Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Gender: Male
DOB: September 3, 1926
City of birth: Peiskretscham
Country of birth: Germany
Camps: Boussac (France : Concentration Camp)
Went into hiding: Yes
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Nora Snyder is a senior International Relations and Middle East studies double major and USC Shoah Foundation intern. She has worked as a research intern since her sophomore year, after attending the Problems Without Passports trip to Cambodia. She has also participated in the trip to Rwanda and recently became president of the Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association (SFISA).
When I tell my fellow USC students that I’m the president of an organization called SFISA, it’s usually safe to assume that 90% of them have no idea what it is.
It’s not the most elegant of acronyms and we acknowledge this. Our club’s full name – the Shoah Foundation Institute Student Association – is equally as unwieldy but at least it’s descriptive, and that’s something, right?
But even if they’ve heard of our less than stellar name, they still might not know who we are or what we do. So let me take this moment to enlighten you.
Helena Jonas Rosenzweig reflects on how generous her parents were to those in need. She remembers when her father was deported from the Krakow (Cracow) ghetto in Poland to a concentration camp and how his deportation affected her mother.
On the heels of USC Shoah Foundation’s new partnership with the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall to collect and preserve testimony of Nanjing Massacre survivors, the educational platform Facing History and Ourselves signed an agreement to integrate three of those testimonies into its own educational materials.
Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Gender: Male
DOB: March 25, 1917
City of birth: Bremen
Country of birth: Germany
Ghettos: No
Went into hiding: No
Fled Nazi-occupied Territory: Yes
Irene Klass reflects on the horrible living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto. She remembers her family would sing together in the evening for entertainment since they didn’t have any radio or newspapers available.
USC Shoah Foundation is excited to announce the upcoming launch of the tablet-compatible version of its award-winning educational website IWitness.
Jewish Holocaust Survivor
Robert Behr describes how the events of Kristallnacht shook his family's belief in a civil Germany.
Gender: Male
DOB: March 1, 1922
City of birth: Berlin
Country of birth: Germany
Ghettos: Theresienstadt (Czechoslovakia)
Camps: Zossen-Wulkow bei Trebnitz (Germany : Concentration Camp)