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Eugene Zinn sings a song that he and other prisoners made up about Auschwitz while they were imprisoned in the camp.
/ Thursday, September 3, 2015
Eva Adams fondly remembers the important role that music played in her daily life growing up in Budapest, Hungary before the war.. 
clip, female, jewish survivor, music, Eva Adams / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Sara Shapiro reflects on the hardships of daily life in the ghetto and later on about surviving with very little food and water while hiding with her mother in a barn.
clip, female, jewish survivor, sara shapiro, hiding / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Mark Webber reflects on life after the Holocaust and meeting his wife Ruth Webber, a survivor of Auschwitz. Then both Mark and Ruth describe their proudest achievement raising, their children in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, male, jewish survivor, mark webber, detroit, life after the holocaust / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Ibolya (Szalai) Grossman remembers being mistreated by neighborhood friends and acquaintances on the day she and and her infant were deported to the Budapest Ghetto.
clip, female, jewish survivor, bystander, Ibolya Grossman, budapest / Friday, September 4, 2015
Paula Lebovics describes her family's desperate search for visas to emigrate from Germany after the war. She remembers being surprised at how easily she acquired an American visa and was able to begin a new life in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, movement, post war, detroit / Friday, September 4, 2015
After leaving her hometown in Poland to escape Nazi persecution, Ruth remembers observing an atypical Rosh Hashanah in the synagogue of a small Polish town.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Rosh Hashanah, religion, ruth Barr-Shway / Monday, September 14, 2015
/ Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Anita remembers the incredibly difficult period she spent as a displaced person after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp. 
clip, female, jewish survivor, anita lasker wallfisch, refugee, dp camps / Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Kurt Messerschmidt remembers the role of bystanders and explains the importance of standing up to injustice.
clip, Kurt Messerschmidt, jewish survivor, bystander / Thursday, September 17, 2015
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. 
clip, jewish survivor, male, antiSemitism, anti-Jewish, edward adler / Thursday, September 17, 2015
After surviving the Holocaust, Abraham Amaterstein became an arts and culture journalist at a newspaper in Chisinau, Moldova. He wrote a review of a concert by the famed composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Shostakovich was so pleased with the review that he invited Amaterstein to lunch.
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015
Eva Foti was one of the few people to make it out alive from the mass shootings on the Danube River in Budapest. She recounts her miraculous survival and a stranger's kind gesture.
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
Janina Gering talks about the similarities between antisemitism in Europe and racism in South Africa, and considers how both have shaped her as a person.
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
Rini Sampath USC Student Body President shares how she is inspiring action in her community. #BeginsWithMe
rini Sampath / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Paula Lebovics remembers arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival she was asked to sing for everyone in her block. She was nervous, but felt obliged to do so. Luckily for Paula, everyone loved her voice and afterwards she was given special privileges. She remembers getting extra rations of food that she would take back to her mother.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, DOR15 / Friday, September 25, 2015
Natalia Smith was featured in the film One Day in Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon. Natalia shares how the experience has inspired her to be an advocate.
Begins With Me / Friday, September 25, 2015
Teofil, a political prisoner, describes living in Block 10 in Auschwitz and looking through a window and witnessing a family, with two children, being shot and killed at the Black Wall. He says it was extremely difficult for him to witness.
/ Monday, September 28, 2015
Norweigan political prisoner Reidar Dittmann describes the various ways he and other prisoners wrote and performed music in Buchenwald.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Holocaust survivor George Papanek encourages people to "think globally, act locally," and work together to create a better world.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Three different video clips from Roman Kent's tesitmony including life before, during and after the Holocaust.
clip, male jewish survivor, roman kent / Thursday, October 1, 2015
Ralph Friedman recalls the songs he used to hear in the Vilnius ghetto, including one about a resistance leader who turned himself in to the commandant.
/ Friday, October 2, 2015
Dans cet extrait, Jules Fainzang raconte la difficulté de tenir, moralement, au camp de Laurahütte, et le réconfort qu’apporta un soir, aux déportés, la musique d’un violoniste.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015
Robert Francès se souvient de la place de la musique dans le quotidien des déportés au camp de Monowitz.Robert Francès est né le 4 décembre 1919 à Bursa, en Turquie. Il est le fils d’Isaac et d’Allegra Francès. Il a une sœur. Isaac travaille dans l’industrie de la soie. Allegra, qui a fait ses études à Paris, est professeur de français et membre de l’Alliance israélite universelle.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015
Dans cet extrait Moshe Stiland évoque les activités culturelles organisées dans le camp de Gleiwitz.Moshe Stiland, né Stilman, a vu le jour le 20 octobre 1924 à Dabrowa Gornicza, en Pologne. Son père est grossiste en fruits. Sa mère tient un magasin de mode où l’on vend des chapeaux. Elle abandonne son travail pour aider son mari et s’occuper de ses quatre enfants, Moshe et ses trois sœurs.Moshe fréquente l’école communale ; puis, sa mère le met à l’école juive, en raison de l’antisémitisme ambiant. Moshe et ses sœurs sont membres de mouvements sionistes.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015
Dans cet extrait, Georges Casube raconte les activités théâtrales qui se déroulèrent au camp de Peiskretscham et auxquelles il participa.Georges Casube, né Kaszub, a vu le jour à Krosniewice, en Pologne, le 15 février 1917. Sa mère, Frida, fait de la broderie ; son père, Nathan, est tailleur. Georges a un petit frère, qui décède en bas âge.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015
Dans cet extrait, Francine Lorch interprète une chanson scout d’avant-guerre, qui était chantée au camp de Beaune-la-Rolande. Née Christophe, Francine Lorch voit le jour le 18 août 1933. Elle est la fille de Robert Christophe et de Marcelle Nordman. Elle grandit à Paris dans une famille bourgeoise, juive et non pratiquante. Son père est historien. Pendant la Drôle de guerre, la famille se réfugie à Nice. Après la défaite de la France, en juin 1940, elle remonte à Paris. Robert Christophe est fait prisonnier en Mayenne. Il est par la suite transféré en Allemagne.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015
Dans cet extrait, Bella Malamoud évoque les activités culturelles auxquelles elle participait au camp de Drancy.Née à Varsovie (Pologne), le 11 août 1926, Bella Malamoud, de son nom de jeune fille Kirman, est la fille de David Wolf Kirman et de Pessa Fajerstain. Elle a une sœur aînée, Anja, et une petite sœur, Léa.La famille quitte la Pologne vers 1936 pour s’installer à Saint-Ouen, en banlieue parisienne. Les parents de Bella travaillent à domicile où ils fabriquent des parapluies.
/ Monday, October 5, 2015

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