First Person Podcast

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First Person Podcast 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 Holocaust Survivors.

  1. 29/09/2010

    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 Person that each guest speaker ends the program with their "final words." In our final podcast of the series, we close with those thoughts, reflections, and hopes for the future.

  2. 11/08/2010

    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 armed uprising from Jewish fighters. Estelle and her family hid in an underground bunker during the uprising but were eventually captured and deported.

  3. 13/07/2010

    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 spent the war first with her maternal aunt and then, after her aunt was denounced and deported, with non-Jewish neighbors.

  4. 08/06/2010

    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. As his family was forced out of their home, they encountered a range of responses from their non-Jewish neighbors.

  5. 27/04/2010

    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 dangerous for Jews living in German-occupied Belgium, her mother, Fanny, arranged to have Belgian nuns hide her three-year-old daughter in the convent.

  6. 26/08/2009

    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 1944.

  7. 19/08/2009

    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 German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Haim and his family hid in various different locations across the city. At least 4,000 Jews were murdered in Iasi during the pogrom.

  8. 12/08/2009

    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 living in Paris, which meant they were considered “enemy aliens” because Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938. They were ultimately separated and Margit was left with the responsibility of getting safely out of Paris on her own.

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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.

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  • Creator
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Years Active
    2008 - 2010
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2008 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • Show Website
    First Person Podcast

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