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She had survived Auschwitz as a child. And she was likely added to the program as a symbol of reconciliation.
We mourn the passing of Dana Schwartz, 89, a Holocaust survivor and dedicated interviewer for the USC Shoah Foundation, who died on May 9 in Los Angeles. Dana, who later became a teacher and marriage and family therapist, was four when the Second World War started. She and her mother escaped the Lwów ghetto and survived in hiding. Dana was among the earliest volunteers when Survivors of the ...
Student-Penned Books Keep Holocaust Survivors’ Stories Alive. Across the rural towns spanning the Illinois-Idaho border, sobering tales of Nazi-era Europe come alive thanks to a Christian farmer’s daughter with a passion for history. She is Deb Bowen, an unlikely champion of Jews with a mission to make the Holocaust real for local children.
It is now in its 30th anniversary year. McKibben presented the foundation’s work to collect audio-visual interviews with Holocaust survivors at “In Their Own Voices: Documenting and Accessing Survivor Testimonies with the Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive,” a June 30 session at the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2024 ...
Holocaust claimed six million Jewish lives. Personal narratives reveal emotional and psychological toll. Gizi's family faced brutal selection at Auschwitz. G...
On June 26, 95-year-old Ursula Haverbeck, who’s been dubbed the “Nazi grandma”, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for two statements she made in 2015 that denied the Auschwitz concentration camp was used to kill Jewish people. Holocaust denial is a crime under German law. Facebook posts featuring images of Haverbeck have claimed the ...
The survival movies based on true stories can offer harrowing examples of people performing extraordinary feats in the most desperate of circumstances, but those films are few and far between. Survival films often depict what really happened to people whose life is told in a story that could be inspirational or end in disaster.
