Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust

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  Series Introduction 12.09.2019 7min

  Meet host Eleanor Reissa and hear excerpts of upcoming episodes featuring first-hand accounts of the Holocaust—drawn from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.
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  Season 2, Episode 10 — Judith Perlaki 01.04.2021 26min

  Teenaged Judith Perlaki recalled cheating death twice after being deported from Hungary to Auschwitz. But most of her family wasn’t so fortunate. While assigned to sort the belongings of people sent to the gas chambers, Judith discovered the dresses of her little sister and aunt.
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  Season 2, Episode 9 — Elias Recanati 11.03.2021 25min

  When the Germans took control of the Greek city of Salonika, Elias Racanati’s family had one chance to escape—his mother’s family hailed from Spain. But they had to cross German-occupied Europe to get there.  
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  Season 2, Episode 8 — Malka Baran 18.02.2021 28min

  Malka Baran expressed her love of children by caring for a toddler hidden in the barracks of a concentration camp and teaching first grade at her DP camp. It was the start of her lifelong commitment to early-childhood education.
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  Season 2, Episode 7 - Leon Pommers 28.01.2021 29min

  Fleeing Warsaw ahead of the invading Nazis, concert pianist Leon Pommers was propelled into a perilous journey around the world in hopes of reuniting with his sister in America.
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  Season 2, Episode 6 - Esther Schwartzman 07.01.2021 27min

  As Polish Jews fled across the border into Hungary bearing stories of Nazi atrocities, Esther Schwartzman’s family and community didn’t believe that such things could happen to them. Then in early 1944, everything changed.
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  Season 2, Episode 5 - Abram Merczynski 03.12.2020 24min

  When Abram Merczynski’s brother organized an orchestra in the Lodz ghetto, Abram promised himself that if he survived the war, he’d learn to play the violin.  He lived—and kept his promise.
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  Season 2, Episode 4 - Helena Jonas 12.11.2020 29min

  Deported to the Plaszów concentration camp, Helen Jonas faced almost certain death. Instead, she was chosen by Amon Göth—the camp’s notorious, brutal commandant—to be his servant.
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  Season 2, Episode 3 - Annelies Herz 22.10.2020 30min

  Teenage Annelies Herz saw that fellow Jewish forced laborers were disappearing. So to survive in wartime Germany, she and her twin sister went underground: they secured new identities and never stayed in one place for long.
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  Season 2, Episode 2 -- Isaac Zieman 01.10.2020 32min

  Isaac Zieman was a passionate young Zionist with plans to make a life in Palestine. Instead, the Nazi invasion of Latvia propelled him on a years-long journey that took him across the Soviet Union and Europe and finally to the United States.
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  Season 2, Episode 1 -- Sally Frishberg 09.09.2020 30min

  High school teacher Sally Frishberg used her childhood experience of being hidden for two years with her family in a Polish farmer’s attic to create one of the first public high school classes on the history of the Holocaust.
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  Season 1, Episode 10 — Sam Kassow 16.01.2020 25min

  In October 1945, Celia Kassow gave birth to her son Sam in a German displaced persons camp. Seventy-five years later, Sam Kassow reflects on his mother’s life and an astonishing journey of discovery to his mother’s hometown in Eastern Europe.
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  Season 1, Episode 9 — Celia Kassow — Part 2 02.01.2020 21min

  When Nazi troops seized the Polish farm where Celia Kassow was in hiding, she fled once again—this time into the forest, where she joined the Soviet partisans.
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  Season 1, Episode 8 — Celia Kassow — Part 1 19.12.2019 20min

  When Nazi bombs fell from the sky, Celia Kassow fled her Polish boarding school and sought help from a classmate who lived nearby. The response? “Get away from here, you dirty Jew.”
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  Season 1, Episode 7 — Leonard Linton 05.12.2019 24min

  Leonard Linton's story spans half the globe—from Japan to Germany, France, New York, and back to Germany, where as a 23-year-old U.S. soldier he happened upon a concentration camp called Woebbelin.
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  Season 1, Episode 6 — Renee Hartman 21.11.2019 22min

  Renee Hartman was just a child when the Nazis swept into Czechoslovakia.  Her parents and sister were deaf, so she became her family’s ears, alert to the sound of the Gestapo’s boots.
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  Season 1, Episode 5 — Arne Brun Lie 07.11.2019 27min

  Eighteen-year-old Arne Brun Lie answered the patriotic call to join the Norwegian resistance.  But instead of fighting for his nation’s freedom, he found himself in the hands of the Nazis, fighting for his life.
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  Season 1, Episode 4 — Sally Finkelstein Horwitz 24.10.2019 16min

  After liberation from a slave labor camp, Sally Finkelstein Horwitz and her sister returned to Poland where anti-Jewish pogroms forced them to seek refuge in Germany.
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  Season 1, Episode 3 — Heda Kovaly 10.10.2019 21min

  When Heda Kovaly was deported from Prague to the Lodz ghetto, along with thousands of other Jews, she never imagined that of her entire extended family, only she and her husband would return alive.
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  Season 1, Episode 2 — Leon Bass 26.09.2019 26min

    Leon Bass faced racism growing up in Philadelphia, confronted it in the Army, and discovered its “ultimate” endpoint at a German concentration camp called Buchenwald.