Voice/Vision News

New Interview: Rose Green

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:26:48 -0400

Rose Green was born in Ložín, Czechoslovakia. When the war began, Rose and her husband moved to a state farm to work. They were separated, however, when Rose was deported to Sered. Rose discovered she was pregnant after being sent to Auschwitz but managed to hide her pregnancy and was sent to two other labor camps before being liberated. She gave birth to a son soon after the war and was reunited with her husband before moving to the United States.

New Interview: Salvatore and Lili Katan

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:40:40 -0400

Salvatore Katan was born in Salonika, Greece and his wife, Lili, was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia but was raised near Budapest, Hungary. Both were taken from their respective homes to Auschwitz after the start of the war. After liberation, Salvatore and Lili met at a displaced persons camp. Salvatore then followed Lili back to Budapest where they were married before settling in Italy. They moved to the United States after the birth of their twin boys

New Interview: Brenda Reiss

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:39:12 -0400

Brenda Reiss was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1923. After the German occupation of Poland, Brenda and her family were sent to the ghetto in Koźminek. From there, Brenda and her sister were taken to the Łódź ghetto and then to Auschwitz, where the sisters were separated. Brenda was sent to various forced labor camps before being liberated by the Russian Army. After the war she married and moved
to the United States.

New Interview: Sigmund Rubin

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:13:01 -0400

Sigmund Rubin was born in Lódz, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland, he fled to Warsaw with his family. Driven out of Warsaw by heavy bombing, the family returned to Lódz. Mr. Rubin and his brother were separated from the rest of their family during selection. He and his brother escaped the transport, but were separated. He never discovered the whereabouts of any of his family members. Mr. Rubin spent the remainder of the war in hiding in various locations throughout Poland. After the war, he and his wife lived for a time in Germany, immigrating to the United States in 1949.

Summer Newsletter, 2009

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:17:39 -0400

The latest edition of The Voice is now available. Read about a junior high school project inspired by some of the Voice/Vision interviews. This issue also contains articles about this year's Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration and Professor Bolkosky's trip to Israel, where he conducted interviews with several of the "Winton Children."

New Interview: Anne Hirschle

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:37:39 -0400

Anne Hirschle was born in Breslau, Germany in 1926. After Hitler came to power, her father moved the family to London, where she grew up. She met and married her husband after the war. Anne moved to the United States in 1949.

Voice/Vision Interviews Inspire Children's Books

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:32:25 -0400

A group of junior high school students from Washington has created a collection of children's books inspired by the testimony of those who survived the Holocaust.

The Cavelero Mid High students used the Voice/Vision online collection to research the Holocaust. Moved by the personal stories of survival they encountered on the site, the students wrote and illustrated children's books based upon the interviews they studied.

The storybooks, with titles like "Tamara the Cricket" and "Motzi the Mouse," use illustrations and symbolic language to recount the survivors' stories in a manner appropriate for young readers.

The budding authors' English teacher had the finished stories professionally bound and has entrusted Voice/Vision Curator Dr. Jamie Wraight to see that the books reach the survivors whose accounts inspired their creation. Along with the storybooks, the student authors also sent photographs and letters addressed to the survivors. In the letters, students wrote of their admiration for the survivors' courage and thanked them for sharing their stories, and some wrote that they hoped to correspond with the survivor they had written about.

For more information, click here and here.

Nicholas Winton and the Power of Good

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:24:47 -0400

In December 1938, Nicholas Winton--a British stock-broker on holiday in Prague--recognized the danger posed to the Jewish community by the impending Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia. Setting up an office in the lobby of his hotel, Winton helped raise money and secure paperwork for the transport of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia to England. In the following months, Winton was able to secure the transport of 669 Jewish children, sending them to England and putting them out of the reach of the Nazi regime.

In January 2008, the Gelman Education foundation of Ann Arbor donated $25,000 to the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in order to send the archive’s director, Professor Sidney Bolkosky, to Israel where he conducted interviews with 11 of the children who were saved by Winton.

These unique interviews are now available to the public via the Voice/Vision website.

Hugo Marom
Lisa Kallai
Helen Stransky
Tamara Sessler
Kurt Stern
Hanna Ramras
Ruth Federman
Zyta Eliahu
Malka Sternberg
Zivia Fischler and Baruch Spergel

New Interview: Esther Posner

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:50:19 -0400

Esther Posner was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on May 11, 1936. After the German invasion, Esther and her family were forced to live in the Amsterdam Ghetto, but were able to contact the Dutch underground. They were hidden by several families in Enschede and Delden for the duration of the war until the Netherlands was liberated by the Allies.

New Interview: David Burdowski

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:32:58 -0400

David Burdowski was born in Klodawa, Poland on September 27, 1924. Following the invasion of Poland, he was taken to a forced labor camp called Buchwerder Forst. From there he was taken to work in a paper factory and was then sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. David was transported to many camps during the war before being liberated on a train outside of Dachau by American forces in Staltach. After the war he lived in the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp and met his future wife. He moved to America in 1949 and started a family

New Interview: Nathan Weiselman

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:48:09 -0500

Nathan Weiselman was born in 1914 in Radom, Poland. During most of the war, Mr. Weiselman was confined to a Russian work camp. Following the war, he returned briefly to Radom. Finding that his entire family had perished, he left Poland and spent three years in a DP camp in Austria. After marrying in Austria, Mr. Weiselman and his wife stayed briefly in an Italian DP camp, eventually immigrating to New Mexico.

New Interview: Zivia Fischler

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:46:26 -0500

Zivia Fischler was born in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia in 1933. Following the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, her family moved to Prague. Zivia’s parents then arranged for her older brother, Baruch to be sent to England on a transport organized by Nicholas Winton. Zivia, unable to travel due to a broken leg, was sent on a later transport, also organized by Winton. Both siblings lived with their aunt and uncle in London before being split up. Baruch was boarded at Gwrych Castle and then moved to London to work. He joined the British Army after the war. Zivia was sent to stay at several different schools and family members for the duration of the war. After the war the siblings moved to Palestine to be with their parents who both had survived the war.

New Interview: Baruch Spergel

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:29:34 -0500

Baruch Spergel was born in Poland but moved to Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia with his family where his sister, Zivia Fischler, was later born. Following the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, the family moved to Prague. Their parents then arranged for Baruch to be sent to England on a transport organized by Nicholas Winton. Zivia was sent on a later transport, also organized by Winton. Both siblings lived with their aunt and uncle in London before being split up. Baruch was boarded at Gwrych Castle and then moved to London to work. He joined the British Army after the war. Zivia was sent to stay at several different schools and family members for the duration of the war. After the war the siblings moved to Palestine to be with their parents who both had survived the war.

New Interview: Malka Sternberg

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:12:24 -0500

Malka Sternberg was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia. When the Sudetenland was given to Hitler, she and her family moved to Prague. After Hitler invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia, Malka's father escaped to Russia while her mother arranged for Malka and her brother to escape to England on a transport organized by Nicholas Winton. After the war, she was reunited with her father in Israel.

New Interview: Zyta Eliahu

nospam@example.com (Jamie Wraight) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:50:54 -0500

Zyta Eliahu was born in Nadwórna, Poland. Soon after the Germans took over the Sudetenland, Zyta and her parents moved to Podmokly, Czechoslovakia and later to Prague. While in Prague her parents registered Zyta with Nicholas Winton to have her transported to England before the war broke out. She was fostered with a family in Loose, Kent before reuniting with her parents in Israel in 1948.