"Forget You
Not"™:
H o l o c a u s t
S u r v i v
o r s a
n d R e m e
m b r a n c e
P r o j e c t
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T A B L E
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C O N T E N T S
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< iSurvived.org >
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< ForgetYouNot.org >
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Dachau
prisoners (from the
sub-camp called
Allach) cheer
the liberating US Army
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Mauthausen
survivors cheer the
soldiers of the 2nd
Armored Division
of the US Third
Army.
The banner reads:
"The Spanish
Anti-Fascists Salute
the Liberating
Forces."
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III.
Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors
1. A Minute Sample of
Some Survivors of the Holocaust
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"For
your benefit,
learn from our
tragedy.
It is not a
written law that
the next victims
must be Jews."
--Simon Wiesenthal
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1908-2005
We
Did Not Forget YOU:
Editor's
Condolences to
the Wiesenthal Family
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When
we come to the
other world
and meet the
millions of
Jews who died
in the camps
and they ask
us, "What have
you done?"
there will be
many answers.
You will say,
"I became
a jeweler."
Another will
say, "I
smuggled
coffee and
American
cigarettes."
Still another
will say, "I
built houses,"
but I will
say, "I didn't
forget you."
-- Simon Wiesenthal
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Dr.
Rudolf Vrba
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Alfred
Weltzler
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Lilly Zelmanovic
(née Jacob)
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18-year-old
Lilly Jacob was
deported with her
family, and most of
the Jews of Hungary,
in the spring of
1944. On the ramp at
Auschwitz she was
brutally separated
from her parents and
younger brothers;
she never saw any of
them again. She was
lucky and survived;
yet, she was not
always convinced of
the blessing of
having survived
totally alone,
bereft of family,
friends and her
world.
Unlike
all of the other
survivors, she was
granted a small
miracle. On the day
of her liberation,
in the Dora
concentration camp
hundreds of miles
from Auschwitz, she
found in the
deserted SS barracks
a photo album. It
contained, among
others, pictures of
her family and
friends as they
arrived on the ramp
and unknowingly
awaited their death.
It was a unique tie
to what once had
been, could never
return, and could
never be rebuilt.
It
was also, as we now
know, the only
photographic
evidence of Jews
arriving in
Auschwitz or any
other death camp.
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Some
Jewish Child
Survivors of
the Holocaust
saved via the
Kindertransports
(Child
Transports)
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In
November 1938,
following the
night of brutal
attacks on
Jewish homes
across Germany
known as
Kristallnacht
(night of broken
glass), British
refugee
organisations
persuaded the
British
government to
permit Jewish
children under
17 to come
temporarily to
Britain. Each
child's keep,
education, and
eventual
emigration had
to be paid for
by private
individuals. In
return, the
government
agreed to permit
refugee children
to enter the
country on
travel visas.
Parents were not
allowed to
accompany their
children.Between
December 1938
and September
1939, when war
began, the kindertransport
trains brought
around 10,000
children to
Britain. Many
would never see
their parents
again.
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Ursula Adler
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Anne Berkovitz
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Harry Bibring
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Helga Carden
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Paul Cohn, German Holocaust Survivor
saved
via the
Kindertransport
of
May 21, 1939
currently
Astor Professor
at University
College London,
UK.
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Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer)
born
August 15, 1924
in Freiburg,
Germany
saved through
the
Kindertransport
of May 18, 1939
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A
photograph of
the
nine-year-old
Grete Glauber in
the
'Fremdenpass' or
alien passport
issued by the
German Third
Reich which
allowed her to
migrate from
Austria to
England in 1939
as one of the
'Kindertransport'
children.
<movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/holocaust/holocaust.htm>
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Ruth Amster Meador: My Sory
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Harry
Themal's
official German
identify card.
The J indicates
he is a Jew.
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1938
- 1939
" In
deep gratitude
to the people
and Parliament
of the United
Kingdom for
saving the
lives of
10,000 Jewish
and other
children who
fled this
country from
Nazi
persecution on
the
Kindertransport "
(Plaque
placed on
September 16,
2003 at
Liverpool
Street
Railroad
Station In
London, UK.)
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Rabbi
Emeritus
Laszlo
Berkowits
didn't ask
"Where was
God?" after
his time in
the German
death camps.
The Falls
Church Rabbi
thinks a more
useful
question to
ask about the
Holocaust is
"Where was man?"
<washingtonian.com/about/archive/1996/9609contents.html>
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- Miriam Bercovici [nee
Cordoba] (b.
1923 - ) of Romania, Holocaust Survivor
of Transnistria
- Partial List of
Bialystok Jews that Survive the
Holocaust
------> see also The Memorial Pages for
the Bialystock Jews
that have Perished ...
- Halina Birenbaum,
Auschwitz prisoner nr. 48693 that
survived the Holocaust
- Ruth Bolliger (whose
grandfather, Otto Loewi, received the
1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology) and
Al Wiener, both Holocaust Survivors
talk with students on 2002 Holocaust
Rememberence Day
- The Story of Corrie
ten Boom of The Netherlands from her book The Hiding Place
- S. Bronia, a Polish
Holocaust Survivor Remembers her Past
- Julia Brüder (Brueder),
Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor from
Oradea, Romania,
emigrated to Israel in the 60's
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Note: Julia
Brüder (Brueder) is the
Editor's double cousin (her
father with the Editor's
father, Herman Brüder, were
brothers and, her mother was
sister with the Editor's
father). She was the only
relative, out of some 60, on
the Editor's father side
that survived Auschwitz and
the Holocaust. All three
siblings (Istvan, Eva, and
Rozsi Brüder) of the
Editor's father perished
during the transport to
Auschwitz (see under Bruder,
this Reference
Page from
JewishGen).
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- The Orphaned
Buchenwald Boys living now in
Australia:
Jack Cuttler, 78, Johnny
Chaskeil, 76, Sam Silver, 77, and Jack
Unikowski, 79
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Ernst Ludwig
Ehrlich, Holocaust Survivor
Owes Life to Cioma Schönhaus
-- a Passport Forger
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Max Ehrlich (1892-1944)
was one of the most celebrated
actors and directors on the
German comedy and cabaret
scene of the 1930s. His
brilliant career was brutally
interrupted by the rise of
Nazism that resulted in him
being deported in 1942 to
Westerbork concentration camp
in Holland. From there, in
1944, Max Ehrlich was
transported to Auschwitz where
he was gassed.
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Lucille
Eichengreen, German
Holocaust Survivor
(survived the
Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz,
Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen
to identify and testify
against her former Nazi
captors.)
DETAIL:
In 1925,
Lucille was born in Hamburg,
Germany and lived with her
mother Sala Landau, and her
father, Benjamin Landau. Her
sister, Karin, was born in
1930.
On October 27, 1938, her father
was arrested for the first
time, but returned later in
spring of 1939. On the same
day that World War II began,
her father was taken again,
but only his ashes were
returned in September 1941.
Lucille was 16
years old in 1941 when her
regular schooling ended after
being deported to the Lódz
Ghetto in Poland where she
remained for nearly four
years.
Lucille arrived
in Auschwitz in August1944 and
was later transferred to the
work camp, Dessauerufer in
October 1944. She was then
transported to the slave labor
camp in Neungamme in November
and December of 1944. There,
Lucille and other inmates
cleared bombed buildings and
shipyards until the long walk
to Bergen-Belsen in February
and March
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Rachel and
brother Leon Epstein saved from
the Holocaust
by a neighbouring Christian
family from France,
Suzanne and
Henri Ribouleau and their two
sons, Rene and Marcel.
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David Faber
witnessed the murder of his
parents, brother, and five of
his six sisters. When he was
finally liberated from his eight
concentration camps, he weighed
only 72 pounds. Despite these
horrors, David feels very
fortunate to have survived.
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- Harry
Faiwl with other
Holocaust Survivors from
Ebensee
[Mr.
Faiwl, originally from
Kalisz, Poland, imprisoned
in Warsaw ghetto,
Czestochowa ghetto -
Hassak labor camp, Bedzin
ghetto,
Auschwitz-Birkenau,
Swietochowice and Ebensee,
where he was liberated by
the U.S. Army in May 1945]
- Avrum
Feigenbaum: The Anguish
of "Liberation"
- Rena
Finder, Holocaust
Survivor With 8th Gade
Students
- Romanian
Holocaust Survivor from
Podul Iloaiei, Leizer
Finkelstein,
remembers
the 'Death Trains'
- A
Conversation with
Felicia Fuksman,
Holocaust Survivor
- Henry
Friedman: I Am No Hero
--Journeys of a
Holocaust Survivor
- Hans
Frankenthal, Holocaust
Survivor and Slave
Laborer, Victim of
Medical Experimentation
at Auschwitz
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- Dr. Robert Fisch: A
Holocaust Survivor that Teaches with
Art
- Viktor Frankl --
Holocaust Survivor and Famous
Author/Psychoanalyst
- Ella and Samuel
Freilich, Holocaust Survivors from
Czechoslovakia
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Ella
Freilich, the mother-in-law
of U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman,
died on August 6, 2004.
She was 87. Ella and her
husband, Samuel, fled
Czechoslovakia as the
Communists came to power.
They arrived in the United
States in 1949, a year after
their daughter, Hadassah,
was born. Hadassah and
Lieberman are now married.
Born in Rachov,
Czechoslovakia, Ella was the
youngest of four siblings.
In 1944, her family was sent
to Auschwitz, where her
mother and two sisters died.
She was liberated in 1945.
She later worked in Prague
and in 1947 married her
husband, a lawyer and rabbi
who also had survived a Nazi
labor camp. [AP]
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- The Foxman Family
whose son was hidden during the
Holocaust by a a Polish Catholic
Nursemaid
- Steven Frank: Face to
face with the Holocaust
- Rabbi Samuel and Ella
Wieder Freilich, Holocaust Survivors
from Czechoslovakia whose Daughter,
Hadassah Lieberman, is the wife of the Connecticut Senator
Joseph Lieberman of USA
- Norman Frejman (b.
1930 -) -- One of a Very Few Children
that Survived the Warsaw Ghetto,
Deportation to the Majdanek Death
Camp, and Slave Labor Camp in Germany
- Sala Garncarz, Polish
Holocaust Survivor
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It didn't seem
so at the time, but Sala
Garncarz was one of the
lucky ones. When the Nazi
invaded Poland in 1939, she
was a 16-year-old Jewish
girl living in Sosnowiec, a
town close to German border.
She volunteered to take the
place of her older sister,
Raizel, who had been ordered
to report to a Nazi forced
labor camp for six weeks.
But the six weeks stretched
into almost five years of
servitude for Sala, in seven
different camps, with a
pittance for wages or none
at all, filthy quarters and
an abundance of
typhus-carrying lice. Her
luck was that her
labor-worthiness as a
seamstress saved her from
Auschwitz, a main
extermination center, where
her parents and other family
members died.
The story of Sala (she is
alive and well at 82 and has
grandchildren with her
husband of 60 years, Sidney
Kirschner) is told in a
stirring new exhibition at
the New York Public Library,
which draws on more than 300
cherished from her family
and friends; and a diary she
managed to squirrel away
during her years of
servitude (for a while the
Nazis let forced laborers
send and receive mail,
provided it was written in
German). Crucial elements of
her saga --which she kept
under wraps for more than 50
years-- include the
protective support of an
older campmate,
Ala Gertner, later
hanged at Auschwitz for her
part in an uprising there; the
kindness of a local German
family to whose home she was
sent under guard to use its
sawing machine; her close
comradeship with female
workers at various camps;
her introduction to her
husband, then a G.I., at a
Rosh Hashana service after
the camps were liberated;
her postwar discovery of her
two surviving sisters; and
her emigration as a war
bride to the United States
in 1946.
[By Grace
Glueck, Art Listings, The
New York Times, March 10,
2006, p. B27.]
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- Chaya Gertzman,
Holocaust Survivor of Transnistria
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Ben Guyer, Auschwitz and Buchenwald
Holocaust Survivor:
In the Gombin Ghetto and
in the Nazi Camps
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Note: The
grandson Justin
Edelman of
Ben Guyer identified him
in the
famous Buchenwald photograph
of Margaret Bourke-White
posted below.
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 Nathan Kalman,
Auschwitz Holocaust survivor, dead at
94
- This is My Story:
David Katz, A Holocaust Survivor
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My
mother, an
ashen-faced skeleton
of her former self,
constantly repeated
the words which
became my life's
mission:
"You must live, you
must remember, you
must tell the
world!"
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- Zeb Kedem, Holocaust
and Schindler's List survivor speaks
out after 50 years of silence
- Joseph Kempler,
Holocaust Survivor Speaking with
Students
- Andre Kessler,
Romanian Holocaust Survivor: A walk in
his shoes ...
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- "I Cannot Forget", two
Poems by Alexander Kimel, Holocaust
Survivor
 Ephraim
Kishon, Hungarian Holocaust Survivor
and Renown Israeli Satirist, dead at
80
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Gerda
Weissmann Klein
(Born in
Bielsko,
Poland,1924),
Holocaust
survivor
liberated in
Czechoslovakia
by
U.S. soldier
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In
1939, Gerda's
brother was
deported for
forced labor.
In June 1942,
Gerda's family
was deported
from the
Bielsko
ghetto. While
her parents
were
transported to
Auschwitz,
Gerda was sent
to the
Gross-Rosen
camp system,
where for the
remainder of
the war she
performed
forced labor
in textile
factories.
Gerda was
liberated
after a death
march, wearing
the ski boots
her father
insisted would
help her to
survive. [USHMM]
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- Ruth Kluger, a
Professor at the University of
California-Irvine and Auschwitz
Survivor
Magdalena Klein
(1920-1946)
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The
youngest child
of a
middle-class
Jewish family
in Oradea,
Northwest
Romania, was
an eyewitness
to the rise of
fascism in
Europe and the
horrors of
World War II.
She saw and
felt the
vicious
attitudes of
the ruling
Horthy
Hungarian
government
(that annexed
Northwestern
Romania) at
that time as
her family was
first forcibly
removed to the
Jewish ghetto
in the city of
Oradea
(Hungarian,
Nagyvárad),
then deported
to the
concentration
camp at
Birkenau-Auschwitz.
Magda
survived, but
lost many of
her family
members, a
loss she could
not bear. She
became
increasingly
reclusive, and
in June 1946
she died of an
overdose of
medication.
The
poetic journal
Magda kept
during those
years was
translated
from Hungarian
into English
by her nice
Susan Simpson
Geroe under
the title "Pearls
and Lace."
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- Autobiography of
Freddie Knoller, A Holocaust Survivor
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- Eva
Mozes Kor and her
identical twin,
Miriam Mozes born in
Transylvania,
Romania.
*Survived
the deadly genetic
experiments
conducted by The
Angel of Death, the
infamous
Dr. Mengele, in
the deathcamp
Auschwitz during
1944-1945. In 1950
Eva and Miriam
received visas for
Israel and went
there.
Miriam died in 1993
from a rare form of
cancer. Eva,
currently lives in
Erre Hautte,
Indiana, USA and is
the founder of the CANDLES Holocaust Museum.
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- Edwin Langberg,
Holocaust Survivor, 1953 Princeton Univ.
Ph.D., and Author of the 2003 book "Sara's Blessing"
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The memory
of the collaboration between
the Judenrat and the Nazis
has tortured me for years.
How do I dare to call it
collaboration when the
Judenrat had presumably no
choice?
I dare because I saw what
happened and I experience
it.
I dare because I want to
understand how the Nazis
corrupted the Judenrat, left
the Jewish population
leaderless, and expedited
the Final Solution.
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- Dr. Dagmar
Lieblova, Terezin
and Auschwitz Holocaust
Survivor urges students not
to forget the Holocaust
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Four
Siblings from the Romanian
Lustig Family that Survived
the Holocaust
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- Tiberiu
Lustig (b. 1923 - ),
Holocaust Survivor from
Northern Transylvania
currently living in Israel
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- Eva
Czinczar [née Lustig] (b. 1924
- ), Holocaust Survivor
from Northern Transylvania
that survived
Birkenau-Auschwitz and
Kaiserwald, Dundaga,
Stutthof, and Malchow
concentration camps before
being liberated by the
Soviet Army.
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- Emilian
Lustig (b. July 28, 1928 -
), Birkenau-Auschwitz and
Dachau (Prisoner No.
11236) Holocaust Survivor.
Worked for
a while as a mechanic at
the Meserschmith Aviation
Plant in Augsburg and then
in Tutzing, Germany.
At the end, he contracted
typhus but was able in
three weeks to recover
from it.
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Tiberiu,
Eva, Oliver, and Emilian.
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... Genia then and
55 years latter
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Reunited
in New York in
1998 by the
Jewish
Foundation for
the Righteous
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... Julian then and
55 years latter
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There's a story from the
Holocaust about some death camp
inmates who decide to put God on
trial...
They prepare for several
hours, and then carefully argue
the prosecution and the defense.
No sooner do they find God
guilty for their fates...
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Samuel Broude,
Rabbi Emeritus of Oakland's
Temple Sinai, recalling that
story to describe one of his
longtime congregants, René Molho.
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"Out
of the 78 people in my family,
I am the only one
to survive."
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- Auschwitz Survivor
Frank Rothman Recalls His Suffering
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Joseph
Rovan, Holocaust Survivor
who, while in captivity at
Dachau, converted to
Roman Catholicism, died on
July 27, 2004, at
age 86
Rovan
was an historian, a member of
the French Resistance and an
adviser on Franco-German
relations to Presidents de
Gaulle and Chirac as well as
to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He
was awarded the Legion
d'honneur and the Ordre
National du Merite, the German
Order of Merit with Star, and
the Bavarian Order of Merit.
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Marcu Rozen
[March 20, 1930
-- Jan. 26, 2005]
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Romanian
Holocaust Survivor
of Transnistria
(Mogilev and
Sargorod)
Born
on March 20, 1930
in Dorohoi,
Romania, he is the
author of several
books on the
Holocaust in
Romania under the
Antonescu regime,
most recent one
published in 2004,
both in Romanian
and English, by
the Association of
the Romanian Jews
Victims of the
Holocaust under
the title: "The
Holocaust under
the Antonescu
Government."
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See
also, this Background
Information on
Romania and the
Holocaust
from
the United States
Holocaust Memorial
Museum
and
Transnistria:
Lists of Jews
Receiving and
Sending Support
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- Tania Marcus Rozmaryn,
Holocaust Survivor, Recalling Her
Ordeal
- Andrew Salamon,
Holocaust Survivor: Childhood In Times
of War
- Agnes Sassoon
Holocaust
Survivor of Dachau and Belsen-Bergen:
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I Can
Still Remember the Piles of
Corrpses...
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A
little Jewish boy, Joseph Schleifstein, sits on a
United Nations Refugee
Relief Agency truck in the
KZ camp Buchenwald. He
miraculously survived the
horrors of the Holocaust and
was four years old when
American troops liberated
Buchenwald in 1945.
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- A Conversation with
Leo Scher
- Charlene Schiff of Poland: My Story of Survival
- Joseph Schleifstein, a
5 year old Survivor of Buchenwald
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- Helen Schwartz's Story
... A Polish Holocaust Survivor
- Malvina Schwartz --an
Auschwitz Holocaust Survivor
- George Scott, Survivor
of Auschwitz Speaks at St. Jerome's
College
Helen Spitzer,
Auschwitz Survivor, and her lover
David Wisma, also an Auschwitz
Survivor, Reunite After 72 Years...
- Hidden Truth: The
Story of Rob Shealtiel, Holocaust
Survivor
 Herman Shine, 95,
Among the Few to Escape from Auschwitz
Freda
Schipper:
Witness to War
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- Freda and Mendel
Schipper, Polish-Born Holocaust
Survivors living in Canada
- Holocaust Survivor
Martin I. Selling of Phoenix, AZ, USA,
Pens Family Memoir
- Fred Spiegel, German
Holocaust Survivor, detailed his
experiences
in his book "Once the Acacias Bloomed
-- Memories of A Childhood Lost"
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 Fred Spiegel
was born in Dinslaken
Germany, in 1932, After
Kristallnacht he was sent to
live with relatives in
Holland, When the Germans
invaded Holland, Fred was
sent to three concentration
camps: Vught, Westerbork,
and Bergen-Belsen.
On April 13, 1945, he was
liberated by the Americans
near the River Elbe. After
the war, Fred was reunited
with his mother and sister.
Since then he has lived in
England, Israel, Chile and
the United States. Retired,
Fred now lectures at schools
and colleges about his
experiences as a child
during the Holocaust.
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.Sam Spiegel,
Holocaust Survivor
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"I
hope for the day when people
can practice their religion of
choice; when race and
discrimination is no longer an
issue.
.May the 21st
Century, which we have now
embarked, never experience the
horrors of the Century we have
just left behind.
.May we be
given the strength to build
together with others a world
of security, mutual respect,
and peace."..
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- Claude Spingarn, Irving
and Rachel Senor --Auschwitz and Dachau
Holocaust Survivors
- Edward Stankiewicz
tells tale of survival in WWII
- A Tribute to Helga
Stein Dead at 75, Holocaust Survivor
- Bart Stern (b. 1926 -
)Hungarian Holocaust survivor of
Auschwitz
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 Following the
German occupation of Hungary
in March 1944, Bart was forced
into a ghetto established in
his home town. From May to
July 1944, the Germans
deported Jews from Hungary to
the Auschwitz extermination
camp in occupied Poland. Bart
was deported by cattle car to
Auschwitz.
At Auschwitz, he was
selected to perform forced
labor, drilling and digging in
a coal mine. As Soviet forces
advanced toward the Auschwitz
camp in January 1945, the
Germans forced most of the
prisoners on a death march out
of the camp. Along with a
number of ill prisoners who
were in the camp infirmary,
Bart was one of the few
inmates who remained in the
camp at the time of
liberation.
He survived to
be liberated by hiding in the
camp even after many other
prisoners had been forced on a
death march in January 1945. [USHMM]
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- Holocaust Survivor
Klaus Stern Tells Students About
Horrors of Auschwitz
- Jack Sittsamer,
Holocaust Survivor and President of the
Holocaust Survivors of Greater
Pittsburgh
(see, Ref. 1 and Ref.
2: He Shouldn't Get Away with Murder )
- Max Steinmetz,
Holocaust Survivor recalls his
experience and survival at Auschwitz
before students
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Ceija Stojka in 1995
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Ceija
Stojka, a Romani Holocaust
survivor of Auschwitz,
Ravensbrück, and
Bergen-Belsen.
She made over 1,000 painting
depicting the horror of the
Holocaust.
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David
Stolier
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David
was the sole
survivor of the
ship "Struma" (see,
Ref. 1,
Ref 2,
and Ref. 3)
which sailed
from Constanta,
Romania on
December 12,
1941 to
Palestine. More
than 700 jews
were aboard. The
ship was
detained by the
Turks, who
refused to let
the passengers
in. The English
refused them
visa for
Palestine. The
ship was towed
back to the
Black Sea where
it was sunk by a
Russian
submarine. David
was hurled
overboard and
saved by a
commercial
vessel. He was
arrested by the
Turks but sent
to Syria after a
few months
imprisonment.
Later, David
became a member
of the Jewish
Brigade of the
English Army.
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- Laura Varon, a
Holocaust Survivor and
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Tom
Veres (b. 1923 -
), Hungarian
Holocaust
Survivor saved
by the deeds of
Raoul Wallenbnerg
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Ater
the Germans
occupied Hungary
in 1944, Tom was
ordered to work
in labor camps
and factories.
He escaped after
a few months and
decided to
contact the
Swedish
legation, where
he met Raoul
Wallenberg in
October 1944.
Tom stayed in
Budapest and,
using his
training in
photography,
became active in
Wallenberg's
efforts to
rescue
the Jews of
Budapest. He
made copies of
and took
photographs for
protective
passes
(Schutzpaesse),
and documented
deportations.
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Courtesy;
United States
Memorial Museum
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Paul Victor (photo c. 1952), Half-Jewish German
Holocaust Survivor of Buchenwald
(now residing in the
USA)
 Eva Marika Weinberger
(nee Cierer), Auschwitz Holocaust
Survivor, Living in Australia,
Recounts Her Ordeal
- Two Sisters That
Survived Auschwitz: Irene and Janka
Weiss
- Holocaust Surviver
Jack Weiss on the trail of his
father's Insurance Policy who perished
in Auschwitz
- Holocaust Survivor
Martin Weiss Carries the Olympic Torch
- Sonia Weitz: Holocaust
Survivor and Education Director of the
Holocaust Center, Boston North, Inc.,
Peabody, Mass., USA
Elaine Welbel: My name
was FOUR-SEVEN-ZERO-ONE
- Elliot Welles,
Director of the ADL Task Force on Nazi
War Criminals and a Holocaust Survivor
Faces A New 'Fuhrer'
- Walter Winter, Romani
(Sinti) Holocaust Survivor from
Germany that survived Auschwitz
David Wisnia,
Auschwitz Holocaust Survirer, Reunite
with His Lover, Helen Spitzer (Also an
Auschwitz Survivor) After 72 Years...
 
 Holocaust Survivor
Miriam Yahav (previously Merka
Szevach)
"A lot of
survivors, we feel guilty
we survived and our
families perished."
Fritz
Hirschberger
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Cited by Polish
President at Knesset
- Edward Yashinsky,
Yiddish poet of Poland who suvived the
Holocaust only to die in a Polish
Communist Prison inspires Artist Fritz
Hirschberger, also a Holocaust
Survivor
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Rivka
Yosselevska, Polish
Holocaust Survivor
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The
Yosselevska family led a
happy life in the village of
Zagorodski, near Pinsk,
highlighted by the births of
the children Chaya, Feige,
Rivka and a brother named
Moshe. Their father had a
leather goods shop and was
considered one of the
notables of the village. In
the summer of 1942 the
Einsatzgruppen arrived.
Along with her little girl,
father, mother, siblings,
relatives, friends, and
villagers, Rivka Yosselevska
was shot, naked, in a pit -
miraculously she survived.
During the Adolf Eichmann
trial in Jerusalem, on May
8, 1961, she bore witness
about what happened.
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http://victim.ww2.klup.info/
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- Eli
Zborowski, Polish Holocaust
Survivor
Chairman of
the American Society for Yad
Vashem
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"My
father was killed
by Poles, but I
was saved by
Poles,
It really shows
that you can never
generalize about
people."
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- Pierre
Seel, French
Homosexual that
survived the Schirmeck concentration camp
Pierre Seel is a
still living
Frenchman who was
deported to the
Schirmeck
concentration camp
in 1941. After the
war, in shame, he
hid and in fact
married and had
children. In 1982,
spurred by the
denouncement of
homosexuals as
"sick" by Msgr.
Elchinger, Bishop of
Strasbourg, Pierre
Seel went public
with his story. [http://victim.ww2.klup.info/]
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- Points of Departure:
Survivors of the Holocaust (now living in Israel)
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- Michael
Gilead - Born
Poland, 1925; deported to
Auschwitz, 1941; in Israel
since 1947; 5 children;
police officer.
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Survived a
forced labour camp,
following which he was sent
to Auschwitz, where he was
one of 16 out of 4,000
prisoners to survive the
death march of January 1945.
Later, in Israel, he
participated in the Eichmann
trial as part of the Israeli
police detachment, and as
assistant to Gideon Hausner,
the chief prosecutor.
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- Jenny
Rozenstain - Born
Romania, 1935; deported to
Mogilov ghetto in
Transnistria, 1944; in
Israel since 1950; 2
children; hairdresser.
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"I felt
terribly guilty for the
murders committed in my
family by the SS. They took
me by surprise when I was
playing outside the Mogilov
Podolsk ghetto. This sadist
took my little sister, who
was only four months old,
out of my grandmother's
arms, placed her on a stone,
and split her in two with an
axe. Then he killed my
grandmother, my aunt, and
five of my cousins. I felt
so guilty because until 1997
I never dared tell my story.
I was afraid that no one
would believe me. Now I have
broken my silence and I
weep, and so I release
myself from this terrible
burden of suffering which
has weighed on my conscience
all my life.'"
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- Yossi
Offer - Born
Romania, 1929; deported to
Auschwitz, 1944; in Israel
since 1946; 3 children;
airline pilot.
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"Exactly six
years after my liberation
from Buchenwald, on 12
April, 1951, the chief of
staff pinned on my chest the
Israeli Air Force pilot's
emblem. On the same spot
where, just a short while
before, I was forced to wear
the yellow star of David
that symbolized disgrace and
humiliation. I was so proud
to wear now the blue star of
David."
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- Ruth
Elias - Born
Czechoslovakia, 1922;
deported to Theresienstadt
and Auschwitz, 1942; in
Israel since 1949; 2
children; writer.
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"Our
tormentors tried to
dehumanize us, to kill every
part of our personality.
They had not reckoned with
our spiritual and
intellectual resistance. And
the Germans could not reduce
that to nothing...it was
hope that enabled me to
survive and then presented
me with the most precious of
all gifts: a family,
children, grandchildren, all
in a new homeland."
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- Benjamin
Anolik - Born
Poland, 1926; deported to
Vilna Ghetto, 1941; in
Israel since 1949; 3
children; teacher.
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Was saved
twice from certain death in
Estonia. Immediately after
the war he worked helping
surviving children and
orphans, continuing his work
as a member of the Ghetto
Fighters Kibbutz in northern
Israel. He returned to
Germany several times to
give evidence against Nazi
criminals and is today a
member of the International
Commission of Justice.
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Two
Female Hungarian Holocaust
Survivors that became Olympic
Greats
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Now in
2004
at the age of 83...
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and
then ...
at Foro Italico
(Rome) in 1954
for the World
Championship
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and in
1956 when
she fled Hungary for
Israel
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2. Oral History Archives and Holocaust
Survivor Testimonies
To
keep alive not only memory
but also its voices
is a noble undertaking.
- Elie Wiesel
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"…I still do
not want to talk about these
things. When I do, it is not
like reading a book, it is
having to live through it
again, and I have never
wanted to keep feeling the
misery of it. And I
particularly did not want my
children to know, especially
about the sexual parts. I
did not want to explain what
I had to do. It is not nice,
nor something that they have
to know. They can read about
these things…"
--
Anne
(Holocaust Survivor living
in Australia)
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The Living
Testify
"In
the field of Holocaust
literature, nothing is as
important nor as meaningful as
the personal accounts of those
who survived its nightmare only
to tell the tale." --Elie Weisel
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The people in
the above photos are Holocaust
survivors who now live on Moshav
Nir Galim in Israel.
Professor Moshe Davis
has recorded their Holocaust
stories in The Living
Testify.
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Testimonies
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- Ludwika
Fiszer's Chilling Story
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- Narrow
Escape to and from Norway
- Margrit's
Story
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- Testimony
of Mrs. Sidonia Mandel
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- From
Mielec to Sobibór: The
Testimony of Eda Lichtman
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A
collection of
over 4,300
videotaped
interviews
with witnesses
and survivors
of
the Holocaust
that is part
of
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Sterling
Memorial
Library, Yale
University,
New Haven,
Connecticut,
USA.
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USHMM
Catalog Search
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- An
interview with Lucille
Eichengreen
German-Polish
survivor of the Lódz Ghetto,
Auschwitz, Neuengamme &
Bergen-Belsen
[Source:
tellingstories.org - Oral
History Archives Project of
The Urban School, San
Francisco, CA, USA.]
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A candid
conversation with Leah Dudman:
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- An
Interview with William
Lowenberg
German/Dutch
survivor of Auschwitz,
Dachau - also slave laborer
within the Warsaw Ghetto
[Source:
tellingstories.org - Oral
History Archives Project of
The Urban School, San
Francisco, CA, USA.]
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- Gloria
Lyon, Auschwitz Holocaust
Survivor -- her story on
audio
(Gloria
describes her entrance into
Auschwitz and life within.
She describes how she
escaped from being sent to
the gas chamber and her
subsequent moves to
different camps. ) She is a
Czechoslovakian survivor of
7 camps including Auschwitz,
Bergen-Belsen, Beendorf and
Ravensbrück.
[Source:
tellingstories.org - Oral
History Archives Project of
The Urban School, San
Francisco, CA, USA.]
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- Karl Lyon
German
refugee who experienced the
rise of Nazism and returns
to Germany as an American
soldier to fight against the
Nazis
[Source:
tellingstories.org - Oral
History Archives Project of
The Urban School, San
Francisco, CA, USA.]
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- Freda
Rosenfarb Reider,
Austrian
child refugee who
experienced the Anschluss
and fled to the United
States in 1939
[Source:
tellingstories.org - Oral
History Archives Project of
The Urban School, San
Francisco, CA, USA.]
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Voice/Vision: Holocaust
Survivor Oral History Project
of the University of
Michigan-Dearborn
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Holocaust
Testimonies from
Polish Jews
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•
Biber A.
(Myslowice)
•
Maria
Adlerfligel
(Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Mrs. Auerbach
(Olkusz)
•
Grzegorz
Ajbeszyc
(Warsaw, Bedzin,
Otwock,
Sosnowiec,
Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Auschwitz)
•
Naftali Baron
(Sosnowiec, and
other towns)
•
Adela Neufeld
Boruchowska (Sosnowiec)
•
Samuel Brechner
(Sosnowiec,
Czeladz, Bedzin,
Auschwitz)
•
Jakob Bursztyn (Bedzin,
Sosnowiec)
•
Ilza Kupferminc
and Gerlic Chiel
(Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Zaglebie,
Auschwitz)
•
Cecylia
Chmielnicka
(Bedzin,
Sosnowiec)
•
Genia Singer and
Chaim Dunski
(Sosnowiec,
Bedzin,
Auschwitz,
Katowice)
•
Hela Fajgenblatt
(Wisau camp,
Dabrowa)
•
Rosa Felczer
(Sosnowiec,
Czarne Morze,
Strzemieszyce)
•
Rozia Felczer (Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Dawid Fischer
(Chrzanow,
Plaszow-Krakow,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Jerichem Frajman
(Strzemieszyce,
Bedzin,
Auschwitz)
•
Jakob Freiberger
(Bedzin,
Grodziec, and
surroundings)
•
Aron Gelbard
(Czeladz,
Bedzin)
•
Itka Goldkorn
(Sosnowiec,
Walbrzych)
•
Gertruda
Goldstein (Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Trzyniec,
Klettendorf
camp)
•
Abraham Grinblat
(Sosnowiec,
Myslowice)
•
Lejb Grinbaum
(Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Pinczow,
Auschwitz-Birkenau)
•
Joel Grünkraut (Zawiercie,
Sosnowiec)
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Jakob Freiberger
(Bedzin)
•
Ilse Freund (Gundelsdorf
bei Kronach
camp,
Oberfranken,
Flossenburg)
•
Eli (Emil)
Grunbaum
(Jaworzno,
Sosnowiec,
Graditz,
Chrzanow)
•
Lejzor Herman (Niwka,
Nivka,
Modrzejow,
Modshejov)
•
Henryk Herstein
(Krakow,
Wolbrom,
Plaszow,
Slomniki,
Dzialoszyce,
Proszowice,
Skala,
Zarnowiec,
Pilica,
Miechow, Belzec,
Wierzbno, Ostrow
Swietokrzyski,
Oswiecim,
Auschwitz,
Gliwice,
Buchenwald,
Sonneberg)
•
Regina Horstein
(Sosnowiec, -
workshops)
•
Lejzor Kac, Katz
(Sosnowiec,
Annaberg - Gora
sw. Anny,
Landeshut camp,
Birkenau,
Oranienburg,
Flossenburg)
•
Fela Katz
(Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Chrzanow,
Gliwice,
Slovakia,
Budapest,
Oswiecim-Auschwitz)
•
Fela Katz (Bedzin,
Auschwitz,
Sosnowiec,
Zaglebie,
Warsaw,
Czestochowa,
Zawiercie,
Zarki)
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Fela Katz
(around Cwi
Dunski, towns:
Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
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Fela Katz
(Sosnowiec,
Bedzin,
Zawiercie,
Poraj, Zarki,
Warszawa,
Oswiecim-Auschwitz)
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Izaak Klajman
(Bedzin)
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Sara Klein
(Chorzow,
Slawkow,
Strzemieszyce,
Sosnowiec,
Bukowno)
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Fela Kokotek (Sosnowiec,
Ochociec,
Chorzow)
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Roza Kozak (Sosnowiec)
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Nacha Krakowska
(Bedzin,
Myslowice,
Sosnowiec,
Trzyniec)
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Nacha Krakowska
(Bedzin,
Strzemieszyce,
Sosnowiec)
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Abraham
Krakowski (Sosnowiec,
Bedzin)
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Abraham
Krakowski (Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz-Birkenau)
•
Abraham
Krakowski (Sosnowiec-Pogon,
Katowice)
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Estera Krell
(Bedzin, Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Sosnowiec)
•
Friedrich
Kuczynski (Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Annaberg - Gora
sw. Anny)
•
Ilza Kupfermuntz
(Bedzin,
Annaberg,
Auschwitz)
•
Israel Leib -
Leon Gelberger
(Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz-Birkenau)
•
Eliasz Lemberg (Krakow,
Olkusz,
Trzebinia,
Chrzanow,
Blechhammer,
Auschwitz,
Jelenia Gora)
•
Anna Lerchenfeld
(Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Zaglebie,
Annaberg)
•
Genia Lewkowicz
(Dabrowa
Gornicza)
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Szlama Lewkowicz
(Zawiercie,
Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz-Oswiecim)
•
Regina Liberman
(Zawiercie,
Sosnowiec,
Kromolow, Poraj)
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Greta Majzels
(Bielsko-Biala,
Wadowice,
Sosnowiec,
Freiburg-Schlesien,
Egelsdorf,
Bersdorf-Friedeberg,
Kratzau)
•
Artur Markowicz
(Andrychow,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Israel Marymont
(Sosnowiec)
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Issacher
Mandelbaum (Trzebinia,
Chrzanow,
Jaworzno,
Szczakowa,
Auschwitz)
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Katarzyna Mincer
(Sosnowiec,
Zaglebie)
•
Katarzyna Mincer
(Bedzin,
Annaberg,
Sosnowiec)
•
Katarzyna Mincer
(Katowice,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Samuel Mittelman
(Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Bedzin,
Auschwitz)
•
N. Meryn, Meryn
family
(Bedzin)
•
Genia Molczadzka
(Bedzin,
Warszawa,
Zaglebie)
•
Jakob (Jakub)
Neufeld (Jaworzno,
Sosnowiec,
Chrzanow,
Trzebinia,
Bedzin)
•
Jakub Neufeld (Sosnowiec,
Bedzin, Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Auschwitz)
•
Jerzy Olszewski
(Sosnowiec)
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Dawid Pinkus (Siemianowice)
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Orbach Pinkus (Sosnowiec)
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Samuel Reifer (Chrzanow,
Sosnowiec,
Blechhammer,
Gräditz,
Faulbruck,
Markstadt,
Görlitz, Zittau,
Auschwitz)
•
Izrael Rozen (Bedzin,
Dabrowa,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Jakub Sandzer
/Sander/ (Circumstances
of the Bedzin
Jews during the
war)
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Hanka Szajer (Bedzin,
Annaberg,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Samuel Zborowski
(Strzemieszyce)
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Helena Zmigrod (Dabrowa,
Bedzin,
Sosnowiec,
Auschwitz)
•
Samuel Mitelman,
Manek
Szpigielman (Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Sosnowiec,
Bedzin,
Auschwitz)
•
Bronislawa
Sztylman (Pilica,
Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Sosnowiec)
•
Mojzesz Szwarc
(Bedzin,
Blechhammer
camp,
Klettendorf
camp, Sosnowiec,
Dabrowa
Gornicza,
Czeladz)
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Oskar
Schindler's List
Courtesy:
OscarSchindler.com
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- Memoirs of Holocaust
Survivors Living in Canada
- Interviews with 10
Holocaust Survivors Living in
Louisiana
Sigmund Boraks, Jeannine Burk, Felicia Fuksman,
Eva Galler, Henry Galler,
Anne Levy,
Dora Niederman, Leo Scher, Martin Wasserman, Shep Zitler.
- Testimonials From
Holocaust Survivors Living in
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Holocaust Survivors
from the Schindler's List ----------->
- Testimonies of
Survivors who were Children in the
Holocaust Years
- List of 50 People that
Have Survived Sobibor Concentration
Camp
- Keeping the Memory:
Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Survivor
Family Reunited
- Sibling Holocaust
Survivors Reunited after 60 Years
- Untold Tales:
Holocaust Survivor Stories
- Holocaust Survivors
Memoirs with References to Judenrat
- Other Survivor Stories
- Pictorial Gallery of
Holocaust Survivors
- One Survivor's
Testimony -- Holocaust Denial: Truth
or Hoax?
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3.
Photos of Holocaust Jewish
Survivors at Liberation
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Prisoners
at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau
death camp after
their liberation
on January 28, 1945.
(AFP)
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Three Polish Jews
liberated by the Red
Army
-- Auschwitz,
Poland, 1945.
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In
the afternoon of 27
January, 1945, Red
Army soldiers
entered Auschwitz.
They found 7,650
weak and sick
prisoners. The
Germans' hasty
retreat made it
impossible for them
to evict the last
prisoners and force
them onto a "death
march". The Russians
documented the
horrific scenes they
witnessed, in
thousands of
pictures and many
films.
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From
Yad Vashem Archives
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Jewish female
survivors from
Budapest, Hungary
-- Fenig, Germany,
April 1945.
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"Walking
corpses" was how a
US Army photographer
described the group
of 68 women from
Budapest, Hungary
found by soldiers of
the 3rd Battalion of
the US Army in the
Fenig camp, Germany.
They had been
starved and worked
to death in a
factory for aircraft
parts. The women,
several of them
dying, were
transferred to a
German Air Force
hospital for
treatment. [This
photograph was one
of those distributed
by the Allies for
explanatory
purposes.] -- From
Yad Vashem Archives.
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Surviving
children of the Auschwitz camp
walk out of the children's
barracks.
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Jewish women who
survived the slave labor camps.
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Women inmates at
Birkenau-Auschwitz after Soviet
soldiers liberate the camp on
January 27, 1945.
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Buchenwald
Survivors at Liberation in April
1945
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These four Jewish detainees were
photographed four weeks
after the arrival of US troops
in Buchenwald. [Gedenkstätte
Buchenwald]
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Prisoners of the
Block/Barrack 61 at liberation [AFP/Spiegel]
Margaret
Bourke-White's famous
photographs at the liberation
of Buchenwald.
(published
in the May 7, 1945,
issue of Life
magazine)
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Prisoners at liberation in
front of Block/Barack 62. [Gedenkstätte
Buchenwald]
 Surviving
children from Buchenwald at
liberation.
[Gedenkstätte
Buchenwald]
A
group of survivors in
Buchenwald at liberation.
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The
man in the middle
has lifted his
trousers to show
the effects of
malnutrition to
the photographer.
[U.S.
National
Archives]
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Following the
liberation, prisoners prepare
food in the Dachau camp.
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4. Memorials and
Celebrations to Life in the Shadows of
Death and Destruction
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Euphoria
at the Liberation of Dachau
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... their
stories
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January 27, 1945
-- the liberation of
Auschwitz-Birkenau by soldiers
of the Soviet Army
<http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/gallery/p538.htm>
/
<sundweb.com/Danmark/home.htm>
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Emaciated
Jewish
survivors, who
had been
confined to
the infirmary
barracks at
Ebensee, are
gathered
outside on
May 7, 1945,
the day after
liberation.
The survivor
at center-left
holding his
metal name tag
is Joachim
Friedner, a
21-year-old
Polish Jew
from Krakow.
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Some
of the most
difficult
photographs
from the
Holocaust were
those taken by
the Allied
liberating
forces upon
entering the
camps. The
liberating
soldiers were
met by masses
of corpses and
tens of
thousands of
prisoners who
were on the
brink of
death.
Yet,
for the Jews,
liberation did
not bring
unequivocal
relief. They
would not and
could not
return home;
there was no
home other
than bloody
graveyards and
rubble.
Emigration was
blocked by
strict
immigration
laws around
the world, and
the survivors'
demands to be
allowed into
Palestine were
resisted by
the British
Mandatory
authorities.
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Bergen-Belsen
Camp at
Liberation
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GENERAL TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
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I.
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Holocaust
Background
Information
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II.
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Heroes
and Heroines of
the Holocaust
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III.
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Faces
and Voices of
Holocaust
Survivors
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IV.
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Holocaust
Studies and
Related Topics
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V.
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The
Holocaust
Argumentative Page
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VI.
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Holocaust
Selected Readings,
Photos, and Items
of Interest
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VII.
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Holocaust
Selected Books
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VIII.
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Descendants
of the Holocaust
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IX.
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Holocaust
Related News
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X.
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Holocaust
Memorial Drives
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Suggestions for further
material to be included in here are welcome.
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Holocaust Remembrance,
Sanctuary, and Beyond ...
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Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project: "Forget You Not"™.
"Forget You Not"™..
Walter Kohn: Holocaust
Survivor Winning the 1st Nobel Prize
in Chemistry for UCSB
Elie Wiesel 
