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Presentations associated with the Holcoaust Center, Boston North, project, launched in 2008 to preserve the memory of the Holocaust through "legacy partners" empowered to tell the story of survivors. -
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Recent Submissions
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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.
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Claudia Zini, Research ConversationClaudia Zini, art historian and founder of Kuma International in Sarajevo, Bosnia, presents during a research conversation hosted by Salem State University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
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Trail Of Tears (For The Ones Who Died)Holocoaust-commemorative song “Trail Of Tears (For The Ones Who Died)” by singer-songwriter Peter Seltser, written March 17, 1996. The author at the time lived in Peabody, Mass., and was involved with friends in the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, the parent organization of the Holocaust Center.
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Program for Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony 2026Program for the Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony (Yom HaShoah) held by Salem State University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS) at Higgins Middle School, Peabody, MA, featuring a keynote conversation with Karen Kirsten, author of "Irena's Gift."
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Rena Greenup's Story by Lisette KaplowitzSlideshow story on Greek Holocaust survivor Rena Greenup's experiences before, during, and after WWII, presented with photographs, by Holocaust Legacy Partner Lisette Kaplowitz.
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Sam NatansohnSamuel "Sam" Natansohn, born 1929 in Rzeszow, Poland, and raised Jewish, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Natansohn describes the Nazi invasion, persecution of Jews and ghettoization by the Nazis, survival in a forced labor camp, escape and liberation by the Russians.
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Sidonia NatansohnSidonia (Sidi) Natansohn, born March 12, 1929, in Košice, Czechoslovakia, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Natansohn describes the persecution and ghettoization after Nazi invasion in 1944; her experience surviving Auschwitz, Plaszow, and Theresienstadt concentration camps; and liberation.
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Rena GreenupRena Abravanel Greenup, born May 12, 1936, in Thessaloniki (Salonica), Greece, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Greenup describes the actions of her parents after the Nazi invasion of Greece, hiding in southern Greece, her family's failed escape by boat in 1943, being imprisoned in a forced labor camp, her family's experience after the Nazis retreated, and coming to America.
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Maurice VanderpolMaurice Vanderpol, born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in a Jewish family, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Dr. Vanderpol describes the Nazi invasion of Holland, the persecution of Dutch Jews by the Nazis, survival in hiding, and his experience after liberation.
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Netty VanderpolNetty Vanderpol, born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in a Jewish family, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mrs. Vanderpol describes the Nazi invasion of Holland, the persecution of Dutch Jews by the Nazis, her survival of the Theresienstadt concentration camp; coming to Switzerland in a prisoner exchange in 1944 with her mother, father, and brother; and coming to America.
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Regine BarshakRegine Barshak provides Holocaust survivor testimony of her experience in France during and after World War II, coming from Paris, including the persecution of the Jews, arrest and imprisonment in Drancy concentration camp, escaping to hide in the country, working with the Americans after liberation in Paris, immigration to the United States with her brother, and life after coming to America.
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Willy SchickWilliam "Willy" Schick, born December 16, 1920, in Czechoslovkia, into a middle class Jewish family, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Schick describes surviving concentration camps (including Auschwitz, twice), the retreat of the Germans and the coming of the Russians, and managing to escape to the United States. Filmed by Peabody Access Telecommunications, Inc.
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Fred ManasseFred Manasse, born 1935 in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised Jewish, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Manasse describes rediscovering (as an adult) his memories of his early childhood at his family's hotel in Baden Baden, his experience as a small child escaping from Germany to Belgium through his father's means, his father's experience with the ill-fated voyage of the "St. Louis" to Cuba (his father would later die in Auschwitz, while his mother and sister were also murdered after trying to escape to Switzerland), and eventually escaping to the United States via France, Spain, and Portugal with his brother.
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Max LeviMax Levi, born 1921 in Wuppertal, Germany, and raised Jewish, provides Holocaust survivor testimony at Lynnfield Middle School, Lynnfield, Mass., presentation. Mr. Levi describes the escalation of anti-Semitic persecution in the school system, his family's systematic exclusion from public life under the Nuremberg Laws, and their eventual successful immigration to the United States. Filmed by Peabody Access Telecommunications, Inc.
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Stephan LewyStephan Lewy, a Holocaust Survivor from Germany presented a talk to an audience of teenagers and adults at Temple Ner Tamid, Peabody, Mass. The event was held under the auspices of the Holocaust Center Boston North.
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Stephan LewyStephan Lewy, born 1925 in Berlin, Germany, and raised Jewish, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Mr. Lewy describes his early life, having to live to in an orphanage as a child, persecution of Jews in 1930s Nazi Germany including his father sent to a concentration camp, Kristallnacht, his experience with the Kindertransport and going to France, and managing to join his parents in escaping to America. Filmed by Peabody Access Telecommunications, Inc.
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Franco MajokFranco Majok spoke to an audience of teenagers and adults at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Mass., as a keynote speaker of the 2011 Human Rights Awareness Conference, about his story of surviving the South Sudan Genocide. The event was under the auspices of the Holocaust Center, Boston North.
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Claude KaitareClaude Kaitare spoke to an audience of teenagers and adults at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Peabody, Mass., as a keynote speaker of the 2011 Human Rights Awareness Conference, about his story of surviving the Rwanda Genocide. The event was under the auspices of the Holocaust Center, Boston North.
