USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen Smith along with guest speakers, Kim Feinberg, USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant in South Africa and Founder and CEO of the Tomorrow Trust, and Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda, address the importance of using testimony in education from a global perspective.
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USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director, Stephen Smith along with guest speakers, Kim Feinberg, USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant in South Africa and Founder and CEO of the Tomorrow Trust, and Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda, address the importance of using testimony in education from a global perspective.
Zuzana Růžičková se narodila roku 1927 v Plzni. Po absolutoriu tamního gymnázia byla odvlečena do ghetta Terezín, odkud byla dále deportována do tábora smrti v Osvětimi - Birkenau. Osvobozena byla v koncentračním táboře Bergen - Belsen. Po válce vystudovala hru na klavír a cembalo, a stala se světově uznávanou interpretkou a profesorkou hudby.
Zuzana Růžičková vzpomíná na poválečný návrat z koncentračních táborů domů, do Plzně.
Zuzana Růžičková se narodila roku 1927 v Plzni. Po absolutoriu tamního gymnázia byla odvlečena do ghetta Terezín, odkud byla dále deportována do tábora smrti v Osvětimi - Birkenau. Osvobozena byla v koncentračním táboře Bergen - Belsen. Po válce vystudovala hru na klavír a cembalo, a stala se světově uznávanou interpretkou a profesorkou hudby.
Produced by James Moll, Broken Silence consists of five foreign-language films featuring testimonies from Argentina, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia and directed by distinguished filmmakers from each of these countries. The documentaries are unique in scope and construction: incorporating archival and modern-day footage, still photographs, original music, and drawing from the Institute’s testimonies.
Directed by James Moll and produced by June Beallor, The Academy Award®-winning The Last Days gives the personal accounts of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors, along with those of liberators, historians, and other eyewitnesses, to provide insight into the events of 1944 in Hungary and to address the themes of family, morality, forgiveness, tolerance, and rebuilding a life after the war.
Equipped with mini-DV cameras, the seven young people featured in Giving Voice document their surroundings at school and at home, with friends and family, and share their responses to viewing survivor testimony. In so doing, they reveal candid observations about intolerance and hatred.
by Mike Smith/James Goldberg/Dani Goffstein
Winners of the 2013 Viewer's Choice Award