the camp once he stepped out of the cattle car.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Herschel Balter reflects on how important music was to him while imprisoned in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He sings the same lullaby he used to sing while in the camp.
auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Itka Zygmuntowicz reflects on the camp orchestra within Auschwitz that was forced to play music while inmates were sent to the crematoria.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Kitty Hart-Moxon recalls being able to see Crematorium 4 from her barrack window at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Linda Breder was a Kanada Kommando in Auschwitz who collected inmates' belongings they were forced to leave behind. Linda remembers how a Nazi soldier disciplined inmates complaining of thirst. Years later Breder testified at that soldier’s war crime trial.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Renée Firestone remembers arriving at Auschwitz II-Birkenau with her sister, whom she tried desperately to hang onto so they would not be separated.See more clips on Auschwitz
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Monday, March 17, 2014
Ruth Brand recalls the horrible intake procedures at Auschwitz including shaving her head, undressing in front of soldiers and only being given one dress.
auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, 70th Anniversary / Friday, March 14, 2014
Survivors describe their memories of Auschwitz in the following selection of English-language clips from the Visual History Archive. A total of 11,780 testimonies in the Visual History Archive mention Auschwitz; these testimonies were conducted in 26 languages and 45 countries.
70th Anniversary, auschwitz, survivors / Friday, March 14, 2014
Pearl Delikat remembers celebrating the Jewish holiday, Purim, with her family.
clip, female, jewish survivor, purim, Pearl Delikat / Friday, March 14, 2014
The first-ever Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival will show two USC Shoah Foundation documentaries in its Spotlight on Human Loss March 16 and 17 in New York City.
film / Friday, March 14, 2014