CCMLibGuides: Library Information: Holocaust/Nie Weider

Nie Weider program at CCM

Eric Katzenstein survived Kristallnacht during the Holocaust in Germany. As a student at CCM, he met fellow student Phillippe Dumoulin, who recorded Katzenstein's story in his film “Nie Weider” (Never Again.) On November 5, 2015, Dumoulin returned to CCM to present this film to the college community in commemoration of the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

Maud Dahme speaks at CCM

Holocaust survivor Maud Dahme was hidden in the Netherlands as a child in order to escape the Nazis. Legacy Project program at CCM, November 12, 2014

Holocaust and survivor resources online

Personal Histories
Survivors share their experiences, recorded by the United States Holocaust Museum
Kristallnacht
Learn about the "Night of Broken Glass" in words and photographs
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
Find information about people persecuted under the Nazi regime. Search for individual names or view historical documents.
A People's History of the Holocaust and Genocide
History and stories from photos, survivors, liberators, with links to books, art, video and podcast

CCM Library resources - survivors and witnesses

We are Witnesses : Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust by Jacob Boas, editor; Forward by Patricia C. McKissack
The end of the world will soon be here" / David Rubinowicz -- "Long live youth!" / Yitzhak Rudashevski -- "My name is Harry" / Moshe Flinker -- "I want to live!" / Éva Heyman -- "I must uphold my ideals" / Anne Frank.
Behind the Secret Window by Nellie Toll
The author recalls her experiences when she and her mother were hidden from the Nazis by a Gentile couple in Lwów, Poland, during World War II.
In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke; as told to Jennifer Armstrong
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
The Liberators by Michael Hirsh
America's witnesses to the Holocaust.
The Survivor by Terrence Des Pres
An anatomy of life in the death camps.
My Child Is Back! by Ursula Pawel
In this work, the author relates her experiences in Germany from her birth in 1926 to the start of a new life in the US after the World War II.
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
ISBN: 9780141014081
The first and only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, MAUS is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him. Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story.
The Hidden Child
DVD
Documentary focusing on the life of Maud Dahme, one of the thousands of Jewish children who were hidden by Dutch Christians from the Nazi's during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
My Knees were Jumping
DVD
Filmmaker Melissa Hacker's mother, Ruth Morley (Academy Award nominated costume designer for The Miracle Worker), was one of the over 10,000 children who were saved in the Kindertransport movement during the Holocaust.