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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Henry Kronberg, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Henry Kronberg by Esther Finder. Kronberg survived the Holocaust and discusses the fate of his family, and his life in America.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Lily Tokarski, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Lily Tokarski by Esther Finder discussing her arrival in North America with her family, who survived the Holocaust.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Sasha Semenoff, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Sasha Semenoff by Esther Finder. Semenoff is a Holocaust survivor, and discusses his life after he was liberated from a concentration camp in Europe in 1945.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Alexander Kuechel, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Alexander Kuechel by Esther Finder. Kuechel discusses the fate of his family at the hands of the Nazis and his journey through concentration camps in Europe. He was librated at age 21 and eventually came to the United States.

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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with William ""Willie"" Lebovic, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Willie Lebovic by Esther Finder. Lebovic was a soldier in the Hungarian Army, but was sent into a forced labor camp, which he managed to escape. He discusses his life after World War II in the Czech Republic, and his decision to leave Europe. This video also includes footage of Lydia Lebovic discussing photographs and other memories.

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Transcript of roundtable interview about Kristallnacht with Esther Finder, Raymonde Fiol, Alexander Kuechel, Philipp Meinecke and Rabbi Felipe Goodman, by Barbara Tabach, March 17, 2015

Date

2015-03-17

Description

In this interview, the participants discuss their experiences during Kristallnacht, and the commemoration events in southern Nevada with Holocaust survivors and their families. Mr. Kuechel recounts his journey through concentration camps and being liberated by the Russians. Rabbi Goodman talks about meeting Mr. Meinecke, whose grandfather was a high-ranking SS officer. Meinecke discusses his upbringing in Germany and trying to learn about his family's involvement in the Holocaust, and the hope he felt after the fall of the Berlin Wall as Jews returned to Germany. The group discusses the importance of Holocaust education because there are still so many untold stories.

On November 9th to November 10th, 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to one hundred Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the Night of Broken Glass, some thirty thousand Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933 when Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany. However, prior to Kristallnacht these Nazi policies had been primarily nonviolent. However, after Kristallnacht conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. During World War II, Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called final solution to what they referred to as "the Jewish problem" and carried out the systematic murder of some six million European Jews in what is now commonly known as the Holocaust.

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