The VHEC has video documented over 200 local survivors
since 1985 including concentration camp survivors, child survivors,
and those who survived in hiding or as partisans. Synopses are available
for most of these oral testimonies.
Robbie Waisman,
an Oral History
Robbie Waisman was fourteen years old when he was liberated from
Buchenwald concentration camp. His oral history was used as part
of the VHEC’s 1997 exhibit Open Hearts – Closed
Doors, the Journey to Canadadiscovery
kit and the Open Hearts –
Closed Doors on-line exhibit.