We Dared To Write

The Child Survivor of Buchenwald — Microshort Stories Episode 5

Seven years old at Buchenwald, Yisrael Meir Lau was kept alive by a Soviet prisoner of war and found by an American chaplain. He became Chief Rabbi of Israel.

He was seven years old when his mother pushed him toward his older brother on a deportation platform. His father, the last chief rabbi of Piotrków, was murdered at Treblinka after charging the family that the chain must not break. A Soviet prisoner of war and an American army chaplain helped keep the boy alive at Buchenwald. He became Chief Rabbi of Israel. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

Yitzchak (Part 1)

Zofia Radzikowska

Victor Affen

Four Photographs — Microshort Stories Episode 3

Alberto Errera hides a camera in a bucket of human ash inside Auschwitz-Birkenau and takes the only photographs of the gas-chamber killing process ever made by the victims themselves.

A prisoner hides a camera in a bucket of ash and takes the only photographs of the gas chambers ever made by the victims. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Boxer — Microshort Stories Episode 2

Salamo Arouch fought over two hundred boxing matches where losing meant death. He never lost a single one.

He fought over two hundred boxing matches where losing meant death. He never lost a single one. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Revival of Halacha After Liberation: Agunot, Marriage, Loss, and Halachic Responsibility

In the chaotic years after liberation, agunah cases were not theoretical, they were urgent and constant. Drawing on the postwar rabbinic work of his father, Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky, who served as Av Bais Din of Hanover and its environs, and on his own research and writing about that period, Mr. Menachem Lubinsky explores how communities confronted marriage, loss, evidence, and halachic responsibility when answers never came.

Opening the Aftermath: 1946 and the Moral Work That Followed

Dr. Ruth Lichtenstein, Holocaust educator and founding director of Project Witness, opens the conference by reframing liberation as the beginning rather than the conclusion of the Holocaust story. Drawing on decades of educational leadership and survivor testimony, she situates 1946 as the start of an enduring moral, pedagogical, and historical responsibility that continues to shape Holocaust education today.

Between Ruins and Renewal: Jewish Life in Poland 1945–1955

Dr. Kamil Kijek, historian of postwar Polish Jewry, explores Jewish life in Poland during the turbulent decade after the Holocaust. This session examines rebuilding amid destruction, political pressure, violence, and emigration, offering a nuanced portrait of a community navigating survival between hope and hostility.

The Jews of Italy During the Holocaust

Guided by historian Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, this documentary explores the complex and often overlooked story of Italian Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jews of Italy During the Holocaust reveals how centuries-old Jewish communities confronted persecution, deportation, and moral dilemmas under Fascist rule and Nazi occupation.

The Tragic Fate Of Greek Jewry During The Holocaust/

In this compelling documentary, historian Dr. Steven Bowman—a leading scholar of Greek Jewry and Holocaust studies—guides viewers through the devastating story of Greece’s once-flourishing Jewish communities. From the bustling streets of Salonika to the death trains bound for Auschwitz, The Tragic Fate of Greek Jewry During the Holocaust weaves survivor testimonies and rare archival footage to illuminate a largely overlooked chapter of Jewish history and the enduring legacy of those lost.

Help And Caring - Dr. Hindy Klein

Dr. Hindy Klein takes us through what it means to be second generation Holocaust survivors in the modern world.

Esther Farbstein: Hatzolah

Esther Farbstein is an Israeli historian, researcher, author, and lecturer

Nationwide Competition Of The Reichs Pogrom Night

Nationwide school competition

The Jews of Italy During the Holocaust

Guided by historian Dr. Natalia Aleksiun, this documentary explores the complex and often overlooked story of Italian Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jews of Italy During the Holocaust reveals how centuries-old Jewish communities confronted persecution, deportation, and moral dilemmas under Fascist rule and Nazi occupation.

The Tragic Fate Of Greek Jewry During The Holocaust/

In this compelling documentary, historian Dr. Steven Bowman—a leading scholar of Greek Jewry and Holocaust studies—guides viewers through the devastating story of Greece’s once-flourishing Jewish communities. From the bustling streets of Salonika to the death trains bound for Auschwitz, The Tragic Fate of Greek Jewry During the Holocaust weaves survivor testimonies and rare archival footage to illuminate a largely overlooked chapter of Jewish history and the enduring legacy of those lost.

We Dared To Write

A 60 minute documentary on the remarkable youth who kept diaries during the Holocaust

The Lens Reveals

Project Witness offers the viewer access to spellbinding documentary footage that sensitively and meaningfully transmits the pain and tragedy of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. The heroism of the ghetto’s spiritual leaders is highlighted and leaves the viewer moved and inspired.

Daring To Rescue: Untold Stories Of Jewish Heroism

Daring to Rescue: Untold Stories of Jewish Heroism During the Holocaust is one of the most riveting of the Project Witness documentaries. By recognizing the courageous actions of a few self-sacrificing individuals who put their own lives on hold, Daring to Rescue reveals to today’s generation the dedication of ordinary people who rose to extraordinary heights in their determination to save as many Jewish lives as possible during the Holocaust. This innovative, creative, and educational film is designed to pass on the timeless message: heroes are not born, they are made.

In One Split Second: The Destruction Of Hungarian Jewry

In One Split Second deals with the destruction of Hungarian Jewry seventy years ago. It has garnered much praise for its sensitive and accurate treatment of a difficult topic – the deportation and destruction of the Hungarian Jewish community with in the short span of 54 days. The upgraded efficiency of the Nazi death machine is meticulously analyzed and the film leans heavily on living testimony offered by survivors who lived through this period.

Rosja: Escaping Hitler Was Just The Beginning

Rosja: Escaping Hitler Was Just The Beginning Rosja is the chronicle of the bitter experiences of the more than 200,000 Jews who were deported to Siberia by the Soviets during World War II. Rosja is the inspirational history of many, many heroic individuals who braved bitter cold, gnawing hunger, virulent disease, and countless hardships but who, nevertheless, despite almost insuperable difficulties, demonstrated an unswerving commitment to Yiddishkeit from which we today can extract timeless lessons of faith. Rosja is their story. One out of three Jews sent to Siberian labor camps died because of the impossible conditions under which they were forced to work. Individuals who had never in their lives done hard physical labor had, for example, to learn how to chop down huge trees, cut them into logs, and facilitate their transport to nearby rivers for shipping, all in temperatures of 45 degrees below zero or lower. Rosja brings to life an era of Holocaust history that has not received as much attention as others. It will fill in the gaps about what life was like in Siberia under the iron fist of the Soviets.

The Untold Story: Sephardic Communities And The Holocaust

The Untold Story of the Sephardic Community and the Holocaust discusses the experience of Sephardic Jews. This moving film opens up new worlds of information about a topic that has been long neglected.

In The Footsteps Of The Giant

In the Footsteps of the Giant: The Life and Leadership of Harav Michoel Ber Weissmandl, zt”l. Heroes aren’t born, they are made. We can never know how strong we really are until we face the unimaginable. Rabbi Michoel Ber Weissmandl was such a man – a man who loved his fellow Jews, whose pain on their behalf was a defining aspect of his personality and whose efforts to save them overshadowed everything else in his life. Rabbi Weissmandl was a Jewish scholar and a leader who fought tirelessly for the lives of his beloved brethren. In Giant, we are fortunate enough to learn about an innovative and physically fearless hero whose final role as a beloved “father” to his orphaned survivor students was brought to an abrupt halt far too early.

Once Upon A Family: The Story of Polish Jewry

Once Upon a Family: The Saga of Polish Jewry presents the history of the 800- year-old Jewish community in Poland and the devastation brought upon it by the Holocaust. The documentary engages the viewer in a fascinating journey into the world of Polish Jewry, the magnitude and splendor of what had been its essence, and what life was like for families trapped in the vicious Nazi net.

Hidden: Jewish Children Concealed During The Holocaust

is the gripping saga of Jewish children concealed during the Holocaust. This film takes the audience on a fascinating, harrowing, and emotional journey through the fateful years of the war when tens of thousands of children took on new, unfamiliar identities in hope of surviving the German onslaught. It brings survivors back to their childhood homes in Poland for first-hand interviews and dramatic reunions with their “adopted” families. This a must-see for anyone who cares about our rich heritage.

Plunder and Profit Recovered Treasures

The Nazi Propaganda Machine

“The Nazi Propaganda Machine: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of the Camera” is a stand-alone independent unit suitable for a Yom Iyun, a special school assembly, or for schools that are interested in instituting mini-Holocaust programs. Educational video and lesson plan available. Appropriate for a high school Holocaust program.

Red White And Jew

In these stormy days we are all looking for answers to crucial questions about the future of America. This film examines examines the past 10 months highlighting the challenges caused by the latest wave of antisemitism and how different groups have responded. There is a special focus on the explosion of antisemitism in Ivy League schools and public schools which is a matter of significant concern and priority to all of us.

America And The Holocaust

Devorah's Hope

Devorah’s Hope is a dramatized documentary that tells the extraordinary true story of resilience, faith, and survival. Devorah Mostovicz’s idyllic childhood was shattered when her family was torn apart by the horrors of war—imprisoned, betrayed, and murdered. Against unimaginable odds, Devorah and her brother fought to live, navigating betrayal, hatred, and moments of unexpected humanity.

Spirit of Survival

Watching Spirit of Survival can inspire us to follow the lead of four individuals who, by baring their souls and sharing their pain, their hopes, and their everlasting faith with us, have gifted us with a treasure that will serve current and future generations. Each of the participants revealed that rod of steel in their spines; each of them had much to weep about, yet each of them faced the future with hope and built their own positive structure of faith.

Whatever It Takes

A Project Witness production, Whatever It Takes sheds light on the enthralling stories of four women, Mrs. Rachel Emanuel,Mrs. Gisi Fleishman, Mrs. Sara Lederman and Rebbetzin Chaya Miriam Schulmann, who emerged as true heroes during the Holocaust. Although these four extraordinary individuals came from different locations and diverse backgrounds, they shared the resilience, the determination, faith and the compassion that will serve as necessary sources of inspiration for our future generations. By focusing on their individual journeys, we humanize and personalize their experiences, thereby imparting a deeper understanding of the unimaginable sacrifices they made.

The Power Of The Niggun

“The Power of the Niggun: Jewish Music during the Holocaust” is a stand-alone independent unit suitable for a Yom Iyun, a special school assembly, or for schools that are interested in instituting mini-Holocaust programs.

Yitzchok Weiss

Yitzchak (Part 1)

Zofia Radzikowska

Victor Affen

Yitzchak Haberfeld

Yehudis Gurevich

Yashar Hirshaut

Yaffa Silberberg

William Stern

Yitzchak (Part 2)

Yvonne Lifshitz

Zalik Bernheim

Yossef Weiss (Part 4)

William Greenwald

Zev Krautwirth

Yossef Weiss (Part 3)

Yossef Weiss (Part 2)

Yosef Griffel

Yossef Weiss (Part 1)

Toby Eisenstein (Part 8)

Witness to the Witnesses: Dr Sharon Rais

How second generation Holocaust survivors influence the next generation

Help And Caring - Dr. Hindy Klein

Dr. Hindy Klein takes us through what it means to be second generation Holocaust survivors in the modern world.

Esther Farbstein: Hatzolah

Esther Farbstein is an Israeli historian, researcher, author, and lecturer

From Displacement to Distance: Why Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in Australia

Dr. Suzanne Rutland, leading historian of Australian Jewry, traces the political, social, and emotional forces that led thousands of Holocaust survivors to resettle in Australia. Her talk explores how survivors rebuilt their lives at the edge of the Jewish world and how their presence transformed Australian Jewish identity and national memory.

The Revival of Halacha After Liberation: Agunot, Marriage, Loss, and Halachic Responsibility

In the chaotic years after liberation, agunah cases were not theoretical, they were urgent and constant. Drawing on the postwar rabbinic work of his father, Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Lubinsky, who served as Av Bais Din of Hanover and its environs, and on his own research and writing about that period, Mr. Menachem Lubinsky explores how communities confronted marriage, loss, evidence, and halachic responsibility when answers never came.

Opening the Aftermath: 1946 and the Moral Work That Followed

Dr. Ruth Lichtenstein, Holocaust educator and founding director of Project Witness, opens the conference by reframing liberation as the beginning rather than the conclusion of the Holocaust story. Drawing on decades of educational leadership and survivor testimony, she situates 1946 as the start of an enduring moral, pedagogical, and historical responsibility that continues to shape Holocaust education today.

Between Ruins and Renewal: Jewish Life in Poland 1945–1955

Dr. Kamil Kijek, historian of postwar Polish Jewry, explores Jewish life in Poland during the turbulent decade after the Holocaust. This session examines rebuilding amid destruction, political pressure, violence, and emigration, offering a nuanced portrait of a community navigating survival between hope and hostility.

After Rescue: Kindertransport Children and the Long Road Beyond the War

Rabbi Aubrey Hersh, Holocaust scholar and educator, follows the postwar lives of Kindertransport children whose rescue did not mark an end to loss or trauma. This talk explores identity, belonging, survivor guilt, and the emotional legacy of being saved while families and communities were destroyed.

Freedom and Responsibility: A Torah Perspective on Liberation Eighty Years Later

Rabbi Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa, brings a Daas Torah perspective to the question of liberation. He explores freedom not merely as release from oppression, but as a lifelong moral and spiritual obligation, asking what Jewish tradition teaches about responsibility, memory, and ethical action eighty years after the Holocaust.

From What Was Written to What We Teach: Youth Diaries and the Work Beyond 1946

In this closing address, Israel B. Bitton, Deputy Director of Project Witness, reflects on the discovery of Holocaust youth diaries and their power as educational tools for a world born long after the war. Drawing together the conference's central themes of survival, rebuilding, memory, and responsibility, he explores how the words written by young people during the Holocaust continue to shape how we teach history, ethics, and empathy beyond 1946.

Eighty Years Later: What Liberation Gave and What It Withheld

Dr. Michael Berenbaum, world-renowned Holocaust historian and scholar of memory and ethics, examines liberation as both a moment of deliverance and a moral paradox. Eighty years on, he explores what freedom restored, what it could not repair, and how these unresolved tensions continue to inform Holocaust remembrance, justice, and education.

Returning From The East: Jewish Repatriation to the Soviet Union After the Holocaust

Dr. Eliyana Adler, historian of Soviet and East European Jewry, examines the little-known stories of Jewish survivors who returned to the USSR after the war. This session explores repatriation as a complex choice shaped by hope, coercion, ideology, and fear, revealing how postwar Soviet realities reshaped survival itself.

Upstanders & Bystanders

Protecting Our Religious Freedom

Utilizing Tools Of Democracy To Protect Our Religious Freedom.

The Day The Rabbis Marched

This talk explores the history and impact of the march by 400 Orthodox rabbis to the White House during the Holocaust. Speaker: Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, in Washington, DC and author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust and Jewish history.

Shailos U’tshuvos of the Holocaust

This talk provides educators with the tools to use the materials in diverse classroom settings. The material is designed for all levels of Mesivta Yeshivah boys and is a breakthrough in Holocaust education.

Voices From The Ghetto: Part One of a Two-Part Series

Learn about life in the Warsaw Ghetto and the tragic events of the summer of 1942. Of the many leaders who inspired the Jews of the Ghetto, and generations to come, was Rabbi Klonymus Kalman Shapira, the Rebbe of Piaseczno. Take a glimpse into greatness through the Rebbe’s writings, many of which were found after the war, buried deep in the rubble of the Ghetto. SPEAKER: Rabbi Eli Lefkowitz is a Rebbi in Monsey and the Director of the Mesivta Division of Project Witness.

Antisemitism Through History Timeline

Mrs. Schechter's Part Of The Spring 2025 Course

Liberation And Rebirth

Rabbi Yossi_Weiser - The Final Solution

Dr. Michael Berenbaum Witness To The Witnesses

The Child Survivor of Buchenwald — Microshort Stories Episode 5

Seven years old at Buchenwald, Yisrael Meir Lau was kept alive by a Soviet prisoner of war and found by an American chaplain. He became Chief Rabbi of Israel.

He was seven years old when his mother pushed him toward his older brother on a deportation platform. His father, the last chief rabbi of Piotrków, was murdered at Treblinka after charging the family that the chain must not break. A Soviet prisoner of war and an American army chaplain helped keep the boy alive at Buchenwald. He became Chief Rabbi of Israel. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Sultan Who Said No — Microshort Stories Episode 4

In Vichy-occupied Morocco, Sultan Mohammed V refuses to hand over his Jewish subjects — "There are no Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan subjects."

"There are no Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan subjects." In Vichy-occupied Morocco, Sultan Mohammed V refuses to enforce France's antisemitic laws against his Jewish subjects. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

Four Photographs — Microshort Stories Episode 3

Alberto Errera hides a camera in a bucket of human ash inside Auschwitz-Birkenau and takes the only photographs of the gas-chamber killing process ever made by the victims themselves.

A prisoner hides a camera in a bucket of ash and takes the only photographs of the gas chambers ever made by the victims. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Boxer — Microshort Stories Episode 2

Salamo Arouch fought over two hundred boxing matches where losing meant death. He never lost a single one.

He fought over two hundred boxing matches where losing meant death. He never lost a single one. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Forger — Microshort Stories Episode 1

Adolfo Kaminsky races to forge nine hundred identity papers for children marked for deportation.

An eighteen-year-old races to forge nine hundred identity papers for children marked for deportation. Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness.

The Little Giant of Vilna

The Little Giant of Vilna is an animated short telling the inspiring true story of Yitskhok Rudashevski, a courageous Jewish teenager from the Vilna Ghetto who documented life under Nazi occupation through his diary.

Nationwide Competition Of The Reichs Pogrom Night

Nationwide school competition