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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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Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Martha Bauer and her family lived in Belgium. When Hitler took over, children were taught to hate all Jews. She was careful with childhood friendships and would not even walk with non-Jewish friends...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Felix Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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 Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Pincus Kolender was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1940 synagogues, schools, and businesses were closed to Jews, who were placed in ghettos. One always felt trapped in the ghetto. The Nazis treated people...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Trude Heller's family narrowly escaped deportation to a concentration camp, but still had to live through other anxieties. At 14, she was made to quit school, and the family was forced out of their...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
Max Heller was born in Vienna in 1919 into an orthodox Jewish home. His father was a businessman. Heller drew strength from the Jewish community and from non-Jewish friends. Due to anti-Semitism...
Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust
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...