The Rita and Harold Divine Documentary Series

Ten Stories of Holocaust Survivors in New Orleans

In the years following World War II, a small group of Holocaust survivors settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. Beginnning in 1993, many of these survivors began telling their stories to school children throughout the Deep South as part of a Holocaust education program conducted by the Southern Institute. This series of 30-minute interviews was conducted in 2000 by Plater Robinson, Education Director for the Southern Institute.

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EVA GALLER Eva, eldest of eight children, was born in Oleszyce, a town in eastern Poland where Jews lived amoung Poles and Ukrainians. When the Germans attacked Poland in September 1939, Eva was 14 years old. Three thousand Jewish people lived in Oleszyce before World War II. Only twenty survived. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|		DORA NIEDERMAN Dora was born in the Carpathian Mountains of Czechoslovakia. Her region was annexed in 1939 by Hungary, Hitler's ally. In 1944, the Nazis occupied Hungarian territory and, with local collaborators, deported the Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)   |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|  |BIO|
JEANNINE BURK Jeannine was born on September 15, 1939, fifteen days after World War II began. She lived with her family in Brussels, Belgium. In 1942, the Nazis began deporting Belgian Jews to Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Jeannine's parents put her in the care of a Christian woman. The Nazi penalty for sheltering Jews was imprisonment or death. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|		FELICIA FUKSMAN Felicia was 19 when the Nazis attacked her native Poland in September 1939. She lived with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters in Lodz, a large industrial city. During the Nazi occupation, Felicia worked as a nurse in the Lodz ghetto; in 1944, she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|
SIGMUND BORAKS Sigmund (Siggy) was 14 years old when the Nazis occupied his hometown of Wielun, Poland, in September 1939. With his parents and younger sister Basha, Siggy was sent to two Nazi ghettos. He received a 'green card' (work card) that exempted him from 'evacuation' to Treblinka death camp. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|		SHEP ZITLER Shep was born in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1917. After World War I, newly independent Poland annexed Vilna. Shep was drafted into the Polish army in early 1939. When World War II began in September 1939, he was captured by the Germans near Warsaw. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|
MARTIN WASSERMAN Martin was born in Warsaw, Poland. He was 14 when World War II began in 1939. After the Germans occupied Warsaw, Martin was grabbed off the street and sent as a slave laborer to a Nazi weapons factory in Radom, Poland. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)   |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|		ISAAC NIEDERMAN Isaac was born in Transylvania, Romania. In 1939, Nazi-allied Hungary annexed that region. Isaac was fifteen years old. Jews were beaten, expropriated, and forced into ghettos. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC) |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|
ANNE LEVY Anne was four years old when the Nazis attacked and occupied Poland in September 1939. In January 1943, the family escaped the ghetto and survived the rest of the war pretending to be Christians. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)  |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC)  |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT| |STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|		LILA MILLEN Lila was two years old when the Nazis occupied her native Poland in September 1939. With her sister (Anne Levy) and parents, Lila endured two years of terror and starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto. |VIEW NOW| (MAC)   |DOWNLOAD COMPUTER-READY VIDEO| (MAC) |CREATE YOUR OWN DVD COPY| |TRANSCRIPT||STUDY GUIDE|   |ANSWER KEY|   |BIO|

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This series was funded by the Rita and Harold Divine Foundation, the Siggy Boraks Family, and made possible by the generous contribution of video production services of WDSU-TV in New Orleans.

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