Family Stories and Videos of Local Interest
Rachel speaks about her family and how they escaped from Germany before the Holocaust. Rachel's parents had weathered wars and the Russian revolution while living in Lithuania.
Ilse Voss speaks about her family life in a small town outside Vienna prior to Hitler’s annexation of Austria.
Fred speaks about volunteering for the American army after arriving in the U.S. He was sent to France as a combat engineer and translator.
Fred talks about growing up in Aachen in Germany before the Nazi’s came to power. During the following six years, Fred’s family struggled to make a life for themselves, until the Kristallnacht.
We Don't Say Goodbye recounts the story of the Holocaust as told by survivors who settled in New York's Southern Tier.
Rose speaks about her experiences as a teenager in Stuttgart in the 1930s, as she was shunned by friends in the classroom, and the laws in Germany changed, requiring her family to flee.
