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Title: U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the Days of Remembrance ceremony
Creator: Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
Date: 2001-04-19
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: President George W. Bush speaks at the Days of Remembrance ceremony to honor and memorialize the victims and survivors of the Holocaust during World War Two. Held in the Capitol Rotunda.

Title: 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Gerda Weissmann Klein recalls her Holocaust experience and her later life in America
Creator: Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
Date: 2011-02-16
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein reflects on her experiences at the hands of the Nazis and liberation by the Americans. She comments on her gratitude for the opportunity to become an American citizen and the meaning of freedom. Klein describes the foundation she and her husband started and the goals of their program, Citizenship Counts. Her remarks are made on the occasion of her receiving the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Title: Norbert Bikales, a Holocaust survivor, talks about his experiences
Creator: Bikales, Norbert
Date: 2001-10-30
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: Norbert Bikales, who as a child was one of 400 Jewish children saved from the Holocaust by the people of the tiny French village of Chabannes, talks about his experiences and reflects on the meaning of the village's efforts. Michigan State University Professor of Education Steven Weiland convenes the session. Dr. Kenneth Waltzer, Director of the MSU Jewish Studies Center, introduces Bikales and the film "The Children of Chabannes" which is screened during the session but not recorded. Bikales...
Show moreNorbert Bikales, who as a child was one of 400 Jewish children saved from the Holocaust by the people of the tiny French village of Chabannes, talks about his experiences and reflects on the meaning of the village's efforts. Michigan State University Professor of Education Steven Weiland convenes the session. Dr. Kenneth Waltzer, Director of the MSU Jewish Studies Center, introduces Bikales and the film "The Children of Chabannes" which is screened during the session but not recorded. Bikales answers questions from the audience. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library.
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Title: Holocaust survivor Maria Orlowski describes her survival experience in Poland
Creator: Orlowski, Maria
Date: 1998-09-28
Collection: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Description: MSU graduate and Jackson, Michigan resident Maria Orlowski describes her experiences as one of the "hidden children" or children who survived the Holocaust in Poland in hiding, while their parents and grandparents were killed. She recounts recent efforts to hold reunions of the hidden children in European cities and describes finally accepting her long denied and suppressed Jewish identity. Orlowski also reads a passage from her book, "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After...
Show moreMSU graduate and Jackson, Michigan resident Maria Orlowski describes her experiences as one of the "hidden children" or children who survived the Holocaust in Poland in hiding, while their parents and grandparents were killed. She recounts recent efforts to hold reunions of the hidden children in European cities and describes finally accepting her long denied and suppressed Jewish identity. Orlowski also reads a passage from her book, "Trains: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During and After World War II", which she published under the pseudonym Miriam Winter. Orlowski answers questions from the audience. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series.
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