In her book Kindertransport (1995), she writes of her experience as part of the Kindertransport, through which 10,000 Jewish children were sent to live with English families. Olga Levy Drucker was born in Germany in 1927, her life disrupted by actions taken against the Jewish people in the 1930s. Livia Bitton-Jackson published her memoir I Have Lived A Thousand Years in 1997, detailing the escalation of hate against Jewish people that she saw in her hometown in Czechoslovakia, her time at Auschwitz, Plaszow and Dachau, and her difficulty finding a childhood after she and her brother were liberated.Īfter she came to the United States, Bitton-Jackson gained an advanced education with which she’s dedicated her life to educating students about the past. The first clip of her testimony features her message to children, and the second features a reading from Alicia. In her memoir, she writes of escaping the Germans by luck and street sense, and of joining the underground group Bricha, which helped smuggle Jews out of Poland to the Palestine Mandate, and of her longstanding faith. Alicia Appleman-JurmanĪlicia Appleman-Jurman, who passed in April of this year, reinforced her memories of life during the Holocaust both in testimony shared with the Institute and in Alicia: My Story (1988). Watch a clip from each testimony in the playlist above. In honor of National Book Month, celebrated in October, we've compiled a set of clips from five survivors' testimonies who have also written books– descriptions of both are below. Though USC Shoah Foundation specializes in maintaining thousands of recorded testimonies in its Visual History Archive, many of the Institute’s interviewees have also published memoirs and autobiographies.įor listeners of testimony, researchers and students alike, this trove of primary sources can be invaluable for building greater understandings and appreciations for narratives, using a multi-media approach.
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