Media Resources
Many of the VTHM videos below and more can also be viewed on our YouTube page here.
The Courage to Remember: Installation and Impact - A mini-documentary exploring the installation of the Courage to Remember exhibit at the Fletcher Free Library. Discussion of the exhibit and its importance to the community with Debora Steinerman, president and co-founder of the Vermont Holocaust Memorial, and Barbara Shatara, Programs and Partnerships Librarian at the Fletcher Free Library. - March 20, 2022 (Courtesy: The Media Factory)
Speaker Presentation: Lamoille Neighbors VTHM Presentation. Debora Steinerman, VTHM president and co-founder shares her family story of survival and why our organization’s efforts are so important for Vermont’s students and citizens. — March 8, 2022 (Courtesy: Lanpher Memorial Library, Hyde Park, VT)
Leaving Memel: Refugees from the Reich
A personal video memoir, a small story tucked inside a much larger, darker tale that is quite relevant to events happening today. Documentary filmmaker, Fred Finkelstein, created a powerful film about his mother and her family, German Jews from Lithuania, and what happened to them when Hitler seized power. Appropriate for grades 8 and up. 42 minutes in length (title is clickable link to the Vimeo film)
Eli’s Town
Elliot Burg is a freelance photographer living in Middlesex, Vermont. His photographic essay Eli's Town recounts his 2017 trip to Ukraine to retrace the route that his great-grandfather Osias journeyed in 1881 from his hometown in Austria-Hungary to the Ukrainian village of Ozeran. It was in Ozeran that Osias' son—Elliot’s grandfather and namesake, Eli Burg—was born. Along the way, Elliot photographed the people he met; went in search of a local memorial to the Jews of Ozeran, who were murdered by the Nazis in 1942, including members of his great-grandmother's family; and interviewed the last living witness to the forced removal of the village's Jewish community.
Eli's Town can be viewed at https://momentmag.com/photo-essay-elis-town/ and on Elliot’s website at http://www.elliotburgphoto.com/elis-town.
Speaker presentation: K. Heidi Fishman shares her mother’s story of survival with Lamoille North Middle School students - November 12, 2021 (Courtesy: Green Mountain Access Television)
Speaker Presentation: On November 12, 2021, Debora Steinerman shared her family’s story of Holocaust survival with students at Lamoille Union Middle School in Hyde Park, VT. (Courtesy: Green Mountain Access Television)
“Why do we study history?”
Click on the image to experience VTHM speaker and author Heidi Fishman explain how she came to understand the importance of learning history:
(courtesy of CT Voices of Hope and Speak-up Storytelling: Oct. 25, 2020)
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2020.
Click on the image to experience VTHM co-founder Miriam Rosenbloom sharing parallels between rescuers in the time of the Holocaust and those during the current pandemic.
Click on image to watch Heidi Fishman share her mother’s story of how she survived the Holocaust:
Link: Hear Vermonter Henry Weinstock share his story of being a hidden child in Belgium.
(2014 interview courtesy of Story Preservation Initiative.)
Oral history interview with liberator Curtis Whiteway (1998)
Craftsbury Vermont resident, Curtis Whiteway, born in Newburyport, MA on November 3, 1925, discusses his draft into the United States Army in December 1943; his basic training in Fort Knox, KY and intensive training with Rangers; transferring to Camp Maxie, TX, where he joined the 99th Division and immediately went to England; crossing into France with his division and participating in several skirmishes with the Germans; fighting the Third Panzer Division, which helped to push American forces further into Germany through the Siegfried Line; fighting near Cologne, Germany and encountering several concentration camps; helping to liberate the few surviving prisoners at Ohrdruf; going south into combat after the arrival of the Red Cross; reaching Dachau 3-B and then liberating the Moosburg prison camp (Stalag VII A) in Germany, which had about 30,000 prisoners, including some American prisoners of war; going to the Landshut sub-camp of Dachau to meet up with English and Canadian troops; and his assignment after the war to work temporarily in Cherbourg, France. (Video Courtesy: USC Shoah Foundation)
Click on image to see VTHM on VT Public Access TV. Debora Steinerman and Miriam Rosenbloom share their family stories of survival. (2018)