The Holocaust
Dottie Winchester – AE: Auschwitz Liberator
Dottie Winchester’s husband, Rush, was a Liberator of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and her relatives lives in East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Melvin Waters – AE: Bergen Belsen Liberator
Melvin Waters was one of the first liberators to arrive at the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Milka “Miki” Snediker – AE: German Occupation
Miki Snediker lived in Belgrade when the Germans invaded and in Vienna where she spent time in a concentration camp under the German occupation and was freed just before the Russians invaded. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Sydelle Schedctmen – AE: Nazi Killing Squad
Sydelle Schectmen’s grandmother was shot by a Nazi killing squad in Belarus, Russia. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Jack Repp – AE: Nazi Hunter
Jack Repp survived unbelievable conditions for 6 years in Nazi Concentration Camps and then went to work for the US Secret Service as a Nazi Hunter. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Sam Kogutt – AE: Camp Liberator
Sam Kogutt was a Liberator at Siegen and Flossenburg Concentration Camps. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
The Great Escape
Marian Kestenberg escaped from the concentration camps. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Eyewitness to Kristallnacht
Renate Kahn grew up in Germany and experienced antisemitism and was an eyewitness to Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass when Jewish owned business were ransacked. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Mark Jacobs – AE: Father’s Story
Mark Jacobs relates his father’s story of surviving the Holocaust. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Margaret Hopkovitz – AE: Bergen Belsen
Margaret Hopkovitz was transfeered from Auschwitz to Bergen Belsen where she stole two potatoes in order to feed herself and her sister. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Margaret Hopkovitz – AE: Death March
Margaret Hopkovitz was part of the prisoner group that left Auschwitz in 1941 and went on a Death March en-route to other concentration camps. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Margaret Hopkovitz – AE: Dr. Josef Mengele
Margaret Hopkovitz encountered Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Merle Hacker – AE: Family History
Merle Hacker’s mother’s father was in the Russia-China War, her father’s mother, her aunt, and uncle suffered in the Holocaust and her father and his brothers built a chain of supermarkets. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Wilson Canafax – AE: Army Chaplain
Reverend Wilson Canafax was a chaplain with the US Army at the end of the war in Germany, and was the first US soldier to enter the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History.
Robert “Bob” Applebaum – AE: Holocaust Losses
Bob Applebaum lost most of his relatives in the Holocaust CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History
Charles Alford – Battle of the Bulge
Charles Alford was in the Battle of the Bulge and was a Liberator. CLICK HERE to watch the full Oral History