Date Pegs » Holocaust Remembrance Day

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This is the story of three men who served aboard the Exodus 1947, a Jewish refugee ship that tried to run thousands of holocaust survivors past the...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2004
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 8
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NEVER AGAIN: A HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: is a one hour special that includes Larry Josephson's recent exclusive interview with Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust s...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 10
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5 Survivors of the Holocaust share thier stories

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:03
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Caption: Lynnette Freeman
Three short plays. In Two Jewish Men in Their Seventies, Jerry Stiller and Bob Dishy play two holocaust survivors berating a new holocaust museum. ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:03
Caption: Shlomo Breznitz
The Remarkable Life of Shlomo Breznitz …this week on Prime Time Radio.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
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The most important anti-fascist and protest song of the 20th century

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 38:37
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Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John K. MacLellan
Jay Ipson is the original survivor. He and his mother and father escaped selections in the the Kuvna ghetto in Lithuania. When Nazis tightened the ...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 27:52
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Legal scholar William Schabas, director of the Irish Human Rights Centre and author of "Genocide in International Law: The Crime of Crimes", discus...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2007
  • Length: 26:00
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Fiction and a memoir by child survivors.

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 30:01
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Martin Weiss discusses his deportation in May of 1944 from the ghetto in Munkacs, then part of Hungary, and his arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:45
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In December 1944, as the Soviet Army approached the slave labor camp in Poland where Leon was imprisoned, the Germans evacuated Leon to the Buchenw...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
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Erika Eckstut discusses the difficulties and dangers of life in the Czernowitz ghetto in what was then Romania (but today is western Ukraine). Erik...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:08
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Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener discusses his experience on Kristallnacht, known as the “Night of Broken Glass”, on November 9-10, 1938. Rabbi Wiener was arr...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
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Marcel Drimer discusses narrowly escaping an "aktion" in Drohobycz, Poland. Marcel, his sister, and mother hid in a wheat field while a German “akt...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:07
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Inge Katzenstein discusses fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and finding refuge along with her family in Kenya, where they remained during the war, ther...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:40
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Gideon Frieder discusses the time he spent hiding with a Catholic Slovak family. After his mother and sister perished in a German attack at Banska ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:02
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Freddie Traum discusses life as a refugee in Great Britain during World War II. Freddie and his sister were sent from their home in Austria, to Eng...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
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Leon Merrick discusses the importance and difficulties of work in the Lodz ghetto. Working in the ghetto post office, his job of delivering the mai...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:39
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Louise Lawrence-Israels discusses memories from her early childhood spent hiding in Amsterdam. In 1942, 6 month old Louise and her family went into...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:41
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In this episode Helen Goldkind discusses her deportation and arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:35
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Jacqueline Mendels Birn discusses her family’s flight in July 1942 from German-occupied Paris to the southern “free” French zone known as Vichy.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:24
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Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:51
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Halina Peabody discusses her mother’s decision to go into hiding as a family following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Halina spent the war ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 12:02
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Martin Weiss discusses his liberation from Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, in 1945 and the days immediately following.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:39
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Charlene Schiff discusses her and her mother’s escape in 1942 from the Horochow ghetto in Poland. Soon after their escape, Charlene was separated f...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 09:04
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Gerald Liebenau discusses his memories of Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9-10, 1938 a wave of violent anti-J...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
Caption: Hillside in Murambi, Credit: Photo by Gregory Warner
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:48
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A Hollywood mini-series changes the way Germans understand the Holocaust.

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 11:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Two World War II veterans recall memories of serving on the front lines, and helping to liberate two concentration camps.

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  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 11:12
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A young Jewish piano prodigy, whose music saved her life during the Holocaust.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2009
  • Length: 05:38
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The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2008
  • Length: 14:00
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In November 1938, the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in an event known as Kristallnacht—the "Night of Broken Glass." Susa...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:16
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Two holocaust survivors recount stories from their lost childhood when they hid their identities and hid physically to escape the Nazis.

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2004
  • Length: 06:13
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As the OSCE's advisor on antisemitism, Kathrin Meyer worked to increase awareness by creating educational programs for students and by promoting Ho...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Devorah Spilman
Devorah Spilman tells the story of how she became an observant Jew.

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:34
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Caption: Flory Jagoda (right) teaches Ladino songs., Credit: Morgan Miller
"Don't open your mouth. Just sit and play. Keep on playing."

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
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When Holocaust denier David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt for libel in a British court, she experienced what she called "the world of difference bet...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
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In 1945, the BBC broadcasted one reporter's description and field recording of a Shabbat service conducted on the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen conc...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:49
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Debbie Fisher talks about hearing about her father's experience at Auschwitz for the first time.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:32
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Caption: Free At Last!
When the Germans started the deportation of Jews in Antwerp, Belgium in 1942, Charles Spira was 4 years old. This is the story how Charles, his mo...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 21:09
  • Purchases: 1