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Paula Lebovics speaks on the liberation of Auschwitz as a child and remembers feeling cared for, the first time in her life.
a70, auschwitz, Paula Lebovics, female, jewish survivor / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Jewish survivor Paula Lebovics, Jewish survivor Howard Chandler, Jewish survivor Philip Helbling, Political prisoner Kaz Wolff-Zdzienicki, and Sinti and Roma survivor Julia Lentini recall their experiences of the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp complex in January 1945. Otari Amaglobeli of the Soviet Armed forces describes his involvement in the liberation of the camp complex on Jan. 27, 1945. This testimony clip reel was produced in partnership with The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.
Liberation of Auschwitz, reel / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Howard Chandler was enlisted by a Kapo guard to steal items from the train after new arrivals had been dropped off. He describes what happens to him when other guards catch him with contraband.
a70, auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, Howard Chandler / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Martin Baranek describes how a group of Sinti Roma inmates were cleared out of the barracks to make room for the group of Jewish inmates of which he was a part.
a70, auschwitz, male, jewish survivor, Roma Sinti / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Miriam Ziegler recalls how she reunited with other Holocaust survivors after she immigrated to Toronto. She also reflects on the famous photo of herself and other the children of Auschwitz photographed by Russian liberators.
a70, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Kitty Hart-Moxon recalls being able to see Crematorium 4 from her barracks window at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
a70, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor / Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch remembers when she was selected to be in the Auschwitz camp orchestra and when the orchestra would play for the SS.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, camp orchestra, auschwitz / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Edgar Wildfeuer of Argentina speaks of his forced labor assignment in carpentry for the Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke (DAW) Corporation in Auschwitz.
clip, auschwitz, a70, male / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Shaul Hazan, who worked as a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, describes what he witnessed at the crematoriums. He details not only the gruesome cleanup, but also the process the Nazis used to administer the gas.
auschwitz, a70, male, jewish survivor, sonderkommando / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Shortly after the Germans fled Auschwitz, well-meaning Russian liberators provided food to children. Tragically, some would die from eating too quickly. Yehudit Sadeh was suffering from dysentery, which proved fortuitous because it prevented her from eating. She describes how a doctor took pains to nurse her back to health until she could walk again and catch a transport back to Czechoslovakia.
a70, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, liberation / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Jewish survivor Ina Rabner of Brazil remembers the selection process she and the other women prisoners underwent upon their arrival to Auschwitz. She also recalls how, amidst the terrifying process, she saved her sister from execution, hiding her sibling’s graying hair from Mengele.
a70, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, Josef Mengele, selection / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Jewish survivor Nissin Soriano of Argentina recalls the intake procedures he experienced in Auschwitz. He describes the shaving, numbering, and disinfecting processes.
a70, auschwitz, male, jewish survivor / Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Auschwitz survivor Zuzana Weiszova describes how the fatigued Russian liberators entered the death camp and, after deciphering the Germans were gone, asked survivors if they had any vodka. The Russians cooked a modest feast and shared it with all.
a70, auschwitz, female, jewish survivor, subtitled / Thursday, January 22, 2015
Dr. Jared McBride, 2014-2015 recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research's Douglas and Margee Greenberg Research Fellowship discusses how oral history and testimony can be integrated with existing archival documents to recreate a micro-level history of the Holocaust in western Ukraine.
presentation / Thursday, January 29, 2015
Sidney Glucksman remembers his experience in the Dachau concentration camp including seeing the crematorium. Sidney also recalls how he confronted local bystanders after liberation.
clip, male, jewish survivor, sidney glucksman, dachau / Monday, February 2, 2015
Leo Egan remembers returning to his hometown of Lodz, Poland after liberation in 1945 and finding out his home was occupied by a Soviet general.
clip, male, jewish survivor, leo egan, lodz, poland, returning home / Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Rose Schindler remembers the restriction on Jewish people including travel restrictions, property seizures, curfews and even the roundups of Jewish men for forced labor in her hometown in Czechoslovakia.
clip, female, rose schindler, jewish survivor, czechslovakia, antijewish measures / Friday, February 6, 2015
Eva Slonim describes life in the experimental barracks where she and other children were imprisoned in Auschwitz. She recalls how all the children would share memories of family and dream of their homes. This testimony clip is featured in the new IWitness activity Information Quest: Eva Slonim.
clip, female, jewish survivor, iwitness, eva slonim, experiments, auschwitz / Monday, February 9, 2015
Marcel Rutagarama describes how he was nearly buried alive after being severely injured and escaped from his perpetrators during the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide.
clip, male, Rwandan Genocide, tutsi survivor, Marcel Rutagarama / Wednesday, February 11, 2015
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.”
/ Thursday, February 12, 2015
Kurt Messerschmidt describes the aftermath and fear after the Kristallnacht Pogrom - an organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria that occurred on November 9–10, 1938. Kristallnacht is also known as the November Pogrom, "Night of Broken Glass," and "Crystal Night." This testimony clip is featured in the IWitness activity, Information Quest: Kurt Messerschmidt.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Kurt Messerschmidt, kristallnacht, iwitness, antiSemitism / Thursday, February 12, 2015
Peter Braunfeld recounts experiencing anti-Semitism as a child in Vienna after Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. This testimony clip is featured in the new IWitness activity, A thing of the Past? Anti-Semitism Past and Present.
GAM / Friday, February 13, 2015
Xia Shuqin recalls the Nanjing massacre on Dec. 13, 1937 and how she hid from Japanese soldiers during the invasion.
clip, female, nanjing survivor, Nanjing Massacre, Shuqin Xia, student voices / Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Andrzej Siemiatkowski speaks in Polish about the medical experiements and forced labor he experienced in the Auschwitz camp complex.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Andrzej Siemiatkowski, auschwitz, polish / Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Rose Kaplovitz reflects on the end of WWII and liberation - featured in the IWitness activity Found Poetry – A Language Arts Lesson.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Rose Kaplovitz, iwitness, liberation, found poetry / Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Dachau camp liberator Paul Parks recalls experiencing racial discrimination in the United States after returning home from fighting in WWII.
clip, male, liberator, black history month, paul parks, racism / Friday, February 20, 2015
Martin Aaron speaks on trying to reconnect with any family members who had survived the Holocaust after he was liberated from Bergen-Belsen. He recalls how his search led him to family in America.
clip, male, jewish survivor, martin aaron, faming reunion / Monday, February 23, 2015
Kurt Wehle, one of the post-WWII leaders of Czech Jewry, describes the postwar climate in Prague up to the Communist putsch of 1948, when he had to escape from Czechoslovakia. This testimony clip is featured in the new exhibit, “Shattered Hopes: Postwar Czechoslovakia as a Crossroads of Jewish Life,” at the Jewish Museum in Prague.
clip, male, jewish, Kurt Wehle, czech, postwar / Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Herbert Friedman discusses his mother’s decision to take in three Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany. Friedman attributes his family’s decision because of their faith and his mother’s prominent role within their synagogue New Haven, Connecticut.
clip, male, aid provider, jewish, Herbert Friedman, jewish refugees, United States / Wednesday, February 25, 2015