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An Evening with Sami Steigmann: Holocaust Survivor and Motivational Speaker (Virtual)

A virtual evening with Sami Steigmann, co-hosted for a Rhode Island audience with Israel Brief and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel. His testimony and his E.M.E.T. framework went out live to the community over Zoom.

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  1. 00:00Welcome from Cheryl Dorchinsky and Maria Friedman
  2. 02:15Sami's story in two minutes
  3. 03:5144,000 camps, and the six death camps
  4. 05:18Living with the pain of the medical experiments
  5. 07:18A cameo in "Eleanor the Great"
  6. 08:23Choosing hope, and October 7
  7. 10:33The answer to Jew hatred is education
  8. 11:46Transnistria and the Romanian labor camp
  9. 15:15"I am not what happened to me"
  10. 17:15EMET: educate, motivate, empower
  11. 18:21Your questions: coping, and quitting cold turkey
  12. 20:50How he learned about the experiments
  13. 23:40When he knew his story had to be shared
  14. 27:45The German woman who saved his life
  15. 29:15Teaching the Holocaust to young children
  16. 31:41Education or indoctrination
  17. 34:49Why Jews need one voice
  18. 37:09The power of the media, and the No Fear rally
  19. 42:55Comparing October 7 to the Holocaust
  20. 46:27Faith after the Holocaust
  21. 49:10Holocaust education laws nobody enforces
  22. 55:47Lighting the seventh candle at Birkenau
  23. 59:18How to support Sami
  24. 1:00:34The Israeli Air Force and the Mirage
  25. 1:02:49Antizionism, and becoming a Zionist at six
  26. 1:04:25A Jewish policeman, Israel, 1961
  27. 1:07:22Jew hatred on campus
  28. 1:10:52To one person, you are the world
  29. 1:13:41Family, and his honorary grandchildren
  30. 1:17:28Kosher Duck Revolution
  31. 1:19:52Closing

Speaker

  • Sami Steigmann

    Sami Steigmann

    Holocaust survivor and motivational speaker

    Born in 1939 in what is now western Ukraine, he survived Nazi medical experimentation as a child in the Mogilev-Podolsky labor camp in Transnistria. Since 2008 he has spoken to more than 250,000 people about survival, memory, and confronting antisemitism.

AIC brought Sami Steigmann’s testimony to a wider audience on Zoom, in partnership with Israel Brief and the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel. He spoke about resilience, the responsibility of memory, and confronting antisemitism, and took questions live from across the country. The recording runs an hour and twenty minutes; the chapter list jumps to any part of the evening.

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to be.”

Sami Steigmann

In Partnership With

  • Israel Brief
  • Rhode Island Coalition for Israel

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