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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Ben Stern, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Ben Stern, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Ben Stern Part 1 (Length 1:02:13) Staying in a ghetto in Poland in the early 1940s, Ben Stern's people wore white arm bands with the Star of David to identify themselves as Jews. Food was rationed. In...
Ben Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Ben Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Staying in a ghetto in Poland in the early 1940s, Ben Stern's people wore white arm bands with the Star of David to identify themselves as Jews. Food was rationed. In 1943 they were all taken away in...
Bluma Goldberg | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Bluma Goldberg | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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​Bluma Goldberg grew up in Poland in a small, pretty town, with a close knit family and lots of friends. In 1939 Hitler invaded, and the whole town was burned. The Nazis took Jews, including her...
Cela Miller, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Cela Miller, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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​Cela Miller grew up in Poland during the 1920s. When the war started, the Germans burned towns and homes; removed priests, professors, and Jews. Those who turned in Jews got a kilogram of sugar. She...
Cela Miller, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Cela Miller, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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​Cela Miller grew up in Poland during the 1920s. When the war started, the Germans burned towns and homes; removed priests, professors, and Jews. Those who turned in Jews got a kilogram of sugar. She...
Claude Hipp | S.C. Voices: Lessons from Holocaust
Claude Hipp | S.C. Voices: Lessons from Holocaust

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Born in 1923 in Cross Hill, S.C., Claude Hipp was assigned to the Army infantry in North Carolina in 1943. He was shipped to Europe and marched through Camp Orsdorff where 9,000 workers had been...
Ethel Stafford | S.C Voices: Lessons of Holocaust
Ethel Stafford | S.C Voices: Lessons of Holocaust

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Born in New York, Ethel Stafford graduated from nurses' training in 1944, went in the Army, and was transferred to Europe. She didn't know what was happening to Jews. The medical staff she was with...
Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Vienna in 1914, Felix Bauer lived with anti-Semitism even before Hitler's takeover of Austria. When the Nazis invaded, his father said, "Nobody will do anything to me." But the killings...
Felix Goldberg | S. C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Felix Goldberg | S. C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Poland, Felix Goldberg was captured near Warsaw in 1939 and sent to a German work camp. He worked hard on the farm in the bitter cold with little to eat. Later he was sent to Auschwitz. He...
Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in Germany in 1906, Gerald Jablon saw anti-Semitism displayed in teachers' attitudes toward Jewish students. He was sent to a work camp to dig ditches; there was no room to sleep. No one knows...
Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Born in 1920 in Greer, S.C., Horace Berry graduated from Clemson in 1941 and entered the service. As part of Patton's army, he was assigned to bury the dead and send surviving Jews to hospitals in...
Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Hugo Schiller grew up in Germany in the 1930s, hearing about Hitler. His parents were forced to sell their business. In 1938, his father was arrested. His education in a public school ended when it...
Jadzia Stern, Part 1 | S. C Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Jadzia Stern, Part 1 | S. C Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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​Those born in Poland knew that people in Europe pointed a finger at Jews all the time; some still do today. When the Germans invaded Poland, some Jews fled with Gentiles or underground, but most were...
Jadzia Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust
Jadzia Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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​Those born in Poland knew that people in Europe pointed a finger at Jews all the time; some still do today. When the Germans invaded Poland, some Jews fled with Gentiles or underground, but most were...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Joe Engel was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1927. His father ran a luncheonette grocery. He went to public school in a small Jewish community and felt the animosity created by anti-Semitism. In 1942 all...