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Roma and Sinti survivor Ella Davis describes how she was punished for getting caught stealing potatoes at Auschwitz.
clip / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Gerson Adler recalls the Stürmer newspaper issued by the Nazi party that promulgated antisemitic stereotypes.
propaganda, Stürmer, antiSemitism, stereotype / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
In this clip, Henry Sinason, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, recalls how widespread Nazi antisemitic propaganda was all over the city where he lived.
propaganda, antiSemitism / Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Holocaust survivor Alexander Van Kollem recalls when stationed as an American soldier in Virginia during the Korean War his first encounter with institutionalized racism as he attempted to take a public bus.
tcv, clip, racism, jim crow, segregation, Racial Segregation / Monday, August 14, 2017
Margot talks about her friendship with the young son of a diplomat on her voyage from Germany to the United States.
clip / Thursday, August 24, 2017
On August 24, 2017, scholars from Latin America presented their initial findings on their use of the Visual History Archive and mapped out potential avenues of inquiry focusing on Holocaust survivors who eventually settled in Latin America. This presentation is one of the outcomes of a "scholar in residence" fellowship that brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to collaborate on a research project at USC for Interdisciplinary Research Week.
presentation, cagr / Monday, August 28, 2017
Hans describes the beginning of the Danish resistance movement to save Jews from the Nazis.
clip / Tuesday, August 29, 2017
This clip describes a dire situation in which the Loebenberg family found themselves while trying to find a safe haven in Cuba. Total strangers decided to help the Loebenbergs.
clip / Thursday, August 31, 2017