Watch Live | First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors
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On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, triggering
World War II. About a year later, 11-year-old Estelle Laughlin was among
the 400,000 Jews from Warsaw and the surrounding area forced into a ghetto
measuring just 1.3 square miles. She was one of the few children to survive
the Warsaw ghetto.
During our next First
Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, on the 82nd
anniversary of the invasion, Estelle will talk about her life as a Jewish
girl under Nazi occupation. Amid starvation and squalid conditions in the
ghetto, the Nazis began deporting the residents to the Treblinka killing
center in July 1942.
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Wednesday, September 1,
1 p.m. ET
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s YouTube page
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Estelle will reflect on her parents’ resolve and
resourcefulness to shield her from the unimaginable events surrounding
them. Watch live and ask Estelle a question.
Each episode of First
Person features a one-hour discussion with a Holocaust
survivor, facilitated by veteran journalist Bill Benson.
You do not need a YouTube account to view our program. After the live
broadcast, it will be available to watch on demand on the Museum's YouTube page.
First Person
is made possible through generous support from the Louis Franklin Smith
Foundation, with additional funding from the Arlene and Daniel Fisher
Foundation.
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Photo: Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin as a teenager (courtesy of Estelle Laughlin)
and as an adult, today. US
Holocaust Memorial Museum
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