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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 Holocaust S... Read more

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Regina Spiegel: Separation at Auschwitz

Regina Spiegel: Separation at Auschwitz

Regina Spiegel discusses her deportation from the ghetto in Pionki, Poland, and her arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the l... Read more

8 Jul 2009

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Helen Goldkind: Arrival at Auschwitz

Helen Goldkind: Arrival at Auschwitz

Helen Goldkind discusses her deportation and arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi killing center.

17 Jun 2008

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Helen Luksenburg: Survival in the Camps

Helen Luksenburg: Survival in the Camps

Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance, and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz co... Read more

3 Jun 2008

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Fritz Gluckstein: Protest at Rosenstrasse

Fritz Gluckstein: Protest at Rosenstrasse

Fritz Gluckstein discusses multiple close calls with the Nazis in Berlin, his detainment at a Gestapo holding site at Ro... Read more

26 Mar 2008

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Henry Greenbaum: Attempting Escape from a Slave Labor Camp

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 ... Read more

26 Aug 2009

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Martin Weiss: Selection at Auschwitz

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 ... Read more

5 May 2009

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Manya Friedman: Death March to Ravensbrück

Manya Friedman: Death March to Ravensbrück

Manya Friedman discusses her evacuation from Gleiwitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz, to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in ... Read more

27 May 2009

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Charlene Schiff: A Daughter’s Separation from Her Mother

Charlene Schiff: A Daughter’s Separation from Her Mother

Charlene Schiff discusses her and her mother’s escape in 1942 from the Horochow ghetto in Poland. Soon after their escap... Read more

19 May 2009

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Martin Weiss: Reflections on Liberation

Martin Weiss: Reflections on Liberation

Martin Weiss discusses his liberation from Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, in 1945 and the days immediately follow... Read more

7 May 2008

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Frank Liebermann: Changes in Germany After Nazi Rise to Power

Frank Liebermann: Changes in Germany After Nazi Rise to Power

Frank Liebermann discusses life in Germany after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Shortly after taking power, the Nazis ... Read more

14 Jul 2009

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Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald

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 Ge... Read more

29 Apr 2009

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Marcel Drimer: Escaping the “Concert of Death”

Marcel Drimer: Escaping the “Concert of Death”

Marcel Drimer, his sister, and mother hid in a wheat field while a German aktion—a violent operation against Jewish civi... Read more

15 Apr 2009

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Josiane Traum: Hiding in a Convent in Brugge

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 con... Read more

27 Apr 2010

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Gerald Liebenau: Memories of Kristallnacht

Gerald Liebenau: Memories of Kristallnacht

In today’s episode Gerald Liebenau discusses his memories of Kristallnacht, also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” O... Read more

26 May 2009

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Haim Solomon: Hiding during the Pogrom in Iasi

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, ... Read more

19 Aug 2009

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Esther Starobin: Fate of Family that Remained in Germany

Esther Starobin: Fate of Family that Remained in Germany

Esther Starobin and her three sisters left Germany for Great Britain in 1939 as part of a special rescue of Jewish child... Read more

2 Jun 2009

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Gerald Schwab: A German Jewish Refugee Returns as an American Soldier

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... Read more

5 Aug 2009

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Margit Meissner: Flight from Paris on a Bicycle

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 mo... Read more

12 Aug 2009

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David Bayer: Life After the German Invasion of Poland

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 ... Read more

16 Jun 2009

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Helen (Lebowitz) Goldkind: A Grandfather’s Humiliation

Helen (Lebowitz) Goldkind: A Grandfather’s Humiliation

Helen Goldkind discusses the humiliation she and her family experienced as they were forced by the Germans to move from ... Read more

28 Jul 2009

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