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Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors

2012
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Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors (2012)

Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors records the collective stories of six Holocaust survivors: Rolf Hess (Germany) witnessed Kristallnacht, was deported to a relocation camp, separated from his family, and was rescued and hidden in a French orphanage. Al Negrin (Greece) fought in the resistance before being sent to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Philip Markowicz and Aron Wajskol (Poland) survived the Lodz Ghetto, only to be shuffled between numerous forced labor camps, ending the war on death marches. William Leons (Netherlands) spent nearly two years alone in an attic room as a hidden child, and Clara Rona (Hungary) was torn from her family and sent to many work camps before escaping a death march just days before the end of the war. A collaboration with the Jewish community of Toledo, Ohio, Bearing Witness fosters dialogue between the survivors and todayÂ’s youth, cultivating personal awareness and oneÂ’s responsibility to understand history in order for future generations to prevent the atrocities of the Holocaust from happening again. Through our survivorsÂ’ individual stories, the HolocaustÂ’s collective history is shared. Through the survivorsÂ’ personal memories and messages of hope, we are inspired by the human will to survive.

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Bearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors shares the collective stories of six Holocaust survivors from Germany, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, and Hungary. Their experiences ranged from li... Read allBearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors shares the collective stories of six Holocaust survivors from Germany, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, and Hungary. Their experiences ranged from living through anti-Semitism and Kristallnacht, surviving the Lodz Ghetto, fighting in the r... Read allBearing Witness: The Voices of Our Survivors shares the collective stories of six Holocaust survivors from Germany, Poland, Greece, Netherlands, and Hungary. Their experiences ranged from living through anti-Semitism and Kristallnacht, surviving the Lodz Ghetto, fighting in the resistance, being shuffled between forced labor camps, suffering as slave laborers, escapin... Read all