Public Programs United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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 2008 Season of First Person has been made possible by generous support from the Louis and Dora Smith Foundation.


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.

Sign language interpretation is available at every program. E-mail signedprograms@ushmm.org or call TTY 202.488.0406.

First Person programs are held on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. In June and July, First Person programs will take place on both Tuesday and Wednesday of each week.


Wednesday, 1 p.m.
May 7
Martin Weiss

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
May 14
Rabbi Jacob Wiener

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
May 21
Nesse Godin

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
May 28
Charlene Schiff

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
June 3
Helen Luksenburg

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
June 4
Morris Rosen

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
June 10
Jacqueline Birn

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
June 11
Henry Greenbaum

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
June 17
Helen Goldkind

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
June 18
William Luksenburg

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
June 25
Louise Lawrence-Israels

Thursday, 1 p.m.
June 26
Susan Taube

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
July 1
Leon Merrick

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
July 2
Emanuel (Manny) Mandel

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
July 8
Estelle Laughlin

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
July 9
Regina and Sam Spiegel

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
July 15
George Pick

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
July 16
David Bayer

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
July 22
Livia Shacter

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
July 23
Manya Friedman

Tuesday, 1 p.m.
July 29
Alfred Traum

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
July 30
Esther Starobin

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
August 6
Catherine Liner

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
August 13
Izak Danon

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
August 20
Haim Solomon

Wednesday, 1 p.m.
August 27
Gideon Frieder