Celina Biniaz recalls facing Nazi Commandant Amon Goeth while working under the protection of Oskar Schindler at his munitions factory in Brünnlitz labor camp in 1944.
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For years, Celina Biniaz, one of the youngest people saved by Oskar Schindler, did not tell anyone – not even her children – that she was a Holocaust survivor. She feared no one could comprehend what she had been through, and she didn’t want to impose the trauma of her childhood upon her son and daughter.
Celina’s reluctance to speak ended in 1994. That year, director Steven Spielberg brought Oskar Schindler’s story to the screen with Schindler’s List. He established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which later became the USC Shoah Foundation.
Shaul Ladany was 8 years old when he was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He recalls suffering from starvation and seeing a tomato plant growing just out of reach.
Shaul Ladany, an 88-year-old world-record holding speed-walker, has defied death multiple times. As a small child, he survived the German occupation of Budapest and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Then, representing Israel in the 1972 Munich Olympics, he narrowly escaped the massacre that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes.
Robert Widerman Clary was among the first 100 Holocaust survivors interviewed for USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, and he conducted 75 interviews of other survivors. In his testimony, he talks about his instinct and talent for entertaining—honed while he was a child in Paris—saved and shaped his life.
Join us on April 15 at the Institute of Armenian Studies for an academic lecture on the Armenian Genocide and its related USC holdings by Institute Project Manager Manuk Avedikyan.
Dr. Alexandra Birch is a professional violinist and historian who is presently a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, and fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Advanced Genocide Studies. She also holds a BM, MM, and DMA from Arizona State University in violin performance. Her current project Sonic Terror: Music, Murder, and Migration in the USSR investigates the contemporaneous atrocities of the Holocaust and Gulag via recovered musical scores and soundscapes creating a humanizing look at incomprehensible violence.