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List of Holocaust survivors. A group of Holocaust survivors being met by Ernst Albrecht in Bonn. The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany 's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II.
Listen to or read Holocaust survivors’ experiences, told in their own words through oral histories, written testimony, and public programs.
Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa.
- 'It didn't just happen when Hitler came to power' "I mean we had, we lived with antisemitismus [antisemitism], you know it was nothing new to us, because we were born with it, it’s not as it just happened because Hitler came to power.
- 'This lorry with the children drove off and never seen again' "This one morning, orders – ‘get out, get out’ – and whatever. By then we only had a few bits belongings – you, we grabbed the belongings and lined up to march to Plaszow.
- 'That is an experience which will haunt me all my life' "When we came to the railway station in Linz, before we went, we were taken out, we were cuffed together, two and two.
- 'If you started to feel sorry for yourself you were a goner' "Eventually we were herded into what was to be our washing room. It was a huge barrack, with the water running, cold water I must add, from the, from the, from the, the top, there were men in already prison garb, which we never seen before.
Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names. The Museum’s Database of Holocaust Survivor and Victim Names contains records on people persecuted during World War II under the Nazi regime including Jews, Roma and Sinti, Poles and other Slavic peoples, Soviet prisoners of war, persons with disabilities, political prisoners, trade union ...
Henri Kichka despairs of the way anti-Semitism survived into the modern world in spite of the Holocaust. "Why make enemies of the Jews?" he says. "We have no guns, we are innocent.
Jan 22, 2020 · In January 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the camp to find 7,600 emaciated prisoners left behind, heaps of corpses and seven tons of human hair that had been shaved off the prisoners....
