Rodney Liber
Recorded in 1994, Sol was one of the original survivors to record his testimony for the then new Shoah Visual History Foundation. In the interview, Sol gives a first hand account of the brutality he faced during World War II in the Warsaw Ghetto, Treblinka, Majdanek and Buchenwald. He recounts his brushes with death and the loss of most of his family. This intimate portrait is a permanent record of his personal experiences, and is a memorial to those who did not live to tell their stories.
Recorded in 2010, for Determined To Succeed, Sol recounts his experiences for two high school students studying the holocaust. May Kim's parents moved to the US, from South Korea, before she was born. Victoria Lonberg is of jewish descent and is originally from the Ukraine.
A German documentary crew located Sol in 2001 to contribute eyewitness testimony for their profile of infamous Nazi SS officer Josef Blosche. Part of this complete interview is included in the finished film, Der SS Mann.
Seventy-five years ago today, on the eve of Passover, German forces entered the Warsaw Ghetto with intentions to liquidate. Through loudspeakers, Nazi troops called for Jews to emerge from their cramped quarters into the streets.
Nobody came. Soon after, a group of about 750 Jews, who had been stockpiling weapons, opened fire on the Germans, igniting the month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.The brave resistance in the face of impossible odds has belied the myth – long ago debunked – that Jews were passive victims to the Nazi killing machine during the Holocaust.
To honor those who stood up to their Nazi tormentors beginning April 19 of 1943, USC Shoah Foundation is profiling Sol Liber, who – until his death last month at age 94 – was among the last living members of the Jewish resistance that fought in the uprising.