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Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust are the subjects of “Those Who Were There,” a new podcast from Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. The podcast is narrated by Eleanor Reissa, actress and Yiddish theater director, and historical oversight by Professor Samuel Kassow. “Those Who Were There” podcast features audio from videotaped interviews conducted between 1979 up to the present. "Back in 1979, video was regarded as a remarkable, groundbreaking technology

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Episode 3 - Annelies Herz

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2020/10/22

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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Episode 2 -- Isaac Zieman

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2020/10/01

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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Episode 1 -- Sally Frishberg

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2020/09/09

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 Two Introduction

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2020/09/09

Hear excerpts from the second season of “Those Who Were There,” featuring testimonies drawn from the nearly 600 interviews conducted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in affiliation with the Fortunoff Archive.

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Episode 10 — Sam Kassow

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2020/01/16

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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Episode 9 — Celia Kassow — Part 2

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2020/01/02

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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Episode 8 — Celia Kassow — Part 1

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2019/12/19

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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Episode 7 — Leonard Linton

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2019/12/05

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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Episode 6 — Renee Hartman

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2019/11/21

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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Episode 5 — Arne Brun Lie

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2019/11/07

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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Episode 4 — Sally Finkelstein Horwitz

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2019/10/24

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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Episode 3 — Heda Kovaly

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2019/10/10

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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Episode 2 — Leon Bass

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2019/09/26

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.

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Episode 1—Martin Schiller

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2019/09/12

As a little boy, Martin Schiller was sent to a slave labor camp in Poland along with his family. Separated from his mother, Martin never lost hope of being reunited with her after liberation. This is his story of survival.

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Series Introduction

Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust ·

2019/09/12

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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