Herschel describes sitting in his camp barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau and the cultural actions taken by the men imprisoned with him in the death camp.
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100 Days to Inspire Respect
Jewish Holocaust survivor Clara Isaacman explains how she and her Christian friends tried to be inclusive of each other's different holidays.
Helen talks about the overcrowded housing conditions she and her family had in Ward Road Heim—a makeshift refugee camp established in Shanghai, China, during the war.
The USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research invites proposals for its 2017-2018 Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching that will provide summer support for one member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty to integrate testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive (VHA) into a new or existing course. The fellowship is open to all disciplinary and methodological approaches and will be awarded on a competitive basis to the most interesting project.
The annual conference brings together experts in the field to discuss new research and advances in oral history and its use in a variety of contexts.
Henri Deutsch, a jewish survivor, who along with his family was rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, recalls the Portuguese diplomat. Sousa Mendes, against orders from the Portuguese government, issued an estimated 30,000 travel visas to people escaping Nazi-occupied France in 1940.
Over the course of 2016, testimony from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive contributed to a wide array of published texts, from studies about the methodology of the Institute’s interviewing and cataloguing, to wholly other subjects that pulled from the VHA to back a defined thesis.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Lea discusses her experiences joining the Boyle Heights community of Los Angeles when she immigrated to the United States after the Holocaust.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Three survivors of the Holocaust share memories about their experiences with police during the Holocaust.
100 Days to Inspire Respect
Tom, both a Holocaust survivor and US Congressman, explains how his role in the community of the United States has evolved.