First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series produced by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This podcast series features excerpts from interviews with Holocaust survivors presented at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s public program, First Person — Conversations with Holocaust Survivors.
This podcast series features excerpts from interviews with Holocaust survivors presented at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s public program, First Person — Conversations with Holocaust Survivors. More than sixty years after the Holocaust, hatred, antisemitism, and genocide still threaten our world. The life stories of Holocaust survivors transcend the decades and remind us of the constant need to be vigilant citizens and to stop injustice, prejudice, and hatred wherever and whenever they occur.
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From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
From: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
Series: First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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
