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Hilda describes the living conditions in the Uherský Brod ghetto in Czechoslovakia. After four years in the ghetto, she and her family were deported to Theresienstadt.
clip / Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Angelica explains why she feels it is important for people to stay informed and involved in social activism in order to promote tolerance.
clip / Thursday, June 29, 2017
Holocaust survivor Max Buchbinder gives his final memories and pays tribute to his deceased family members at the end of his testimony.
clip / Thursday, June 29, 2017
Rachel discusses the importance of respecting others and accepting all people.
clip / Thursday, June 29, 2017
Marta describes the pain of giving up her beloved dog and how it led to giving up more, including her education.
clip / Thursday, July 20, 2017
Holcoaust survivors describe how education continued among the Jews of Hagibor right up until the deportations began.
clip / Thursday, July 27, 2017
Ernest begins his testimony by sharing a story about his father that has affected him his whole life.
clip / Monday, July 31, 2017
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
Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor Georg Citrom talks about attempts to escape and what it took to survive in a concentration camp.
clip / Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg explains why he feels it is so important for him to tell his story.
clip / Monday, September 11, 2017
Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg desribes how he was separated from his sisters at Plaszow concentration camp, and the guilt he has always felt for how it happened.
clip / Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Evgeniia Fizdel was born in 1923 in Odessa, then Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (today Odesa, Ukraine). She lived with her parents in Odessa when in August 1937 her father, Adol’f Fizdel, was arrested as a “German spy” and sent to a Soviet concentration camp. In 1940, he was released from the camp. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Evgeniia evacuated to Ufa, a city in the Urals, where she continued her medical training. In 1944, she was drafted into the Soviet army and as a military doctor and participated in the liberation of Poland and Germany.
clip / Thursday, September 14, 2017
Elena Zavadskaiia was born in 1925 in Mogilev-Podol’skii, then USSR (today Mohyliv-Podil’skii, Ukraine). Her parents, Evgenii and Konstantsiia Zavadskiii, were ethnic Poles, and because of their nationality in 1937 they became potential targets of order #00447. On November 1, 1937, her father was arrested. Soon after, her mother, Konstantsiia, was told that Evgenii had been sentenced to “ten years of corrective labor camps without the right of correspondence”—a Soviet euphemism for a sentence of execution by shooting.
clip / Thursday, September 14, 2017
Cambodian Genocide survivor Saoran Latour explains how she came to realize that her husband had died. She first suspected it after having a dream.
clip / Thursday, September 14, 2017
Historian and filmmaker Christian Delage (Institut D’Histoire Du Temps Présent, Paris) gave a public lecture at the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research focusing on analysis of different forms of testimony — in war crimes trials, oral history repositories, and documentary - and his recent project collecting interviews about the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris.
presentation, presentations, discussion, lecture, cagr / Friday, September 15, 2017
Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich and his younger brother fled Poland to hide in Hungary. Jona describes his fear of being discovered by police and the sense of responsibility he felt to protect his brother.
clip / Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Armenian Genocide survivor Agnes Dombalian describes how a Turkish gendarme helped Agnes and her family escape from a death march but then kept them as slaves in his own house.
clip / Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Landing a job at UNESCO was a godsend for Jewish Holocaust survivor Andras Dallos, whose family had been stuck in Hungary, where Jewish persecution remained intense after World War II. The post not only enabled the family to resettle in Islamabad, Pakistan, but also provided financial stability, a pathway for his children to enroll in British universities, and ultimately paved the way for the family to immigrate to the United States.
clip, unesco, jewish survivor, male / Thursday, October 12, 2017
Holocaust survivor Alicia Appleman-Jurman says children should be protected no matter what, since they are often the first victims of genocide.
clip / Thursday, October 19, 2017
Holocaust survivor Alicia Appleman-Jurman reads a passage from her memoir, Alicia: My Story.
clip / Thursday, October 19, 2017
Holocaust survivor Olga Levy Drucker describes the Kindertransport and how she became part of it.
clip / Thursday, October 19, 2017
Holocaust survivor Lucille Eichengreen describes how her former work in the concentration camp led to the arrest of several SS officers.
clip / Thursday, October 19, 2017
Holocaust survivor Robert Fisch explains what he wants people to take away from his illustrated book on the Holocaust.
clip / Thursday, October 19, 2017

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