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Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...C. South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Watch the full interviews of South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust and those who liberated the concentration camps or witnessed the atrocities that took place. Transcripts have been provided.
The Seared Souls: South Carolina Voices of the Holocaust documentary is also available on Knowitall.
The South Carolina Social Studies Standard Correlations provided for each of the videos in Seared Souls: South Carolina Voices of the Holocaust may also be used with the full interviews in South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust.
The Holocaust Forum was a collaboration between the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, ETV, and the South Carolina Department of Education.
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Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...Video
Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...Video
Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...Video
Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...Video
Born in 1917 in Poland, Max Krautler lived there until the outbreak of the war. He grew up amidst anti-Semitism and rumors of Hitler in the newspaper prior to the war. His family was moved into a...Video
Living in constant fear, the Diamantstein family fled from place to place—to a large Jewish community in Frankfurt; to the apartment of friends in Milan, Italy; to Como, Italy, escaping barefoot in...Video
Living in constant fear, the Diamantstein family fled from place to place—to a large Jewish community in Frankfurt; to the apartment of friends in Milan, Italy; to Como, Italy, escaping barefoot in...Video
Paula Popowski was born in Poland in 1923 in a predominantly Jewish city. "I came from a very orthodox family. I didn't socialize with Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles didn't mix in public school." In the...Video
In April 1945, just before the war's end, Lon Redman encountered his first concentration camp—Flossenburg. There was no organized resistance against the American soldiers. They easily evacuated the...Partners
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust - The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established to develop an educational program to prevent future atrocities similar to the systematic program...