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I Promised I Would Tell (Sonia Schreiber Weitz) (HCBN Logo Version)Later version with the Holocaust Center, Boston North, logo published to the Center's Vimeo on December 8, 2009. Sonia Schreiber Weitz, born August 27, 1928, in Kraków, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony in this featured film of the Holocaust Center, relevant to the memoir of Mrs. Weitz published the same year with the same title. Mrs. Weitz was a leader and founder of the Holocaust Center of the North Shore (later Holocaust Center Boston North). Video produced in cooperation with Cablevision, Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Walter Wertheimer (Abridged)Abridged 38 minute version of 55 minute March 20, 1996, testimony. Walter Jacob Wertheimer, born January 18, 1922, in Emmendingen, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Wertheimer recalls growing up the son of a lawyer in a German Jewish family, the rise of the Nazis and anti-Semitic persecutions in 1930s Germany, emigrating, and coming to the United States. Interviewer: Ann Solov Walker. Notetaker: Betty Ann Fishman. Produced by the Holocaust Center of the North Shore, Peabody, Massachusetts, and taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass. Full version of testimony here: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/3500
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Ina Winokur (Abridged)Ina Winokur, from Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony in this abridged version of her May 13, 1987 2-hour testimony, presenting an edited compilation in about 38 minutes with highlights of the longer video. Interviewers: Rabbi Sam Kenner and Deborah Shelkan Remis. Camera: Richard Adelman. Filmed at Continental Cablevision, Beverly, Massachusetts. Full version of testimony here: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/3501
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A Response Disequilibrium Approach to Escape and AvoidanceResponse Disequilibrium Theory (RDT) offers a novel framework for analyzing negative reinforcement, and therefore, escape-avoidance behavior in humans. Timberlake and Allison (1974) approximated an RDT approach to negative reinforcement, while Heth and Warren (1981) designed a procedure to test it. Participants in Heth and Warren could terminate audio or visual stimuli as a form of escape-avoidance behavior. The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend Heth and Warren with a modern-day computer apparatus that included social media advertisements (Ads) and TikTok videos (Vids). The research question in the current study asked: Is there an escape-avoidance equilibrium that an individual will defend during conditions of response deficit or excess? A counterbalanced multi-treatment ABACA design was used to measure Ads and Vids termination durations in baseline (A) and during conditions of response deficit (B) and excess (C). Response deficit restricted access to Ads termination while response excess provided an overabundance of Vids termination. Both Ads and Vids played simultaneously during all conditions. Eight undergraduate students were recruited from Salem State University’s research participant system. Five of eight participants showed escape-avoidance equilibriums for terminating more Ads than Vids, while three of eight had an equilibrium for simultaneous play of Ads and Vids with minimal termination. Escape-avoidance behavior increased in the response deficit and decreased in the response excess condition. The observed reduction in escape-avoidance behaviors could be socially significant and provide practitioners ways to ameliorate negatively reinforced behavioral disorders.
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The Presidents And The People: A Conversation with Professor Corey BrettschneiderFrom John Adams to Richard Nixon, American history contains numerous examples of presidents who attempted to push the boundaries of the Constitution thereby threatening to erode or even destroy our democracy. What can these examples teach us about the power of the presidency and the fragility of democracy in the United States? Join us for a conversation with Professor Corey Brettschneider who will speak about his award-winning book, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It. Part of the Sonia Schreiber Weitz Series, hosted by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
