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Holocaust survivor Suzanne Gross remembers when she had to wear the Yellow Star of David for the first time and the anti-Semitism that followed in 1942 France.
clip, jewish survivor, Suzanne Gross, female, france, discrimination, antiSemitism / Monday, August 3, 2015
Sam Kadorian remembers the separation and killings of Armenian families during the 1915 genocide.    
clip, Armenian Genocide, Sam Kadorian, deporation, killings / Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt talks about her arrival at Auschwitz from Terezín. She and the rest of the transport were treated differently from other prisoners; they did not have their heads shaved and they were given civilian clothes.
/ Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Jewish survivor Henri Weinzweig describes his three and a half years at a Catholic convent and orphanage in Levignac, France. The sisters allowed him to live there to protect him from the Nazis.
/ Thursday, August 6, 2015
Martin Becker fled Nazi Germany and immigrated to the United States where he later joined the Armed Forces. He speaks on his deployment to Japan including being stationed in Hiroshima only two weeks after US dropped the atomic bomb in August 1945.
clip, video, military invasion, atmoic bomb, hiroshima, Martin Becker, jewish survivor, liberator / Friday, August 7, 2015
Estelle Laughlin describes the influence of Dr. Janusz Korczak the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, a doctor, writer and educator who established a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw. Rather than accept offers of asylum for himself he died with his orphans at Treblinka. 
clip, female, jewish survivor, estelle laughlin, Janusz Korczak, aid giver / Monday, August 10, 2015
Dachau camp liberator Barton Nagata talks about his exposure to racism in the segregated South of the United States.
clip, male, liberator, segregation, discrimination, civil rights, Barton Nagata / Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Holocaust survivor George Brent was a violin prodigy as a child, but he thought his career was over when he endured physical torture during the Holocaust and injured his wrist. Years later, he was invited to perform in a concert with famed entertainer Maurice Chevalier, who gave him some much-needed encouragement onstage.
/ Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Helen describes her experiences as a laborer in Menden, Germany. She escaped scrutiny for being Jewish by lying to authorities about her ethnic background. She describes the immense fear that came throughout these experiences, always worrying about Nazi officers incriminating her.
/ Thursday, August 13, 2015
United States Armed Forces veteran Leonard Lubin fought on the western front and liberated concentration camps in Austria. After war ended in Europe he waited along with his comrades to be deployed to the Pacific. He describes hearing about the atomic bombing of Japan and that war had ended in WWII when Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945.
clip, male, liberator, Leonard Lubin, military invasion, V-JDay, VJDay, japan / Friday, August 14, 2015
Former congresswoman and war crimes trial participant Elizabeth Holtzman remembers working with Julian Bond during the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960’s.
clip, female, war crimes trial participant, Elizabeth Holtzman, Julian Bond, civil rights / Monday, August 17, 2015
Rita Berger describes what happened to her father and older brother during the Polenaktion, Oct. 27-30, 1938. The Polenaktion was the expulsion of 1,500 to 6,000 Jews from Berlin, who were then forced to go to Poland.
/ Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Jan Karski recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for risking his life in order to alert the world about the Holocaust. For World Humanitarian Day Karski speaks on the importance of standing up against intolerance.
clip, male, jan karski, aid provider, future message, world humantarian day / Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Armin T. Wegner was in the German Sanitary Corps and was posted to Eastern Turkey during WWI.  There he was witness to the genocide of the Armenian people. Seeing the devastating consequences of the deportations he documented the genocide in photographs, keeping meticulous notes at great personal risk.Wegner was arrested for his covert documentation, but was able to smuggle his photographs back to Germany. These photographs were later used in German Court as evidence that genocide had indeed taken place in Eastern Anatolia against the Armenian people.
clip, male, aid provider, eyewitness, Armin Wegner, Armenian Genocide / Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Esther Fiszman immigrated to Australia after the Holocaust and found the people she met there to be kind, helpful and accepting. There were very few Jewish people in her town but she never experienced any anti-Semitism there.
/ Thursday, August 20, 2015
Fay Aronowicz talks about the Poligon Massacre in Lithuania in October 1941, in which 8,000 Jews were murdered. A Lithuanian police officer allowed her to leave the site of the impending massacre, but her mother had to stay behind.
/ Friday, August 21, 2015
Testimony clip of Norma Dimitry was subtitled into Czech, for a presentation in Czech Republic on teaching about the refugee crisis with testimony.
/ Monday, August 24, 2015
Harold Brand describes how his family was one of the last to be deported to the Tarnów  ghetto in Poland. He continues to describe the last time he saw his parents and sister.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Harold Brand, movement, déportation, family seperation / Monday, August 24, 2015
Aaron Rosenfeld describes how he and others survived the attacks on Kyiv, Ukraine, by sharing food and resources with local farmers.
/ Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Nechama Ariel describes the different schools for Jewish children and Christian children in her town in Poland before the war. She explains the different subjects that were taught in each school.
clip, female, nechama ariel, education / Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Jona Goldrich discusses the roots of his charitable personality and giving. Growing up in Lviv, Poland, his family was considered well-off because they were able to put food on the table. His family would invite neighbors to eat dinner at their house on Saturday nights as tradition.
/ Friday, August 28, 2015