Charlotte talks about Althea Jenkins, the woman who taught her to speak English in Providence, Rhode Island. Althea was a great teacher and loved Charlotte and her family.

Enrico discusses June 10, 1940, the day Italy declared war on Britain and France. That day, the Germans swept the city to take the Jews from their homes. He was able to escape hours before he was to be caught. 

The grand prize winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge, by Yu Jing Chen, Alana Chandler and Natalia Wang of Walter Payton College Preparatory, Chicago. The project inspires students to illustrate and share the various traits that make up their identities.

Second place winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge. By Acadia Grantham

Third place winner of the 2017 IWitness Video Challenge. By Shayna Kantor

Jewish survivor Harry Rosenbach shares a story about what he did with one of his most prized posessions while he was attempting to flee Germany as a refugee.

Henry explains how difficult it was to survive in a new country a young refugee.

Lily Schwarzschild describes helping Holocaust survivors rehabilitate at a displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany.

Zdenka describes First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to the Fort Ontario refugee camp and what she did to ensure that all the children in the camp got their education.

Holocaust survivor Sir Frank Lowy speaks about the causes that are important to him.

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.

Angelica explains why she feels it is important for people to stay informed and involved in social activism in order to promote tolerance.

Holocaust survivor Max Buchbinder gives his final memories and pays tribute to his deceased family members at the end of his testimony.

Rachel discusses the importance of respecting others and accepting all people.

Marta describes the pain of giving up her beloved dog and how it led to giving up more, including her education.

Holcoaust survivors describe how education continued among the Jews of Hagibor right up until the deportations began.

Ernest begins his testimony by sharing a story about his father that has affected him his whole life.

Roma and Sinti survivor Ella Davis describes how she was punished for getting caught stealing potatoes at Auschwitz.

Gerson Adler recalls the Stürmer newspaper issued by the Nazi party that promulgated antisemitic stereotypes.

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.

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.

Margot talks about her friendship with the young son of a diplomat on her voyage from Germany to the United States.

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.

Hans describes the beginning of the Danish resistance movement to save Jews from the Nazis.

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.

Auschwitz and Buchenwald survivor Georg Citrom talks about attempts to escape and what it took to survive in a concentration camp.

Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg explains why he feels it is so important for him to tell his story.

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.

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.

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.