December 17, 2025 • 2:37 pm
After the Holocaust, survivors and representatives of the international community powerfully intoned a “never again.” Yet, genocides became a recurring reality in the post-Cold War worlds. The 1994 genocide in the East African country of Rwanda is but one...
December 17, 2025 • 2:36 pm
Susan Warsinger, a child survivor of the Holocaust who attended school in Hitler’s Germany before her parents had her smuggled across the border to prewar France, provides testimony about attending school as a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany.
December 17, 2025 • 2:35 pm
Ralph Preiss, Holocaust survivor who escaped to the Philippines with his parents in the late 1930s, speaking during the 2017 Symposium.
December 17, 2025 • 2:34 pm
This video is a recording of the testimony by Dr. Umuhire Ntabana, a child survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Dr. Ntabana was seven years old when this genocide took place. Her parents worked in the medical field, her mother as a nurse, her father as a physician and...
December 17, 2025 • 2:33 pm
This video is a recording of the testimony by Dr. Al Münzer, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who escaped deportation with the help of an Indonesian family in the German-occupied Netherlands, whose members hid him until the end of the war and genocide. The speaker...
December 17, 2025 • 2:32 pm
December 17, 2025 • 2:31 pm
This video is a recording of the testimony by Margot Lobree, a child survivor of the Holocaust, who escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939. Lobree reflects on her early childhood in Frankfurt-Bockenheim and the family’s many challenges during the...
December 17, 2025 • 2:30 pm
Child Holocaust Survivor Anny Lerman is being interviewed by Dr. Chris Patti (JHP/Comm). Ms. Lerman speaks at some length about her family, life in pre-Nazi Vienna, the family’s escape to Prague, and further flight to Palestine, where they arrived during the war...
December 17, 2025 • 2:29 pm
Dr. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, survivor of The Women’s Orchestra at Auschwitz, presented “Survivor Testimony: Genocide and the Abuse of Music.”
December 17, 2025 • 2:28 pm
This video is a recorded testimony by child survivor Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff (Florida) who escaped with her parents and baby brother on an eight-month train journey from Hungary to Lisbon, Portugal, where they managed to get on one of the last ships leaving for the...
December 17, 2025 • 2:27 pm
A Child Survivor from Zagreb, Croatia, Speaks. In this joint Center-USHMM Survivor Affairs Division program, child survivor Theodora Klayman gives testimony about her and her family’s struggles for survival in fascist Croatia, an ally of Nazi Germany whose...
December 17, 2025 • 2:25 pm
Tamar Grinshpon, daughter of Ela Weissberger, child performer in the Brundibar opera at the Terezin Ghetto, provides second-generation testimony.
December 17, 2025 • 2:24 pm
Auschwitz Survivor Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz z”l, née Eckstein, was almost 21, when the Nazis deported her to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. She survived the extermination camp and death march to the interior of the Reich at the end of the war. After a screening of...
December 17, 2025 • 2:21 pm
Auschwitz Survivor Dr. S. Cernyak-Spatz z”l on “Nazi Perpetrators Through The Eyes of the Victims.” Cernyak-Spatz z”l, who is a Professor Emerita of German Literature at UNC Charlotte, was born in Vienna and in 1929, moved with her family to...
December 17, 2025 • 2:20 pm
Dr. Zohara Boyd was born in Poland in 1942 during the height of the Holocaust when the “ghettos and gas ovens were at their busiest.” She grew up in post-World War II Poland, during a time when anti-semitism remained rampant. At age 7, her family fled to Paris,...
