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The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are each hosting presentations about USC Shoah Foundation, the Visual History Archive and its possibilities for research this week.
Esther talks about going to church very frequently so that she could learn all of the Christian prayers and convince others that she was Christian, not Jewish. When she was living with a Nazi family, they questioned whether or not she was really Christian and they had her recite prayers to prove her faith.
May 18, 2016
5 -6:30 p.m.
UC Irvine, Merage School Auditorium (SB1, First Floor, Room 1200)
Speaker: Stephen Smith, Executive Director, USC Shoah Foundation
As an educator who has used IWitness to teach various subjects, units and topics here are some tips to integrating testimony into any curriculum, including Science.
Reconceptualizing Nazi Camps: Changing Categories, Shifting Purposes, and Evolving Contexts
Dan Stone, PhD (Royal Holloway, University of London)
“Concentration Camps: A Global History”
Atina Grossmann, PhD (Cooper Union, New York)
“Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories of Displacement, Trauma, and Rescue in the Soviet Union, Iran, and India”
After his arrest in September 1942, Stefan Kosinski was incarcerated while awaiting his trial. In this clip, he recounts the conditions in the jail and his memory of seeing his mother out the window of his jail cell keeping vigil. She is also present during his trial before the Nazi court, which sentences Stefan to five years hard labor.
Foreign words in this clip:
- pedo (Polish): derogatory term for a gay person
- schwul (German): gay, homosexual
- Zuchthaus (German): penitentiary
Maria talks about her aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, who was painted by Gustav Kilmt in his “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.” Nazi soldiers confiscated the painting at the start of WWII and after the war, the Austrian State Gallery claimed the painting as its own. Years later, Altmann fought to get the painting back for her family and she went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004. Ultimately, it was decided that the painting be sold to the Neue Galerie in New York City, and is currently worth $135 million. This is a part of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Women’s History Month Clip series.