First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
The Museum’s First Person program enables visitors to hear Holocaust survivors tell their life stories in their own words, uniting personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program features a live interview between journalist Bill Benson and a survivor, followed by a question-and-answer session.
The interviews are also available as a podcast series. Listen here.
2013 First Person Season
This year’s season of First Person is made possible by generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
All programs begin at 1 p.m. and usually last one hour.
- Wednesday, May 8: Susan Taube »
- Thursday, May 9: Irene Weiss »
- Wednesday, May 15: Gideon Frieder »
- Thursday, May 16: Jacqueline Mendels Birn »
- Wednesday, May 22: Louise Lawrence-Israels »
- Thursday, May 23: Albert Garih »
- Wednesday, May 29: Alex Shilo »
- Thursday, May 30: Jill Pauly »
- Wednesday, June 5: Gerald Liebenau »
- Thursday, June 6: Julius Menn »
- Wednesday, June 12: David Bayer »
- Thursday, June 13: Bob Behr »
- Wednesday, June 19: Rita Rubinstein »
- Thursday, June 20: Steven Fenves »
- Wednesday, June 26: Michel Margosis »
- Thursday, June 27: Alfred Traum »
- Tuesday, July 2: Martin Weiss »
- Wednesday, July 3: Nesse Godin »
- Wednesday, July 10: Harry Markowicz »
- Thursday, July 11: Leon Merrick »
- Wednesday, July 17: Manya Friedman »
- Thursday, July 18: Inge Katzenstein »
- Wednesday, July 24: Rae Goldfarb
- Thursday, July 25: Emanuel Mandel »
- Tuesday, July 30: Estelle Laughlin »
- Thursday, August 1: Jacques Fein »
- Wednesday, August 7: Fanny Aizenberg »
- Thursday, August 8: Frank Liebermann »
- Wednesday, August 14: Esther Starobin »
- Thursday, August 15: Fritz Gluckstein »
