Joseph Goebbels secretary recalls what he was like in the office in the forthcoming film A German Life. Goebbels was Hitler’s minister of a Propaganda. It was on November 16, 1941 that Goebbels released his “screed of hate,” in the German magazine Das Reich that “The Jews wanted the war, … Continue reading
Elisheva Zimet Stern and Rita Weiss, survivors of the Holocaust, describe what happened when they were deported from Hungary and taken to the concentration camps. Continue reading
During World War II, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish businessman and diplomat, saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews living in Nazi-occupied Hungary. While working as Sweden’s special envoy in Budapest from July to December of 1944, Wallenberg issued protective passports and sheltered Jews in buildings designated as Swedish … Continue reading
Adolf Eichmann was a lieutenant colonel in the Nazi Army and one of the lead organizers of the holocaust. Eichmann was responsible for coordinating the logistics of of sending Jews to ghettos and extermination camps across Easter Europe during World War II. After the war, Eichmann managed to escape to … Continue reading
On October 14, 1943, approximately 600 prisoners attempted to escape from the Sobibor extermination camp on the outskirts of Sobibor, Poland. Of the 600 who revolted, around half were able to escape and fifty of those were able to avoid being recaptured. In this video, survivors of the Sobibor camp … Continue reading
Holocaust survivors that were present during the mass deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto give their accounts of what it was like as Nazi police officers took Jews away from their families to bring them to Umschlagplatz, a new transfer station. One survivor recalls thinking it would be better to commit … Continue reading
Eva Schloss, Auschwitz survivor and stepsister of Anne Frank, reflects on the lively personality that Frank had while growing up. She explains Frank as a vivid storyteller that would sometimes even get in trouble at school for talking too much. Schloss then goes on to compare and contrast her experience … Continue reading
Holocaust survivors, who also were part of the group that fought the Germans during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, explain their stories. During the uprising, they were able to kill some of the German soldiers and it helped to keep their spirits high. They describe the call to arms that every … Continue reading
Survivors of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising explain what it was like to be in the bunkers during the uprising. They share stories about the food and water conditions, hearing the Nazis taunt them on radios, and the horrible life-changing decisions they had to make in order to … Continue reading
Two survivors of the Holocaust that also lived in the Warsaw Ghetto describe the horrible conditions in the area. They explain the massive amounts of starvation as their fathers and siblings, swollen with hunger, were helpless and willing to eat molded bread.
