“These are the things that helped me survive” | Survivor Kurt Messerschmidt | USC Shoah Foundation 

“To find the balance between hope and reality is very, very important.”
Jewish Holocaust survivor, Kurt Messerschmidt, was born in Werneuchen, Germany in 1915. In his USC Shoah Foundation testimony, Kurt discusses hope, faith, peace, and music - and the role they played in his will to survive.
Kurt’s testimony has been integrated into many of USC Shoah Foundation’s educational programs, particularly his detailed account of the Kristallnacht Pogrom; an organized pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria that occurred on November 9-10, 1938.
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