Holocaust Survivors’ Reflections and Hopes for the Future
In today's episode, Holocaust survivors share their thoughts on the importance of speaking about their experiences. It is our tradition at First Perso...
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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.
Estelle Laughlin: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Estelle Laughlin discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when German forces, intending to liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, were stunned by an arm...
Theodora Klayman: Shelter in Ludbreg
Theodora (Dora) Klayman discusses surviving the war in hiding with her brother in Ludbreg, Yugoslavia. After her parents were deported in 1941, she sp...
Steven Fenves: Neighbors in Subotica
Steven Fenves discusses being forced into a ghetto immediately following the German occupation of his hometown of Subotica, Yugoslavia, in March 1944....
Alfred Münzer: Difficult Decisions in the Occupied Netherlands
Alfred Munzer discusses the difficult decisions his parents, Dutch Jews, had to make after learning in early 1941 that they were expecting a child. Ge...
Josiane Traum: Hiding in a Convent in Brugge
Josiane (Josy) Traum discusses her memories of life in hiding at a Carmelite convent in Brugge, Belgium. In 1942, as conditions grew increasingly more...
Henry Greenbaum: Attempting Escape from a Slave Labor Camp
Henry Greenbaum discusses his attempt to escape from a slave labor camp near Starahowice, Poland, with his sister Faige and a Jewish policeman in July...
Haim Solomon: Hiding during the Pogrom in Iasi
Haim Solomon discusses hiding during the pogrom that Romanian authorities staged against the Jewish population in Iasi, Romania, within days of the Ge...
Margit Meissner: Flight from Paris on a Bicycle
Margit Meissner discusses her flight from Paris just before the city fell to the Germans in June 1940. Margit and her mother were Austrian citizens li...
Gerald Schwab: A German Jewish Refugee Returns as an American Soldier
Gerald Schwab discusses his experience being drafted into the US Army in 1944 after fleeing Nazi Germany just four years earlier. After the war, he as...