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These portraits capture 20 survivors, many of whom were children and teenagers during their time at the camp. Jadwiga Bogucka holds a picture of herself from 1944. Photos by Kacper Pempel/Reuters
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- In My Grandmother’S Kitchen
Poetry, Essays, & Short Stories by Children of Survivors and Our Parents. From Maxine Shoshanna Persaud, Toronto, Canada: Many years ago I wrote the following words into my diary on a night when my parents were having a particularly hard time coping with life. Life, not as we see it , but as seen through the eyes of Holocaust survivors. I could not...
By Izzy Nelken
Trying to grasp Elie Wiesel’s “Night” It’s an internal fight I read two pages, leave and come back imagine the gallows around someone’s neck Elie’s father was well respected it didn’t help him when he was “selected” whatever they had was taken away and there was nothing you could do or say My grandfather had a lot of clout but our entire family was wiped out he had a factory and property and bank accounts today, I am filled with doubts: a man works all his life to collect then, one day it is...
By Izzy Nelken
The ghosts of Auchwitz are chasing me again just like they did when I was ten I sat with in the kitchen with my mom trying to speak, I was quite dumb Tried to listen to what she had to say wished it was just another regular day and now its midnight and I am drunk smoked a cigar and smell like a skunk what is the meaning of life, I try to figure with the skills of a mathematician and all its rigor Menke Kalisch, Kopel Reich those are important figures in my psych I can feel them fight with all...
By Jackie Ruben
1. I am in my grandmother’s kitchen, inapartment 8B on Avenida del Libertador, Buenos Aires. It’s the late 1970s. I’m a child and I sit on that old blue table where my own mom once must have sat at my age to eat, as I will, a feast of “chicken paprikash” with “tarhonya” noodles, that old family recipe handed down for so many generations and which marries so well with that rich chocolate roulade, “kalacs” that my grandma has made for dessert.What do we talk about, as my grandma chops the onion...
Jan 27, 2023 · The trauma of Holocaust survivors has been widely studied and documented, but the impact their experiences have had on their children hasn't received as much attention.
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- Perlita Stroh
- '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.
Jan 22, 2020 · Estimates suggest that Nazis murdered 85 percent of the people sent to Auschwitz. Here are the stories of three who survived.
- Sophia Hollander
In this intimate, living-history project, AZPM presents 19 first-person accounts of the Holocaust from survivors living in Southern Arizona. Children of the Holocaust: Stories of...
Jun 1, 2022 · An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust.
