First Person Podcast
This podcast series features excerpts from interviews with Holocaust survivors presented at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's public program, First Person -- Conversations with Holocaust Survivors.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2008 - 2010
Jacqueline Mendels Birn: Flight from Paris
Jacqueline Mendels Birn discusses her family’s flight in July 1942 from German-occupied Paris to the southern “free” French zone known as Vichy.
Tue 10 Jun 2008
Helen Luksenburg: Survival in the Camps
Helen Luksenburg discusses daily life, spiritual resistance, and forced labor in Gleiwitz, a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Tue 03 Jun 2008
Martin Weiss: Reflections on Liberation
Martin Weiss discusses his liberation from Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, in 1945 and the days immediately following.
Wed 07 May 2008
Fritz Gluckstein: Protest at Rosenstrasse
Fritz Gluckstein discusses multiple close calls with the Nazis in Berlin, his detainment at a Gestapo holding site at Rosenstrasse 2-4, and the subsequent public demonstration that brought about his …
Wed 26 Mar 2008
Fanny Aizenberg: A Mother’s Agonizing Decision
Fanny Aizenberg discusses life for Belgian Jews after the German invasion in May 1940. Fanny’s husband heeded the call of the Royal Air Force asking for Belgian volunteers while Fanny took care of th…
Wed 19 Mar 2008
Halina Peabody: Hiding in Plain Sight
Halina Peabody discusses her mother’s decision to go into hiding as a family following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Halina spent the war in Poland living under false papers identifying her …
Wed 12 Mar 2008
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