During the Holocaust, people went to great lengths to save precious photographs. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-22 | Explore some of the ways photos survived the Holocaust.
“Hulda and Tante Anna” | Written and read by Susan Warsinger United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-22 | Susan Warsinger, a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, reads an essay about the memories of her grandparents and great grandmother before the Holocaust. It was recorded in September 2022.
A friendship that transcended borders. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-18 | When Marianne Winter and Jane Bomberger became pen pals, they never imagined the impact their friendship would have.
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Josie Traum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-16 | In 1942, amid looming danger for Jews in Belgium, two women with the resistance movement pulled Josie Traum, screaming and crying, from her mother, Fanny. Before sending her only child with the women, Fanny caught one last glimpse of three-year-old Josie’s soft, blonde curls. She did not know if Josie would be safe hidden away in a secret location … or if she would ever see her daughter again. Watch to learn what happened next to Josie and her mother, and discover if they ever reunited after their painful goodbye. First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Nat Shaffir United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-16 | Five-year-old Nat Shaffir stood in shock as the local priest his family had known for years led Romanian soldiers to their doorstep in November 1942. The priest pointed to the family and made plain his betrayal: “These are Jews.” The soldiers gave Nat's family four hours to load a few belongings into a wagon, before forcing them to leave their farm and move to Iași—a city with strict anti-Jewish laws.Watch to learn how young Nat managed to obtain extra bread and kerosene for his family and kept a solemn promise to his father to protect his mother and sisters.Hear Holocaust survivor Nat Shaffir’s experiences in his own words recorded on August 16, 2023. First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
Daring Teachers Who Made a Difference United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-10 | Surrounded by starvation and death, children in the Łódź ghetto had a hard time imagining their future. But Jewish headmistress Stella Rein fostered an atmosphere for students to learn and grow. Stella’s devotion never wavered—even after the school closed. As American students return to school, join us to honor teachers who nurtured the minds and spirits of Jewish children during the Holocaust—some at great personal risk. Guest Gretchen Skidmore, Director of Education Initiatives, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Host Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Echoes of Memory: Reflections and Testimonies Written and Read by Holocaust Survivors United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-08-07 | Echoes of Memory provides survivors who volunteer at the Museum with a powerful outlet to share their experiences and memories—through their own writing. The Museum conducts guided writing workshops to strengthen the writers’ abilities to recount their experiences for the historical record. In these videos, survivors who have taken part in the workshop read their own essays.This is one more way that the Museum helps survivors—eyewitnesses to the Holocaust—to help new generations gain insight and understanding of Holocaust history from a deeply personal perspective.This program, originally inspired by the Leave-A-Legacy Writing Workshops developed by the Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study, has been facilitated since 2001 by Dr. Margaret Peterson. The writer’s workshop model she has employed prioritizes the voice and authority of each writer and allows the participants to support each other in telling his or her own story of survival.
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Rae Goldfarb United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-26 | Eleven-year-old Rae Goldfarb held her breath, hidden from view in a double wall, as neighbors looted her family home and bickered over who would take a pot or a spoon.Months earlier, Rae’s life had changed dramatically, as the Nazis marched into her hometown in Poland. Then, after months of living in fear in the ghetto and eight days in hiding, Rae managed to avoid being killed in a massacre of Jews and escape. Watch to learn how Rae and her mother spent the next two years on the run—outmaneuvering Nazis and eventually joining up with partisan resistance fighters in the forest.Hear Holocaust survivor Rae Goldfarb’s experiences in her own words recorded on July 26, 2023. First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Emanuel (Manny) Mandel United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-21 | Emanuel (Manny) Mandel: The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on December 14, 2022. It features Holocaust survivor Manny Mandel, who was born in 1936 in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in Budapest, Hungary. Manny was chosen for a special exchange in which the Nazis traded his life and those of other Hungarian Jews for money and war supplies (the “Kasztner Train”). He survived internment at Bergen-Belsen before finding refuge in Switzerland and immigrating to Mandatory Palestine. Learn more about Manny: ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/emanuel-manny-mandel
Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Arye Ephrath United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-21 | The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on November 16, 2022. It features Holocaust survivor Arye Ephrath, who was born in the Nazi German client state of Slovakia in 1942. His family avoided deportation for a number of years before going into hiding in Šišov, an isolated village in western Slovakia, in 1944. Arye spent the rest of the war hiding with a local shepherd and his family and pretending to be a girl to avoid suspicion, while his parents were hidden by a different family in a hole beneath a barn floor.Learn more about Arye: ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/arye-ephrath
Stay Connected to this history. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-13 | Watch the full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=3DHP-rjV1O8&list=PLWQC3P4psZP6Mh45xyYa2QepIMgkKD4BA&index=27
Stay connected to this history. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-13 | Watch the full series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWQC3P4psZP6Mh45xyYa2QepIMgkKD4BA
Stay connected to this history. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-07-13 | Watch the full series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWQC3P4psZP6Mh45xyYa2QepIMgkKD4BA
Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The ID Tag United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-30 | After Israel Hilsenrath and his wife, Annie, immigrated to the United States from Germany, they were desperate to locate and bring to America their older children, Susi and Joseph. After Kristallnacht, Israel had paid a smuggler to take Susi and Joseph to France, where they thought they would be safe. After Germany invaded France, the children lost touch with their parents.Israel worked relentlessly to find his children and reunite the family. Through the help of US-based aid organizations, the children were located in France, and Susi and Joseph set sail for New York in September 1941. Their parents and younger brother, Ernest, were waiting for them.The family settled in Washington, DC, and Susi, now Susan Warsinger, is a volunteer at our Museum.
Living under Threat: Civilians across Burma United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-26 | A year ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the official finding that the Burmese military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya. In 2021, that same military seized power in a coup and since then has cracked down on civilians across the country. Those who razed Rohingya villages and raped and murdered civilians have not been held accountable. The situation is now perilous for communities across Burma as the military doubles down on repressive tactics. How can the international community mitigate the risks civilians face, prevent future mass atrocities, and promote justice? This discussion brought together Burmese civil society leaders and senior international policymakers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Panel Myra Dahgaypaw, Senior Partnership Officer for International Justice and Accountability, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Wai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director, Women’s Peace Network Gum San Nsang, President, Kachin Alliance Rosalinn Zahau, Advocacy Team Member, Chin Human Rights Organization Moderator Andrea Gittleman, Policy Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Introduction Naomi Kikoler, Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Remarks Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Henry Weil United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-21 | Henry Weil heard drums and marching well before catching sight of the German troops thundering down the street in front of his apartment in 1938 Vienna. At first, young Henry thought this was an occasion for celebration, but then, he turned from the window and saw his mother crying.Over the next year, the Weils were forced from their apartment, while Henry’s father struggled to secure paperwork to get the family out of Vienna.Watch to learn how Henry and his parents managed to outrun mounting danger for Jews in Europe and evade German U-boats while crossing the Atlantic.Hear Holocaust survivor Henry Weil’s experiences in his own words recorded on June 21, 2023. First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
Preserving Holocaust History through Oral Histories and Film United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-15 | This June 11th program explored the Museum’s ongoing efforts to preserve, protect, and expand its unparalleled collection of Holocaust evidence. Hear how the Museum’s collection of materials, documents, and artifacts serves as a resource for Holocaust survivors, families of victims, teachers, scholars, filmmakers, and others wishing to discover more about the fate of Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis and their collaborators.ModeratorJaime Monllor, International Outreach Officer, The David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumPresentersJames Gilmore, Oral History Curator, Curatorial Acquisitions and Reference, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumLeslie Swift, Special Advisor for Time-Based Media, Archival and Curatorial Affairs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Preserving Holocaust History through Artifacts and Research United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-15 | This June 4th program explored the Museum’s research services and ongoing efforts to preserve, safeguard, and expand its unparalleled collection of Holocaust evidence. Learn how the Museum’s collection of materials, documents, and artifacts serves as a resource for Holocaust survivors, families of victims, teachers, scholars, filmmakers, and others wishing to discover more about the fate of Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis and their collaborators.ModeratorColleen McFarland Rademaker, Chief Archivist, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumPresentersKassandra LaPrade Seuthe, Curator, Curatorial Acquisitions and Reference, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDr. Diane Afoumado, Chief, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A Jewish Boy Survives in Hiding: Not Far from Anne Franks Annex United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-12 | Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later discovered. His parents were told nothing about his caretakers or his location in order to help keep him safe.Only after the war did Leo realize that the loving couple who had raised him for years were not his biological parents. He later learned just how many of the Dutch families nearby knew about the young Jewish boy in hiding and chose to protect him. GuestLeo S. Ullman, Holocaust SurvivorHostDr. Rebecca Erbelding, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“Coincidences of Life” | Written and Read by Marcel Drimer United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-01 | Marcel Drimer, a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, reads an essay he wrote about surviving an Aktion, or a massacre, in his town of Drohobycz, which was part of Soviet Ukraine in 1941. It was recorded in September 2022. Read Marcel’s bio.The essay was written in a guided writing workshop for survivors of the Holocaust called Echoes of Memory.
“Freedom in Holysov” | Written and Read by Ruth Cohen United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-01 | Description: Ruth Cohen, a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, reads an essay she wrote about her experience at a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia and her liberation. It was recorded in September 2022. Read Ruth’s bio: ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/ruth-cohen.The essay was written in a guided writing workshop for survivors of the Holocaust called Echoes of Memory: ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies/writing-workshop
“Letter to a World War II Veteran” | Written and Read by Albert Garih United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-01 | Albert Garih, a volunteer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, reads an essay about liberation in Paris, France. It was recorded in September 2022.The essay was written in a guided writing workshop for survivors of the Holocaust called Echoes of Memory.
Pride Month: Defying the Nazi Campaign to Control Sexuality United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-06-01 | Berlin was known as the gay capital of the world until Nazis began terrorizing LGBTQ+ people and shut down the Eldorado Club in 1933.But love persisted in spite of Nazi persecution. Repeated arrests and beatings couldn’t crush the bond between Jewish dancer Margot Holzmann Liu and her partner, Marta Halusa. The inhumane conditions at the Ravensbrück concentration camp didn’t prevent prisoners Nelly Mousset-Vos and Nadine Hwang from beginning their lifelong romance. Join us as we commemorate Pride Month with their legacies of resilience and rebellion during Nazi rule.
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Peter Feigl United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-24 | As a teenager in 1944, Peter Feigl could see the French-Swiss border—a mere 100 yards away—from his spot in the woods. But he would have to get past armed guards, barking dogs, and two barbed wire fences before reaching safety in Switzerland.Despite being baptized as Catholic, Peter had been on the run for years—first with his parents and then alone. He moved from one place to another, trying to stay one step ahead of the Nazis, often keeping his identity hidden.Hear Holocaust survivor Peter Feigl’s experiences in his own words recorded on May 24, 2023. First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
A Dangerous Blessing Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Holocaust United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-12 | Two months pregnant, Priska Löwenbein clung to her husband inside the railcar. In a last act of hope, they named their baby before arriving at Auschwitz. Once there, Priska managed to hide her growing belly, while Nazi officials sent other obviously pregnant women and mothers with young children directly to their deaths in the gas chambers.During the Holocaust, pregnancy and having small children decreased the already slim chance of survival for Jewish women. Watch to meet Hana Berger Moran, Priska's miracle baby, born just before liberation.GuestsDr. Lindsay MacNeill, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDr. Hana Berger Moran, Holocaust survivor and Priska Löwenbein’s daughterHostDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Teaching Exclusion in Nazi Germany and the US: Antisemitism and Racist Ideology in the Classroom United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-11 | 2023 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual LectureAfter Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor in January 1933, the new Nazi government began an effort to completely reorder public and private life in Germany. The Nazi regime quickly targeted German universities—among the most elite in the world at the time—for restructuring according to Nazi principles. These forces, along with increasing antisemitism under Nazi rule, transformed everyday life at German universities, from the curriculum that was taught, the instructors that the university employed, and the type of community that students sought to build. During this same period, Indian boarding schools in the United States (in existence since 1819) thrived on principles that also defined if–and how–Native American children could be part of American society. Using a curriculum that sought to violently “civilize” and “assimilate” these children, these schools, too, drew upon racist ideology. While these policies had very different outcomes, they were both based on shared ideas of “racial” hierarchy and national belonging. This discussion explored the role of the educational systems and their underlying ideology in Nazi Germany and the United States, as they each sought to create a specific exclusionary national identity during the 1920s through the 1940s.SpeakersDr. Margaret D. Jacobs, Charles Mach Professor of History; Director, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–LincolnDr. Adam Knowles, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of ZurichModeratorDr. Hollie Mackey, member, Northern Cheyenne nation; Associate Professor of Education, North Dakota State University; and Associate Director of Graduate Student Development, University Council for Educational AdministrationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum co-presented this program April 7, 2023, at Western Washington University with The Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity; the university’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences; and its Tribal Relations Office.Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff of Baltimore, Maryland, were active philanthropists in the United States and abroad, focusing especially on Jewish learning and scholarship, music, the arts, and humanitarian causes. Their children, Eleanor Katz and Harvey M. Meyerhoff, member and chairman emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, have endowed this lecture.The mission of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center, part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry, so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Mandel Center or the Museum.
Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Suitcase United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-10 | When Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Elisabeth Blind was about eight years old. In the following two years, persecution against Jews became more and more extreme. Elisabeth and her mother, Schoontje Visser, had to be ready to move at a moment’s notice. Elisabeth used this suitcase when they went into hiding, living under false identities with assistance from the Dutch resistance.But life in the shadows was far from easy. Elisabeth experienced violence in a store when trying to buy milk, witnessed her aunt and teenage cousin being rounded up for deportation, and suffered from hunger.When Elisabeth donated artifacts from that time to the Museum in 2004, she was reluctant to talk about her own experiences. She preferred to focus on her family members who did not survive the Holocaust and initially planned only to donate photos of them to preserve their memory: her uncle Levi Visser; her baby cousin, Mozes, and his mother, Esther Swaab Franshman; her aunt Betsy Visser Swaab; and her grandparents, Benjamin and Henriette Visser. She had forgotten about the suitcase, but when her husband (also a Holocaust survivor) found it in their garage, she agreed to donate it as well.
Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure: Jewish Refugees in Iran and India 2023 Ina Levine Annual Lecture United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-09 | Examine the ambivalent, paradoxical, and diverse experiences, emotions, and memories of Jews who found refuge from National Socialism and the Holocaust in India and Iran after 1933. Always shadowed by the emerging European catastrophe, uprooted Jews were precariously privileged as white Europeans in non-western, colonial, or semi-colonial societies. An extensive collection of family correspondence and memorabilia—as well as archival, literary, visual, and oral history sources—illuminate refugees’ everyday lives. The materials also reveal the related, changing contexts of interwar fascination and contact with “the Orient,” global war against fascism, anti-colonial independence movements, and gradual revelations about the destruction of the European world they had escaped. Opening remarks Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Speaker Dr. Atina Grossmann, Ina Levine Invitational Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and Professor of History, The Cooper Union, New York City Moderator Dr. Lisa Leff, Director, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center’s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-05 | Undeniable truth: truth is a crayon case.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-05 | Undeniable truth: truth is an I.D. card.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-04 | Undeniable truth: truth is a drawing.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-04 | Undeniable truth: truth is a letter.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-03 | Undeniable truth: truth is a doll.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-03 | Undeniable truth: truth is a letter.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-02 | Undeniable truth: truth is a child's boots.
One Holocaust survivors story - the undeniable truth. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-02 | Undeniable truth: truth is a diary.
Anne Frank: Her World and Her Diary United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-05-01 | Anne Frank was one of six million Jewish victims murdered during the Holocaust. Anne's diary, written during her two years in hiding with her family in Amsterdam, remains one of the world's most widely read works of nonfiction. This short film places Anne Frank’s life and words within the wider historical context of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum designed it for classroom use.
Belfer Conference Promo 2023 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-25 | Designed to support accurate, meaningful teaching about the Holocaust, the Belfer National Conference for Educators is the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s flagship event for secondary school educators across the country. This free, virtual conference invites participants to engage with current historical research and instructional best practices.
National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-20 | The US Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust, during which we remember the six million Jews who were murdered. Since 1982, the Museum has organized and led the national Days of Remembrance ceremony with Holocaust survivors, Members of Congress, White House officials, the diplomatic corps, and community leaders. As we lead the nation in honoring the survivors, paying tribute to the rescuers, and celebrating the liberators, we are reminded of the power of their history to inspire all of us to confront antisemitism, all forms of group-targeted hate, and genocide. Comments on this program are turned off due to the solemn nature of the Days of Remembrance ceremony.
Gretel: el sueño de una atleta olímpica United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-19 | La atleta judía alemana Gretel Bergmann estaba en posición de ganar una medalla de oro en las Olimpíadas de 1936 en Berlín. En las pruebas clasificatorias que se celebraron dos meses antes, había igualado el récord de salto de altura de las atletas alemanas con 1 metro y 60 centímetros. Sin embargo, el control nazi de todos los aspectos de la vida alemana se extendía también a los deportes. Esto puso en peligro la oportunidad de Gretel de competir en las Olimpíadas de Berlín.
Franz: la súplica de un profesor United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-19 | El profesor judío Dr. Franz Goldberger estaba desesperado por escapar de la persecución nazi en Viena, Austria, a finales de la década de 1930, así que escribió cartas a desconocidos en Estados Unidos, buscando a alguien que le sirviera de patrocinador económico para poder inmigrar. Una de las cartas de Franz llegó a Helen Roseland, empleada de correos en Eagle Grove, Iowa. Aunque no conocía a Franz, Helen decidió ayudarle.
Marianne y Jane: la historia de unas amigas por correspondencia United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-19 | Marianne Winter, de Viena, y Jane Bomberger, de Pennsylvania, habían sido amigas por correspondencia desde hacía varios años cuando los nazis tomaron el control de Austria en 1938. La familia de Marianne quería emigrar a Estados Unidos, pero necesitaban que un estadounidense los patrocinara económicamente. Marianne le preguntó a Jane si conocía a alguien que pudiera aportar el apoyo económico. La respuesta de Jane fue toda una sorpresa.
Tony: el testimonio de un soldado United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-19 | A Tony Acevedo, médico del ejército estadounidense, lo capturaron en enero de 1945 y lo trasladaron a un campo alemán de prisioneros de guerra. Ahí, él y sus compañeros fueron golpeados, torturados y obligados a hacer trabajos forzados. Tony registró todas las atrocidades y muertes que presenció en un diario secreto, con el fin de honrar a sus compañeros y mantener vivo su recuerdo.
Eleanor y Gilbert: la misión de una pareja United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-19 | Con gran riesgo personal, Gilbert y Eleanor Kraus, de Philadelphia, viajaron a la Viena controlada por los nazis para rescatar a 50 niños judíos en la primavera de 1939, pocos meses antes del comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A su llegada, se enfrentaron al desgarrador reto de decidir qué niños podrían soportar dejar a sus padres e inmigrar a Estados Unidos con extraños.
Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Frank Cohn United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-14 | The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on October 19, 2022. It featured Holocaust survivor Frank Cohn, who was born in 1925, in Breslau, Germany, where he experienced antisemitism following the enactment of a variety of anti-Jewish laws by the Nazi government. Frank came to the United States in 1938, just before Kristallnacht. He returned to Germany with the American military as a member of the 12th Army Group Intelligence Unit.Learn more about Frank: ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/frank-cohn
Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Accordion United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-10 | Hilde Anker could only take a few items when she fled Nazi Germany in June 1939. The 13-year-old made room for her accordion.Her parents sent Hilde and their other two daughters away on a Kindertransport, a rescue effort that brought thousands of refugee children from Nazi Germany to Great Britain.
Ethiopian Voices on Current Mass Atrocity Risks United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-03 | Members of the Amhara, Oromo, and Tigrayan communities and an international analyst discuss future mass atrocity risks in Ethiopia and community demands for justice during a conversation with the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide on March 28, 2023.In November 2022, the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front agreed to end a two-year-long civil war. Despite the significance of this peace deal, civilians still face a risk of mass atrocities that requires ongoing vigilance by the international community.From the beginning of the war, witnesses reported the intentional targeting of civilians, often along ethnic lines. According to the United Nations, civilians have been subjected to serious human rights violations that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. While the peace agreement has led to a significant decrease in violence by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and Tigrayan Defense Forces, civilians continue to suffer egregious human rights violations perpetrated by Eritrean and regional militia forces. There is a risk that violence will further increase in other areas of the country, particularly in the Oromia region. Today, survivors from various communities across Ethiopia are pressing for justice, yet formal accountability measures remain elusive. Speakers: Bserat Ghebremicael, Chief Marketing Officer, Omna Tigray Seenaa Jimjimo, Executive Director, Oromo Legacy Leadership and Advocacy Association Zelalem (Zola) Moges, International Lawyer William Davison, Ethiopia Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group Andrea Gittleman (moderator), Policy Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Defining an Unimaginable Crime: The Story of Raphael Lemkin United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-04-03 | Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jewish lawyer, escaped the Nazis but lost 49 members of his family in the Holocaust. He coined the word "genocide" in 1944 to describe the deliberate attempt to wipe out a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Lemkin devoted the last 15 years of his life to lobbying governments to recognize genocide as an international crime and changed the legal landscape. Despite his impact, he died alone and penniless in 1959. Learn about Lemkin's contributions in this discussion with a researcher and Museum historian, recorded on April 7, 2021 and rebroadcast on April 3, 2023.SpeakerDr. Bridget Conley, Research Director, World Peace Foundation, and Associate Research Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts UniversityModeratorDr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2023 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Joël Nommick United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-03-22 | Joël Nommick never got the chance to meet his father, who was arrested and deported in 1942. Only later would he piece together the story of his father’s imprisonment at Auschwitz and numerous other camps. Learn how Joël, his mother, and his two brothers—with their neighbors’ help—managed to stay alive in France while in constant danger of discovery.Hear Holocaust survivor Joël Nommick’s experiences in his own words recorded on March 22, 2023. First Person is a monthly hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
Ordinary Civilians, Extraordinary Acts: Syrian Responses to Mass Atrocities United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2023-03-20 | Twelve years after the start of the Syrian crisis, civilians continue to suffer mass atrocities. Areas of the country remain under attack by the Syrian government and its allies, and more than 100,000 people have been detained or disappeared. The devastating earthquake of early February 2023 struck people in Syria and Turkey who had previously fled mass atrocities. In the case of northwest Syria, the impact and aftermath of the earthquake placed an incredible burden on civil society actors to scramble to the rescue—the same groups who for years have rescued victims of mass atrocities. This event featured Syrian civil society leaders who are spearheading the charge to protect civilians and hold perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable. Experts discussed how Syrians, especially Syrian women, are responding to mass atrocities today, and how the world can best support them.Please email your questions to genocideprevention@ushmm.org. The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide would like to thank Alfred Münzer, Mayson Almisri, Celine Kassem, Senator Robert Menendez, Senator James Risch, Representative French Hill, Ethan Goldrich, Ambassador (Ret.) Stephen Rapp, and Natasha Hall for participating in this event.
