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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
Kurt Moses reflects on the issue of hate and returning to Germany with his family after the war. Although it was difficult to speak to Germans from his generation, he remembers feeling more comfortable speaking and interacting with the German youth at the time.
/ Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Eugene Zinn sings a song that he and other prisoners made up about Auschwitz while they were imprisoned in the camp.
/ Thursday, September 3, 2015
Eva Adams fondly remembers the important role that music played in her daily life growing up in Budapest, Hungary before the war..
clip, female, jewish survivor, music, Eva Adams / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Sara Shapiro reflects on the hardships of daily life in the ghetto and later on about surviving with very little food and water while hiding with her mother in a barn.
clip, female, jewish survivor, sara shapiro, hiding / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Mark Webber reflects on life after the Holocaust and meeting his wife Ruth Webber, a survivor of Auschwitz. Then both Mark and Ruth describe their proudest achievement raising, their children in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, male, jewish survivor, mark webber, detroit, life after the holocaust / Thursday, September 3, 2015
Ibolya (Szalai) Grossman remembers being mistreated by neighborhood friends and acquaintances on the day she and and her infant were deported to the Budapest Ghetto.
clip, female, jewish survivor, bystander, Ibolya Grossman, budapest / Friday, September 4, 2015
Paula Lebovics describes her family's desperate search for visas to emigrate from Germany after the war. She remembers being surprised at how easily she acquired an American visa and was able to begin a new life in Detroit, Michigan.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, movement, post war, detroit / Friday, September 4, 2015
After leaving her hometown in Poland to escape Nazi persecution, Ruth remembers observing an atypical Rosh Hashanah in the synagogue of a small Polish town.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Rosh Hashanah, religion, ruth Barr-Shway / Monday, September 14, 2015
Anita remembers the incredibly difficult period she spent as a displaced person after being liberated from the Bergen-Belsen camp.
clip, female, jewish survivor, anita lasker wallfisch, refugee, dp camps / Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Kurt Messerschmidt remembers the role of bystanders and explains the importance of standing up to injustice.
clip, Kurt Messerschmidt, jewish survivor, bystander / Thursday, September 17, 2015
Edward Adler remembers being imprisoned for going on a date with a non-Jewish girl, which violated the Nuremberg Laws, a set of discriminatory, anti-Jewish measures enforced by the Nazi regime in 1935.
clip, jewish survivor, male, antiSemitism, anti-Jewish, edward adler / Thursday, September 17, 2015
After surviving the Holocaust, Abraham Amaterstein became an arts and culture journalist at a newspaper in Chisinau, Moldova. He wrote a review of a concert by the famed composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Shostakovich was so pleased with the review that he invited Amaterstein to lunch.
/ Thursday, September 17, 2015
Eva Foti was one of the few people to make it out alive from the mass shootings on the Danube River in Budapest. She recounts her miraculous survival and a stranger's kind gesture.
/ Monday, September 21, 2015
Janina Gering talks about the similarities between antisemitism in Europe and racism in South Africa, and considers how both have shaped her as a person.
/ Thursday, September 24, 2015
Rini Sampath USC Student Body President shares how she is inspiring action in her community. #BeginsWithMe
rini Sampath / Thursday, September 24, 2015
Paula Lebovics remembers arriving to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival she was asked to sing for everyone in her block. She was nervous, but felt obliged to do so. Luckily for Paula, everyone loved her voice and afterwards she was given special privileges. She remembers getting extra rations of food that she would take back to her mother.
clip, female, jewish survivor, Paula Lebovics, DOR15 / Friday, September 25, 2015
Natalia Smith was featured in the film One Day in Auschwitz with Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon. Natalia shares how the experience has inspired her to be an advocate.
Begins With Me / Friday, September 25, 2015
Teofil, a political prisoner, describes living in Block 10 in Auschwitz and looking through a window and witnessing a family, with two children, being shot and killed at the Black Wall. He says it was extremely difficult for him to witness.
/ Monday, September 28, 2015
Norweigan political prisoner Reidar Dittmann describes the various ways he and other prisoners wrote and performed music in Buchenwald.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Holocaust survivor George Papanek encourages people to "think globally, act locally," and work together to create a better world.
/ Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Three different video clips from Roman Kent's tesitmony including life before, during and after the Holocaust.
clip, male jewish survivor, roman kent / Thursday, October 1, 2015
Ralph Friedman recalls the songs he used to hear in the Vilnius ghetto, including one about a resistance leader who turned himself in to the commandant.
/ Friday, October 2, 2015