Dans cet extrait, Mala Zanger se souvient de la personnalité de Rubinstein, le « bouffon du ghetto », à Varsovie.Mala Drejzla Frydman est née le 6 octobre 1927 à Grodzisk Mazowiecki, près de Varsovie (Pologne). Son père, Chyl-Frischel, tient une épicerie en gros. Sa mère, Schaindla, s’occupe de Mala et de ses frères et sœurs, Sura-Luba, Aharon et Pinkus.En 1934, le père de Mala fait faillite. La famille s’installe à Varsovie. Chyl-Frischel travaille à mi-temps dans une synagogue et continue d’exercer des activités commerciales.

Dans cet extrait, Walter Spitzer raconte comment ses talents de dessinateur ont conduit la résistance à l’envoyer faire des croquis des atrocités collectionnées par Ilse Koch, la « chienne de Buchenwald ».Walter Spitzer est né le 14 juin 1927 à Cieszyn en Pologne (Haute-Silésie). Il a un frère aîné, Harry. Son père, Samuel, est fabricant de liqueur à Cieszyn. Sa mère, Margaret, est employée des chemins de fer. Peu pratiquante, la famille respecte les fêtes religieuses.

Dans cet extrait, Édouard Axelrad relate comment ses talents de dessinateurs lui ont permis d’améliorer son ordinaire au camp d’Auschwitz.

Dans cet extrait, Jean Gemähling raconte sa rencontre avec Varian Fry, organisateur d’une filière d’évasion, à Marseille, et décrit l’aide apportée par celui-ci aux intellectuels et artistes.Jean Gemähling est né le 19 novembre 1912 à Paris. Sa mère enseigne la littérature dans un lycée et son père est professeur de Droit. Après avoir terminé ses études à l’École nationale supérieure de Chimie et achevé son service militaire en Algérie, Jean travaille à la Compagnie sucrière de Paris.

L’édition 2015-2016 du Concours national de la Résistance et de la Déportation propose aux élèves des collèges et lycées de travailler sur le thème suivant : « Résister par l’art et la littérature ».

Pour la quatrième année, l'USC Shoah Foundation propose aux élèves et aux enseignants participant au Concours national de la Résistance et de la Déportation, une sélection de témoignages. Pour l'année 2015-2016, le thème choisi est "Résister par l'art et la littérature".

This is the fourth year USC Shoah Foundation has provided an exhibit of relevant testimony clips that students may use for research or incorporate into their projects.

Harry talks about the theater that he was a part of in the Skarzysko-Kamienna labor camp and sings a song he remembers being performed.

Brandeis University Professor Dawn Skorczewski examines the differences between the testimonies of two sonderkommando survivors, Dario Gabbai and his cousin Morris Venezia.

The research team of Glenn Fox, Jonas Kaplan, Hanna Damasio and Antonio Damasio has revealed its findings in the paper “Neural correlates of gratitude,” now published in the academic journal Frontiers in Psychology.

Tobi Abelsky recalls two times she and her sister were allowed to stay together after selections at Auschwitz. She and her sister remain grateful for one Nazi who said that because they were sisters, they should be together, and thus saved her sister's life.

Tsilah Zak"haym lived in the Naliboki Forest in Poland with the Bielski Partisans, a Jewish resistance group. She says that in the evenings the camp would sing songs together -- especially when they were hungry and during Jewish holidays.

Muscologist Matt Lawson recently submitted his PhD thesis, focussing on the music used in German depictions of the Holocaust on screen. His early research has been disseminated at conferences across the UK, and also at international events in Australia, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Germany and the USA. He completed his undergraduate honours degree in Music at Huddersfield in 2009, and his MA with distinction from the University of York (2012). He was also a postgraduate participant in a HEA collaborative project between Edge Hill University and the University of Roehampton.

When I commenced my PhD journey three years ago at Edge Hill University in northern England, I had little idea of where the journey would take me, both literally and figuratively.

Sandya Maulana’s presentation at the symposium is a chance to discuss an issue from his native Indonesia that has yet to be discussed even in Indonesia itself.

USC Shoah Foundation will return to China, where it has collected some of its newest testimonies, to participate in University of Southern California’s Global Conference 2015.

Holocaust survivor Edith Meyer, mother of NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer, gives her advice for future generations.

Auschwitz: The Past is Present helped Ingrid Alexovics feel connected to teachers all over the world who share her passion for Holocaust education. But it also reminded her how much work is still to be done.

Not everyone in Poland has made it to Warsaw to visit POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. But this summer, the museum came to them.

Nelly Cesana remembers happy times with her family in Warsaw before the war.

Aron Rabinovich describes how he helped guard the "Polizei," who had collaborated with the Nazis, after he was liberated and gave testimony about the crimes they had perpetrated against him and his family.

Robert J. Aumann remembers the phone call notifying him he won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2005. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the understanding of conflict through game-theory analysis at the University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Jack Adler remembers arriving to Ellis Island and decribes the first time he earned American currency.

A collection of clips featuring Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics speaking about her experiences before, during, and after World War II, including the conditions she had to undergo as a child at Auschwitz.

Au sens le plus basique et le plus littéral, un itinéraire signifie un déplacement d’un point à un autre. Ce déplacement peut être physique, comme cela fut le cas pour des milliers de personnes, avant, pendant et après l’Holocauste, mais il peut aussi être métaphorique, émotionnel, psychologique… Les événements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et l’Holocauste ont conduit les individus à emprunter différents types d’itinéraires, et leurs conséquences ont plongé le monde dans un abîme de réflexion, toujours actuel, autour du « plus jamais ça ».

Forty-eight testimony clips have been added to the popular “Watch” page on IWitness.

The conference included a night of films, an academic symposium and a concert, all exploring music as it has been used as a form of resistance to genocides throughout history.

Jehovah's Witness survivor Simone Maria Liebster describes her last night with her mother in a hotel before her mother had to leave her at a Jehovah's Witness re-education center in Germany. They prayed and sang together.

Joseph Horn describes the Auschwitz camp orchestra, which was made up of some of the best musicians in Europe. He distinctly remembers that the orchestra's concerts every Sunday were scheduled so the local townspeople could come into the camp after church and attend the concert.