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The Value of Memory: Using Information Quest in my Classroom
... are completing an Information Quest about Holocaust survivor Paula Lebovics. This activity is part of the Auschwitz: Past is ... series of activities on IWitness, and Paula was the survivor who traveled with our group to Poland last year. I am excited for my ...
deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 4:25pm
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USC Shoah Foundation Conducts Final 27 Interviews for Nanjing Massacre Collection
... a coma when they arrived and died four days later. Another survivor, Madame Zhang Cuiying, was unable to speak anymore so her two ... In a nice bit of scheduling, he ended up being the 100th survivor interviewed for the Nanjing Massacre collection. The survivors ...
robin.migdol - 02/28/2017 - 8:59am
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Holocaust Scholar Yehuda Bauer Records Testimony for Visual History Archive
... following a conversation with Abba Kovner, a Holocaust survivor, poet and Zionist leader. Though Bauer said he was “scared” to ... point.” From then on, Bauer devoted his research to survivor experiences, policies pursued by American and European organizations ...
robin.migdol - 08/20/2015 - 9:21am
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New Dimensions in Testimony Proven to be Valuable Educational Tool
... high school students who engage with 83-year-old Buchenwald survivor Pinchas Gutter , the project's first of 12 subjects, experience a ... stronger in the student pilots, where students listened to a survivor in person and/or interacted with the New Dimensions in Testimony ...
josh.grossberg - 07/14/2016 - 10:58am
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IWitness Evaluation Report
... “feel their emotion,” “feel like I know the Holocaust survivor,” and “people I met.” As one student noted when testing the ... it goes past the computer screen and feels like she [survivor] is actually telling her story directly to me.” ...
robin.migdol - 10/23/2013 - 3:11pm
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#BeginsWithMe - Why I Support Teaching with Testimony
... father’s life that affected me the most. He truly was a “survivor." He survived the war running for his life through Russia, Siberian ... future and there is so much to learn from the over 53,000 survivor testimonies in the Visual History Archive . I am amazed by the ...
deanna.pitre - 08/26/2020 - 5:11pm
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Beyond Evil
... and a half million Hutu. Not long before I interviewed this survivor, he returned and came to see the woman. She said to me: “Why did he ... a Hutu, she felt she needed protection from him. * This survivor was part of the first of many training sessions my associate Laurie ...
robin.migdol - 09/02/2014 - 5:49pm
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An unforgettable trip to an unimaginable place
... we were honored to hear from Paula Lebovics , a child survivor of Auschwitz, who remembered ashes raining down from the crematoriums ... courage. There were many speakers that evening, but survivor Roman Kent ’s speech, for me was the most touching. Roman ...
deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 4:47pm
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A Lesson in Kindness
... be worthy of that flame. I committed myself to include survivor testimonies and empathy awareness into my teaching. My students and I ... believe in it. They’ve written poems. They’ve researched survivor testimony. They’ve put together a video.They’ve done all this to ...
deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 3:54pm
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Survivors' Voices
I participated in an event in April called Survivor Voices. We were six panelists from Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, two ... about myself and my own story. When, Laura Mc Millin, the survivor from the Cambodia Genocide spoke I was moved by a statement she made ...
deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 4:37pm