Do individuals previously targeted by genocide become more supportive of other victimized groups? How are these political lessons internalized and passed down across generations? To answer these questions, we leverage original survey data collected among Holocaust survivors in the United States and their descendants, Jews with no immediate family connection to the Holocaust, and non-Jewish Americans. We find that historical victimization is associated with increased support for vulnerable outgroups, generating stable political attitudes that endure across generations. Holocaust survivors are most supportive of aiding refugees, followed by descendants, especially those who grew up discussing the Holocaust with their survivor relatives. An embedded experiment demonstrates the steadfastness of these attitudes: unlike non-Jews or Jews without survivor relatives, survivors' and descendants' views toward refugees do not change after reading an ingroup- versus outgroup-protective interpretation of the ``never again'' imperative. Histories of victimization can play an ameliorative role in intergroup relations.

Compared to other Jewish communities in Greece, the community of Volos had much less Holocaust victims. This is mainly due to the fact that many Jewish families fled and found shelter at the mountainous villages of Pelion. This research, during which 9 testimonies were recorded, sought to record their experience while they were in "self-exile" at Pelion and upon their return back to the city.

Starting in June 1944, 11 concentration camps were erected in the Landsberg/Kaufering region (about 60 kilometers west of Munich). The camps all were named Kaufering with a number and were satellite camps of Dachau. Until the end of the war 23,500 almost exclusively Jewish prisoners were forced to work on three huge construction sites for aircraft production facilities (project “Ringeltaube”). More than 6,500 people died in these camps; 3,500 people which were unable to work anymore were transported to Auschwitz and other camps and were mostly murdered immediately. The Kaufering concentration camps were freed on April 27, 1945. The Visual History Archive of the USC Shoa Foundation has 591 Interviews of Holocaust survivors who mention Kaufering in their interviews. As part of the seminar “Computational Social Science” at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich (Winter Semester 2019/20) 25 students transcribed parts of a total of 234 of these interviews. The students were asked to transcribe the interview parts that include accounts about the concentration camps in Kaufering. Interviews were transcribed in seven languages (88% English). Overall 276,126 words have been transcribed. During class, the transcribed interviews were used for text analytical studies.

In this article, we propose a representational model to map the platial elements of the recorded testimony of one Jewish survivor of the Holocaust in Italy. The starting point for the design of the representational model is a definition of place as constituted by the triad of location, locale, and sense of place. The model allows for the comparison of testimonies and narratives of the Holocaust or other genocides from potentially any number of survivors, at various geographic scales of analysis, and organized chronologically. The model could be applied to place-based historical narratives on a number of topics, as long as they are similarly structured chronologically and geographically.

This project consists of fifteen interviews: thirteen interviews with survivors of the uprising on 14 October 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp, one interview with two Polish locals and one with a survivor of the uprising in the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau.The interviews of the Sobibor survivors were filmed in 1983 and 1984. During this period the trial against camp commander Karl Frenzel took place in the German city of Hagen. Jules Schelvis, himself a Sobibor survivor, attended the trial as a correspondent for the newspaper Het Vrije Volk. He was accompanied by Dunya Breur (†2009), an authority on Slavonic languages, who was following the trial for a film production company.Survivors came from America, Israel, Brazil and Australia to testify during the trial. Schelvis and Breur filmed these survivors using video equipment they bought themselves. Schelvis operated the camera and Breur conducted the interviews. Some interviews were recorded later in the home of Schelvis in Tricht. Schelvis and Breur travelled to the Russian city of Rostov on Don to interview Alexander Pechersky and Arkadij Wajspapir.He and Dunya Breur conducted additional interviews with two Polish people from the Sobibor area and one survivor of the revolt in the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------De dataset bestaat uit dertien interviews met overlevenden van de opstand die op 14 oktober 1943 uitbrak in vernietigingskamp Sobibor. Daarnaast zijn interviews te zien met twee Poolse omwonenden en een overlevende van de opstand in het crematorium van Auschwitz-Birkenau.De interviews variëren in lengte van tien minuten tot twee uur en zijn Engels en Nederlands ondertiteld.De interviews zijn afgenomen in 1983/84 door Jules Schelvis m.m.v. Dunya Breur voor zijn onderzoek naar vernietigingskamp Sobibor.In vernietigingskamp Sobibor (Oost-Polen) zijn ongeveer 170.000 joden uit heel Europa omgebracht. Ruim 33.000 van hen kwamen uit Nederland. Nog geen vijftig gevangenen hebben de oorlog overleefd. De meesten van hen ontsnapten tijdens de opstand die op 14 oktober 1943 uitbrak.Deze collectie bestaat uit dertien interviews met overlevenden van Sobibor. Soms emotioneel, soms afstandelijk vertellen zij over hun door de oorlog verstoorde leven, de mensonterende omstandigheden in het kamp, hun ontsnapping en hun leven na de oorlog. De leider van de opstand vertelt gedetailleerd over de voorbereiding en uitvoering van de massale uitbraak. Ook zijn interviews te zien met twee Poolse omwonenden van het kamp en een overlevende van de opstand in het crematorium van Auschwitz-Birkenau.