USC Shoah Foundation

Renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein officially left his home country of Germany in 1933 and renounced his citizenship after learning that the Gestapo had raided his Berlin apartment and his summer home in Caputh. An outspoken critic of the N**i regime, he became a target: his works were burned in 1933, and a bounty was placed on his head.

Einstein worked to save as many Jews from N**i persecution as he could, issuing affidavits to help Jewish refugees to immigrate to the U.S. and urging other influential figures to do the same. Various survivors in our Archive recall Einstein’s support and the role he played in helping them escape persecution.

During a period of forced labor in Capljina (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) Holocaust survivor Marion Horn remembers a small act of humanity by an Italian soldier.

Marion’s testimony was recorded by the USC Shoah Foundation in 1995.