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100 Days to Inspire Respect
Kitty Fischer recounts her time in Auschwitz-II Birkenau when as a young girl she encounters for the first time a gay male prisoner who will turn out to save her life.
jewish survivor, female, homosexual, rescue, auschwitz / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Thanks to the quick response of a homosexual prisoner at the Oranienburg-Heinkelwerke labor camp (a subcamp of Sachsenhausen), Douglas Fox escaped from a line of transferred prisoners who were unknowingly being given a lethal injection upon their arrival.
jewish survivor, male, Sachsenhausen, oranienburg, homosexual / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Tibor Pivko remembers when the Nazis destroyed the Czechoslovakian town of Lidice in retaliation for the assassination of high ranking Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, by Czech and British resistance soldiers.
clip, jewish survivor, Tibor Pivko, male, Reinhard Heydrich assassination / Thursday, May 28, 2015
Faigie Libman describes the roll call procedures in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto located in Lithuania. She remember being terrified every time she would see the cruel Gestapo sergeant.
clip, female, jewish survivor, kovno ghetto, lithuania, Faigie Libman / Friday, May 29, 2015
Anita Ekstein remembers Soviet troops occupying her home town in Synowódzko Wyzne, Poland (now Ukraine), from 1939-1941. She states her life was not drastically altered by their presence. However, the Soviet troops eventually retreated as German forces closed in, and at this time, Anita and her family were forced into hiding.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Ukraine, anita eckstein, hiding / Friday, May 29, 2015
Martin Weiss describes how his neighbors did nothing to help his Jewish family during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1944.
clip, male, jewish survivor, mistreatment, Martin Weiss, bystander / Monday, June 1, 2015
Floyd Dade explains the racial segregation of battalions during World War II. He also describes his relations with white soldiers on the battlefield.
clip, male, liberator, floyd dade, civil rights, discrimination, racsim, segregation / Monday, June 1, 2015
Dr. Gerard Chailand provides historical background on how the Armenians’ placement in the Turkish land played an important role in the the genocide.
clip, male, scholar, Armenian Genocide, politics, gerard chailand / Monday, June 1, 2015
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.
clip, female, armenian surivor, iwitness, Alice Shipley, deportations / Monday, June 8, 2015
Ruth Brand recalls an anti-Semitic experience as a young girl in her native country of Romania.
clip, female, jewish survivor, romania, ruth brand, culture, arts, discrimination, antiSemitism / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Henrietta Altman remembers the liquidation of the Bedzin ghetto in Poland in August 1943.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Bedzin ghetto, liquidation, poland, Henrietta Altman / Tuesday, June 9, 2015
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.
clip, video, iwitness, IWitness Video Challenge 2015, winning video / Thursday, June 11, 2015
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.
subtitled, gay, homosexual, jewish survivor, Gad Beck, male / Monday, June 15, 2015
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.
Rosenstrasse, Rosenstraße, résistance, Gad Beck, Fabrikaktion, male / Monday, June 15, 2015
Martin Aaron reflects on the importance of sharing his experience of the Holocaust even though it is very difficult.
clip, male, jewish survivor, testimony, giving testimon, martin aaron / Monday, June 15, 2015
Henry Joseph describes the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg and then the later deporations of Jews in 1941.
clip, male, jewish survivor, Henry Joseph, depotations, Luxembourg / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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.
clip, male, rwanda survivor, Kizito Kalima, refugee / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rena bernstein, movement, post liberation, Italy, antiSemitism / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Daisy Biro describes life in Budapest during WWII and how grateful she is that her entire immediate family survived.
clip, female, jewish survivor, daisy biro, budapest, family, feelings / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Armenian Genocide survivor Siranoush Boyajian describes her family’s life before deportation, followed by the painful, frightening transition out of such a peaceful life.
clip, female, armenian survivor, boyajian siranoush / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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.
clip, male, jewish survivor, occupation of Paris, military invasion Leo Abrami, antiSemitism / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Margarete Weil recalls when her entire family was deported from Hamburg Germany to Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia in 1941.
clip, female, jewish survivor, deporation, Margarete Weil, Theresienstadt / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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.
clip, female, jewish survivor, rose toren, poland, hiding, aid providing, family / Wednesday, June 17, 2015
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