Daily Archives: November 10, 2013

VOG Program held at USC as part of Kristallnacht remembrance

“Holocaust, The Creative Impulse”, is an undergraduate course at USC taught by Nick Strimple, where the course focuses on the rise of Nazism beginning in 1933, through the end of the war, where aspects of music, art and the media is explored, including how the Holocaust has been depicted through the post war years.  VOG presented “This Is Your Life, Hanna Bloch Kohner”, as the first example of a Holocaust survivor on american television. Julie Kohner spoke to 21 freshman and sophomore students about Hanna’s life through the war, the impact of the This Is Your Life program on Holocaust awareness, as well as the experiences of being a child of Holocaust survivors.

USC Holocaust, The Creative Impulse Nov 7