Andrea Szőnyi tells the story of her father, who survived Auschwitz as a boy with the help of a man named Ernő Spiegel.
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USC Shoah Foundation’s director of education, Kori Street, will give two presentations this week in Montreal.
Tania Fink was only five years old when she and her family were captured by German soldiers and sent to Bergen Belsen concentration camp. She remembers what the camp looked like including the prisoner bunks and barbed wire fencing that surrounded the camp.
Helen Freibrun decided to tell her story with the hope of preventing the Holocaust from happening again.
The new Museum of the History of the Polish Jews in Warsaw is now offering educational programming for students that uses the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
Norbert Bikales remembers the day he was excluded from attending a non-Jewish German school in Berlin, Germany, shortly after the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in November 1938. He reflects on how this event changed his life.
Vladka Meed remembers how children were smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto. Some parents even left their babies on the steps of churches in order for them to be saved.
Jewish Survivor
Esther talks about her lack of awareness of wartime political events while hiding in Italy. She describes her liberation by members of the Jewish Brigade. Esther speaks of her struggle with identity which ensued after liberation from living in both hiding and under a false name.
The University of Toronto now has access to the Visual History Archive. Over 2,800 testimonies are from survivors living in Toronto and other parts of Canada.
The 10-part Echoes and Reflections series continues with Lesson 9: Perpetrators, Collaborators and Bystanders