2025 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Josie Traum
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“I was screaming and crying … I didn’t want to go,” remembers Holocaust survivor Josie Traum about the day strangers came to her family’s apartment and took her away. In 1942, as authorities began rounding up Jewish men, women, and children in Nazi-occupied Belgium, Josie’s mother knew she had to act quickly. She entrusted strangers in the resistance movement with taking three-year-old Josie to a secret location and keeping her safe. She didn’t know if this painful choice was the right one or if she’d ever see her only child again. Watch to learn what happened next, and discover if Josie and her mother ever reunited after their tearful goodbye. Hear Holocaust survivor Josie Traum’s experiences in her own words recorded on March 19, 2025. Marking 25 years, First Person is a monthly, hour-long discussion with a Holocaust survivor that is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation.
Through personal stories, expert guests, and historical and contemporary photos and film, the award-winning Stay Connected Live digital program demonstrates the relevance of Holocaust history today. Stories from Holocaust history provide enduring lessons that reveal the dangers of unchecked antisemitism and hate and remind us that individuals have more power than they realize. Our first 60 episodes have been viewed more than 15.5 million times with audiences tuning in from over 50 countries.

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Holocaust Survivors and the Long Shadow of Trauma

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Each artifact in our collection has a story to tell. The monthly series, Artifacts Unpacked, takes you behind-the-scenes to learn about the objects the Museum protects and how they keep alive the memory and experiences of victims and witnesses of the Holocaust.

Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Photograph

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Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Winter Gear

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Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Camera

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Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Velvet Dress

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Holocaust Artifacts Unpacked: The Uniform

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Today’s teens and young adults need the lessons of Holocaust history to guard against the harmful effects of antisemitic messages and misinformation. The Museum is rising to the challenges of today’s world and reaching young people with educational content like the videos you see here.

Kindness in Dark Times

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Choices on Kristallnacht

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A Family History Cut Short: Remembering Avigdor

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This Photo Hides a Darker Truth

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Josephine Baker: The Spy They Never Saw Coming

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Echoes of Memory provides survivors who volunteer at the Museum with a powerful outlet to share their experiences and memories—through their own writing. The Museum conducts guided writing workshops to strengthen the writers’ abilities to recount their experiences for the historical record. In these videos, survivors who have taken part in the workshop read their own essays. This is one more way that the Museum helps survivors—eyewitnesses to the Holocaust—to help new generations gain insight and understanding of Holocaust history from a deeply personal perspective. This program, originally inspired by the Leave-A-Legacy Writing Workshops developed by the Drew University Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study, has been facilitated since 2001 by Dr. Margaret Peterson. The writer’s workshop model she has employed prioritizes the voice and authority of each writer and allows the participants to support each other in telling his or her own story of survival.
An athlete's defiance in the face of Nazi oppression. A soldier's courage through captivity. A friendship across continents. The rescue of 50 children. A professor's plea for help. Each of the videos in this series tells a story that stands as testimony and lasts beyond a single lifetime. Each story is based on authentic letters and diaries that document firsthand accounts of the Holocaust, so that their truths shall never be forgotten. Behind every name is a story.

Gretel: An Olympian’s Dream

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Tony: A Soldier’s Journey

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Eleanor & Gilbert: A Couple’s Mission

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Marianne & Jane: A Pen Pal’s Story

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Franz: A Professor’s Plea

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The Eyewitness to History video series enables audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. Schools, civic groups, military bases, and other institutions can use these videos to incorporate survivor voices into their Holocaust remembrance events as well as other learning opportunities.
These films provide some foundational information about how and why the Holocaust happened. The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is making them available as a playlist for students, teachers, and members of the public who are unable to visit during the Covid-19 crisis. The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Germany’s Nazi regime, its allies, and their countless collaborators in countries across Europe.

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As we share and preserve the stories of Holocaust survivors, a question often remains: what happened in their lives after World War II? In "Next Chapter: Life After the Holocaust," we explore the passions of six individuals to see how they foster recreation, build community, and teach us about resilience.

Next Chapter: Series Trailer

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Next Chapter: Putting Down Roots

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Next Chapter: Fellowship Through Cinema

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Next Chapter: At the Heart of Antiquing

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Next Chapter: Propelling Forward

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Next Chapter: Finding Balance

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Through our comprehensive campaign, "Never Again. What You Do Matters," led by honorary chair Elie Wiesel, the Museum seeks to secure the resources to keep Holocaust memory alive as a force for change in today's world.

A Force For Change

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Turning Point for Holocaust Memory

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What You Do Matters

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The Power of Truth

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Preventing Genocide

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