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.
2018 Season
First Person is free and open to the public and requires no tickets. Seats are available first come, first served. Programs are held in the auditoriums on the lower level. Due to security precautions, please allow extra time for delays entering the Museum building. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is available at every program.
All programs begin at 11 a.m. and last one hour. Doors to the auditorium open at 10:45 a.m. Programs take place every Wednesday and Thursday from March 14 through August 9, 2018, with the exception of Wednesday, July 4. An additional program will take place on Tuesday, July 3.
Select programs March 14 through May 10 will be live streamed at ushmm.org/watch. Tweet your questions during the program using #USHMM. Watch recordings of programs on the Museum's YouTube channel. Hear more interviews in our First Person podcast series.
This year's season of First Person is made possible by generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation with additional funding from the Arlene and Daniel Fisher Foundation.
 Ruth Kohn Thursday, March 22, 2018 Learn more about Ruth |
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 Fritz Gluckstein Wednesday, March 28, 2018 Learn more about Fritz |
 Louise Lawrence-Israëls Thursday, March 29, 2018 Learn more about Louise |
 Margit Meissner Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Learn more about Margit |
 Esther Starobin April 5, 2018 Learn more about Esther |
 Jill Pauly Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Learn more about Jill |
 Kurt Pauly Thursday, April 12, 2017 Learn more about Kurt |
 Halina Peabody Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Learn more about Halina |
Fred Flatow Thursday, April 19, 2018 Learn more about Fred |
 Gideon Frieder Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Learn more about Gideon |
 Agi Geva Thursday, April 26, 2018 Learn more about Agi |
Ralph Berets Wednesday, May 2, 2018 |
 Julie Keefer Thursday, May 3, 2018 Learn more about Julie |
 Susan Warsinger Wednesday, May 9, 2018 Learn more about Susan |
 Albert Garih Thursday, May 10, 2018 Learn more about Albert |
 David Bayer Wednesday, May 16, 2018 Learn more about David |
 Sam Ponczak Thursday, May 17, 2018 Learn more about Sam |
Arye Ephrath Wednesday, May 23, 2018 |
 Michel Margosis Thursday, May 24, 2018 Learn more about Michel |
 Robert (Bob) Behr Wednesday, May 30, 2018 Learn more about Bob |
 Emanuel (Manny) Mandel Thursday, May 31, 2018 Learn more about Manny |
