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 increas...
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First Person Podcast
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 H...
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20 of 26 episodesHaim 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...
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 c...
Emanuel (Manny) Mandel: Wearing the Yellow Star as a Child in Hungary
Manny Mandel discusses wearing a yellow star as a young boy in Budapest. Hungary fell increasingly under the influence of Germany in the 193...
Regina Spiegel: Separation at Auschwitz
Regina Spiegel discusses her deportation from the ghetto in Pionki, Poland, and her arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing...
Julius Menn: Flight from Invading German Troops
Julius Menn discusses his family's flight eastward from advancing German troops invading Poland in September 1939. Julius's family escaped f...
Isak Danon: Attack on the Synagogue in Split
Isak Danon discusses the attack on the synagogue in his hometown of Split, Yugoslavia, in the summer of 1942. Germany had invaded Yugoslavia...
Fritz Gluckstein: Berlin in the Aftermath of World War II
Fritz Gluckstein discusses life immediately after World War II in Berlin and his eventual immigration to the United States. Born to a Jewish...
Helen Luksenburg: Forming a Friendship in Gleiwitz
Helen Luksenburg discusses forming a close friendship with Welek, now William Luksenburg, a fellow prisoner in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Au...
David Bayer: Life After the German Invasion of Poland
David Bayer discusses life in his hometown of Kozienice after the German invasion of Poland in September, 1939. Shortly after the invasion D...
Morris Rosen: Forced Evacuation
Morris Rosen discusses his evacuation and forced march on foot in February 1945 from a subcamp of the Gross Rosen concentration camp in Pola...
Manya Friedman: Death March to Ravensbrück
Manya Friedman discusses her evacuation from Gleiwitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz, to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in January 1945. In an...
Gerald Liebenau: Memories of Kristallnacht
In today’s episode Gerald Liebenau discusses his memories of Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9-10, 193...
Gideon Frieder: Safe Harbor Among a Slovak Family
Gideon discusses the time he spent hiding with a Catholic Slovak family. After his mother and sister perished in a German attack at Banska B...
Inge Katzenstein: Refuge In Kenya
Inge Katzenstein discusses fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and finding refuge along with her family in Kenya, where they remained during the wa...
Martin Weiss: Selection at Auschwitz
Martin Weiss discusses his deportation in May 1944 from the ghetto in Munkacs, then part of Hungary, and his arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau,...
Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald
In December 1944, as the Soviet army approached the slave labor camp in Poland where Leon Merrick was imprisoned, the Germans evacuated him...
Erika Eckstut: A Young Girl’s Experience in the Ghetto
Erika Eckstut discusses the difficulties and dangers of life in the Czernowitz ghetto in what was then Romania (and today is western Ukraine...
Leon Merrick: Importance of Work in the Lodz Ghetto
Leon Merrick's job delivering mail in the Lodz ghetto became all the more difficult over time as Nazi deportations to the extermination camp...
Helen Goldkind: Arrival at Auschwitz
Helen Goldkind discusses her deportation and arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.
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