Archived Video of a Dear Departed Friend of ETHS, Holocaust Survivor, Cipora Katz
Cipora Katz held a special place in her heart for the students and staff at ETHS. She came to the high school year after year, and told her story to packed rooms of people waiting on her every word. Her courage, inspiration, dedication to human dignity, and hopeful spirit moved everyone who ever met her.
Beatrice Muchman was born in Berlin, Germany and forced to flee to Belgium when the Nazis came to power. Fearing for her safety, her parents entrusted her to a Catholic woman. Eventually she was adopted by an uncle who had escaped to the United States. Ms. Muchman has written a memoir of her experiences as a young, often confused child growing up in constantly shifting circumstances. She is now a retired world language teacher living in Chicago.
Photographs from a Processing Facility: The Work of Tom Kiefer
Tom Kiefer is a professional photographer who worked as a custodian at an immigrant processing facility in an Arizona border town. He began photographing items that had been confiscated from the immigrants, and has created what the Skirball Museum calls “a poignant testament to the hardships of migration and a call to return to human decency."
Christine Munteanu from the Japanese American Citizens League talks about the experience of the Japanese American incarceration, and how this legacy has inspired Japanese Americans to stand up for the rights of other immigrant groups, particularly in today’s xenophobic climate.
"Migrants' rights advocate Dora Rodriguez visits photographer Tom Kiefer at his studio in Ajo, Arizona and shares her story of crossing the US-Mexico border as a nineteen-year-old in 1980. Rodriguez goes through his collection of items, once belonging to migrants, that were seized and discarded at the border, and gives context and meaning to many of them through the lens of her experience. As seen and featured in the exhibition 'El Sueño Americano | The American Dream'"