Martin Weiss describes how his neighbors did nothing to help his Jewish family during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1944.

Floyd Dade explains the racial segregation of battalions during World War II. He also describes his relations with white soldiers on the battlefield.

Dr. Gerard Chailand provides historical background on how the Armenians’ placement in the Turkish land played an important role in the the genocide.

Alice Shipley discusses the deportation of her family during the Armenian Genocide. This testimony clip is featured in the new IWitness activity, Information Quest – The Armenian Genocide.

Ruth Brand recalls an anti-Semitic experience as a young girl in her native country of Romania.

Henrietta Altman remembers the liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto in Poland in August 1943.

The 2015 IWitness Video Challenge winning video, “From, Your Friend :),” documents middle school students, Emma Heintz and Natalia Podstawka remarkable effort to make a difference at their school, Douglas Middle School in East Douglas, Mass., by distributing notecards with compliments and words of encouragement to all 415 students.

In this clip, Gad Beck recalls the day he ran in to tell his mother that he "had his first man" and her surprising reaction. It is a sweet story of family acceptance and support.

Gad Beck recalls how the Gentile women in Berlin, including his aunts, came en masse to Rosenstraße in order to protest for the release of the Jewish men detained by the Nazis for deportation to the concentration camps. Gad and his father were among the detainees arrested during the Fabrikaktion.

Martin Aaron reflects on the importance of sharing his experience of the Holocaust even though it is very difficult.

Henry Joseph describes the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg and then the later deporations of Jews in 1941.

June 20th is recognized by the United Nations as International Refugee Day to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world. Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, remembers the makeshift refugee camp in the region shortly after the genocide.

Rena Bernstein recalls life after liberation when her family migrated to Italy from Poland. Her father was a doctor at a polish orphanage and the family still experienced anti-Semitism.

Daisy Biro describes life in Budapest during WWII and how grateful she is that her entire immediate family survived.

Armenian Genocide survivor Siranoush Boyajian describes her family’s life before deportation, followed by the painful, frightening transition out of such a peaceful life.

Leo Abrami describes the atmosphere right before the Nazis invaded Paris in 1940. He also recalls an anti-Semitic experience as a child at summer camp before the Nazi occupation.

Margarete Weil recalls when her entire family was deported from Hamburg Germany to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia in 1941.

Rose Toren’s father told her to leave the family to go hide with a friend from school in Nazi occupied Poland. Rose recalls the night she fled to her friend’s house and evaded beatings by the Gestapo.