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Herbert Holden describes Nicholas Winton's lifesaving efforts to bring 669 Czech children to Britain during the Holocaust, and how he called up a television program to reveal himself as one of the children Winton saved.
clip, Nicholas Winton, herbert holden / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Alice Masters recalls meeting Sir Nicholas for the first time in London at the 50th reunion of the Kindertransport children.
clip, Nicholas Winton, kindertransport, jewish survivor / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Susanne Pearson speaks about Sir Nicholas Winton's difficulties in transporting Jewish children to Britain before the war broke out.
kindertransport, Nicholas Winton, rescue, jewish survivor / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
100 Days to Inspire Respect Sir Nicholas Winton, responsible for organizing the Kindertransport that saved the lives of 669 Jewish children, passed away at the age of 106. Here is his message to the future.
Nicholas Winton, future message, clip, message to the future, rescuer, male, lcti, 100 days to inspire respect / Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Doris Lazarus is a docent at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, the first institution to pilot New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT), a collaboration between USC Shoah Foundation and USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), in partnership with concept developer Conscience Display. Doris reads a letter she wrote to Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter when he visited the museum in June 2015.
/ Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Armenian Genocide survivor, Suren Aprahamian recalls the thriving Armenian community in his village just outside Van and how the city’s population swelled with Armenians trying to escape the massacres that began in 1915.
clip, Armenian Genocide, armenian survivor, suren Aprahamian, daily life, discrimination / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Eva Slonim remembers her childhood, family and religious celebrations in pre-war Czechoslovakia.
clip, female, eva slonim, jewish survivor, daily life, family / Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Judith Becker describes how her brother was able to still attend a public high school because of his athleticism despite the implementation of the Nuremberg Laws. She also reflects on how the Nazi ideology was taught on a daily basis in German schools.
clip, judith becker, jewish survivor, antiSemitism, religious, discrimination, racism, education, education expulsion, nazi / Monday, July 13, 2015
Ludmila Page recalls how fellow female prisoners in Auschwitz practiced their religion by praying. She says how inspiring it was for these young women to have faith amongst such horror.  
clip, Ludmila Page, auschwitz, religion, faith, jewish survivor, schindler jew / Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Peter Cukor describes returning to his family home Hungary and reuniting with his father after being liberated from a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. He also recalls how he faced anti-Semitism even after liberation in 1945.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Peter Cukor, hungary, liberation, post genocide / Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Henny Bauer describes how Jews in Vienna were forced scrub the streets and Nazi officers’ homes. She explains her response to an SS officer when she was ordered to complete the discriminating task.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Austria, Vienna, Henny Bauer, discrimination / Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Gabriel Forrai remembers the anti-Jewish restrictions implemented in Budapest, Hungary including his family being forced to live a yellow star house, curfews and wearing a yellow star on his clothing.  
clip, male, Gabriel Forrai, jewish survivor, discrimination, yellow star houses, budapest / Monday, July 20, 2015
Siegmund Sollander reflects on life in the Shanghai ghetto, designated by Japanese authorities in Shanghai to house stateless Jewish refugees who fled Germany and German-occupied areas of Europe from 1937-1942.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Shangahi Ghetto, movement, Siegmund Sollander / Tuesday, July 21, 2015
George Auman escaped Nazi Germany in the late 1930’s and immigrated to the United States. He later joined the military and helped liberate Nordhausen concentration camp. Auman describes the importance of learning from the Holocaust and speaking about his experience.
clip, male, jewish survivor, george auman, future message / Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Abonyi and her husband immigrated to Texas from Hungary after WWII.  Zsuzsanna’s husband received a teaching position at a Texas university and she continues to reflect on her own career including a Ph.D
clip, jewish survivor, life after genocide, immirgation, Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Abonyi, United States, family / Thursday, July 23, 2015
Alter Abramowicz describes anti-Semitic attitudes in Poland leading up to the Holocaust.
clip, male, jeiwsh survivor, france, déportation, poland, discrimination, Alter Abramowicz / Thursday, July 23, 2015
Zvi Griliches describes his liberation on May 2, 1945. He and other prisoners were on a death march from Dachau when the SS guards abandoned them. American troops discovered them on the road a few hours later.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Zvi Griliches, Dachau liberation, dachau, death march / Friday, July 24, 2015
Stella Kolin describes the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and conditions inside the bunker where she and 50 others hid during the fighting.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Stella Kolin, résistance / Monday, July 27, 2015
Guatemalan survivor Jesús Tecú speaks about his parents going into town to take care of business in 1982, and never returning home. He later discovered that they were killed that day during the massacre Río Negro.
clip, male, Guatemalan Genocide, Jesús Tecú, massacre / Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Robert Wagemann remembers being a physically handicapped child during World War II. Doctors often preferred euthanizing children with physical disabilities rather than keep them alive. Robert describes how his mother helped him escaped a facility, saving his life.
clip, video, robert wagemann, disabled persons, discrimination / Thursday, July 30, 2015
A Rwanda Tutsi Genocide survivor and a Holocaust survivor each describe experiences they had with sterotyping.
clip, Rose Burizihiza, Lea Schabinski-Faranhof, sterotypes, discrimination / Friday, July 31, 2015