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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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

Alter Abramowicz describes anti-Semitic attitudes in Poland leading up to the Holocaust.

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.

Stella Kolin describes the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and conditions inside the bunker where she and 50 others hid during the fighting.

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.

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.

A Rwanda Tutsi Genocide survivor and a Holocaust survivor each describe experiences they had with sterotyping.

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.

Sam Kadorian remembers the separation and killings of Armenian families during the 1915 genocide.    

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Dachau camp liberator Barton Nagata talks about his exposure to racism in the segregated South of the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Former congresswoman and war crimes trial participant Elizabeth Holtzman remembers working with Julian Bond during the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960’s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.