On this page are audio file transfers from cassette recordings of Holocaust survivors and American Concentration camp liberators with connections to Minnesota. These audio interviews were created during the early 1980s through the Twin Cities Holocaust Survivors' Interview Project
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust
through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. Includes lesson plans and ideas.
In this unit, students explore a variety of resources-texts, images, sounds, photos, and other artifacts-to learn more about the Holocaust. Beginning with journal writings and a picture book to introduce the central issues, the unit focuses on student-centered inquiry. Students explore a range of print and non-print resources through extensive online inquiry activities. Progressing from individual work to a group learning project, the unit culminates in publishing the group's findings in topic-based newspapers.
"The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's oral history collection is one of the largest and most diverse resources for Holocaust testimonies in the world. The collection contains over 9,000 audio and video interviews. These testimonies enable students, researchers, and the general public to see and hear the first-hand accounts of those who experienced, witnessed, or perpetrated the events of the Holocaust."
Since 1981, Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed Holocaust survivors. The University's Mardigian Library has been the repository of these interviews. It has been our privilege to provide a forum for those voices, "listening ears," as one survivor notes, and the facilities to record the testimonies. As a University of distinction, the campus has demonstrated its dignity and character because of the respect it has accorded the tapes and the people who made them.
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