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.

When someone gives you a gift or does you a favor, what’s happening in your brain?

That’s what researchers from USC’s Department of Psychology and Brain and Creativity Institute have just discovered, with the help of testimony from the Visual History Archive. 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).

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.

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