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All programs are FREE and open to the public.

Due to security precautions, please allow extra time prior to arrival for unexpected delays entering the building.

The 2010 Season of First Person was made possible by generous support from the Louis and Dora Smith Foundation.

Program hosted by Journalist Bill Benson.

 

 

 

 

First Person — Conversations with Holocaust Survivors


First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

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Sign language interpretation is available at every program.

First Person programs are held on Wednesdays from March-August. In April, May, June, and July programs will take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week.

The programs are also available as a podcast series. Listen here.

  1. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    March 24
    Rabbi Jacob Wiener »

  2. Wednesday
    March 31
    No First Person program

  3. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    April 6
    Martin Weiss »

  4. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    April 7
    Fritz Gluckstein »

  5. Tuesday
    April 13
    No First Person program

  6. Wednesday
    April 14
    No First Person program

  7. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    April 20
    Herman Taube »

  8. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    April 21
    Morris Rosen »

  9. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    April 27
    Josiane Traum »

  10. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    April 28
    William and Helen Luksenburg »

  11. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 4
    Leon Merrick »

  12. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 5
    Gerald Schwab »

  13. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 11
    Alfred Munzer »

  14. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 12
    Charlene Schiff »

  15. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 18
    Gerald Liebenau »

  16. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 19
    Frank Liebermann »

  17. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 25
    Susan Taube »

  18. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 26
    Manya Friedman »

  19. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 1
    Nesse Godin »

  20. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 2
    Erika Eckstut »

  21. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 8
    Steven Fenves

  22. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 9
    Inge Katzenstein »

  23. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 15
    Marcel Hodak

  24. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 16
    Alfred Traum »

  25. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 22
    Helen Goldkind »

  26. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 23
    Regina Spiegel »

  27. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 29
    Isak Danon »

  28. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 30
    Louise Lawrence-Israels »

  29. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 6
    Al Moritz

  30. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 7
    David Bayer »

  31. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 13
    Julius Menn »

  32. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 14
    Gideon Frieder »

  33. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 20
    Manny Mandel »

  34. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 21
    George Pick »

  35. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 27
    Estelle Laughlin »

  36. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 28
    Marcel Drimer »

  37. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 4
    Esther Starobin »

  38. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 11
    Catherine Liner »

  39. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 18
    Haim Solomon »

  40. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 25
    Henry Greenbaum »