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All programs are FREE and open to the public.

Due to security precautions, please allow extra time prior to arrival for unexpected delays entering the building.

The 2009 Season of First Person was made possible by generous support from the Louis and Dora Smith Foundation.

Program hosted by Journalist Bill Benson.

 

 

 

 

First Person — Conversations with Holocaust Survivors


First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors. These eyewitness accounts unite personal experience with history in a way that is extraordinary in its immediacy and power. Each hour-long program is presented as a live interview with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions.

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Sign language interpretation is available at every program.

First Person programs are held on Wednesdays from March-August. In April, May, June, and July programs will take place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays of each week.

The programs are also available as a podcast series. Listen here.

  1. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 5
    Martin Weiss »

  2. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 6
    Inge Katzenstein »

  3. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 12
    Nesse Godin »

  4. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 13
    Gideon Frieder »

  5. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 19
    Charlene Schiff »

  6. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 20
    Alfred Traum »

  7. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    May 26
    Gerald Liebenau »

  8. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    May 27
    Manya Friedman »

  9. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 2
    Esther Starobin »

  10. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 3
    Morris Rosen »

  11. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 9
    Susan Taube »

  12. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 10
    Jacqueline Mendels Birn »

  13. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 16
    David Bayer »

  14. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 17
    Louise Lawrence Israels »

  15. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 23
    Helen Luksenburg »

  16. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    June 24
    Fritz Gluckstein »

  17. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    June 30
    Gerald Schwab »

  18. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 1
    Julius Menn »

  19. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 7
    William Luksenburg »

  20. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 8
    Regina and Sam Spiegel »

  21. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 14
    Frank Liebermann »

  22. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 15
    George Pick »

  23. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 21
    Estelle Laughlin »

  24. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 22
    Manny Mandel »

  25. Tuesday, 1 p.m.
    July 28
    Helen Goldkind »

  26. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    July 29
    Livia Shacter »

  27. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 5
    Catherine Liner »

  28. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 12
    Izak Danon »

  29. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 19
    Haim Solomon »

  30. Wednesday, 1 p.m.
    August 26
    Henry Greenbaum »