1998

SNCAT To Air Testimonies of Children Holocaust Survivors

An estimated 1.5 million children were slaughtered in the Nazi Holocaust. An emotionally charged new program, "The Shuffle of Little Shoes Left Behind," is scheduled to air eight times in November on Sierra Nevada Community Access Television.

This program will present interviews with four of the children who were meant to die in concentration camps, yet survived against all odds. The program was prepared with the help of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies at the University of Nevada.

The broadcast schedule for the 80-minute program on SNCAT Channel 16 is: today at 4 p.m. and midnight, Wednesday at 10 p.m., Thursday at 4:30 p.m., Friday at 12:30 a.m. and 10 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m. and Monday at 10 p.m.

Children targeted for extermination in the Holocaust included those of Jewish, Gypsy and Slavic origin, those whose parents were regarded as political or religious opponents of the Nazis and those afflicted with physical or mental disabilities.

One of the best-known is Anne Frank, whose diary of her experiences hiding with her family in Amsterdam before being caught and transported to Auschwitz stands as a symbol for the youngest and most defenseless victims of the German genocide.

The four interviewees, "The Shuffle of Little Shoes Left Behind" are Sonia Levitin, an award-winning author of more than 30 children's books; Dr. Deborah Vietor-Englander, a literature professor teaching at a German university; Dr. Guy Stern, a literature professor at Wayne State University; and Dr. Lauren Nussbaum, an Oregon resident who knew Anne Frank and her family.