Dachau prisoners (from the sub-camp called Allach) cheer the liberating US Army Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division of the USThird Army. The banner reads: "The Spanish Anti-Fascists Salute the Liberating Forces."

	"Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you. Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth."
	by Edward Yashinsky (Yiddish poet who survived the Holocaust only to die in a Communist prison in Poland) Ref: Lookstein, Haskel: "Were We Our Brother's Keepers?" New York: 1985.

III. Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors 

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	"Forget You Not"™ Project Auschwitz Survivors
1. A Minute Sample of Some Survivors of the Holocaust
Nobel Laureates Holocaust Survivors	The First Eyewitness of the Holocaust	Kindertransports Holocaust Survivors	USHMM Volunteers	Holocaust Survivors Living in Israel	Gay Survivors	Olympic Greats Holocaust Survivors
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z "My father was killed by Poles, but I was saved by Poles. It really shows that you can never generalize about people."   Eli Zborowski
2. Oral History Archives and Holocaust Survivor Testimonies				3. Photos of Holocaust Survivors at Liberation
4. Memorials and Celebrations to Life in the Shadows of Death and Destruction
"For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews." --Simon Wiesenthal--

 

 

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 1908-2005 <> Simon Wiesenthal,Who Helped Hunt Nazis After War, Dies at 96; Tirelessly Pursued Nazi Fugitives by Ralph Blumenthal <> An Obituary of Simon Wiesenthal by Hella Pick <> Simon Wiesenthal, 96, Legendary Nazi Hunter by Michael Berenbaum We Did Not Forget YOU: Editor's Condolences to the Wiesenthal Family .

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 Simon Wiesenthal: Holocaust Survivor and Famed Nazi-hunter see Simon Wiesenthal Center A Biography of Simon Wiesenthal (b. Dec. 31, 1908 - Sept. 20, 2005) Simon Wiesenthal Given an Honorary British Knighthood on June 18, 2004, in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity" Simon Wiesenthal Awarded with the US Medal of Freedom in August 2000 Other Honors Given to Simon Wiesenthal Israel Remembers Nazi Holocaust Hunter Simon Wiesenthal .

• Imre Kertész: Holocaust Survivor Wins Hungary's 1st Nobel Prize In Literature
  
  • Bio of Imre Kertész
    
  • A Literary Survivor
    
  • Imre Kertész: The Speech Before the Academy
    
  • The Last Word: An Interview with Imre Kertész
    
  • Nobel laureate gives first U.S. reading
    
  • A New movie "Fateless" based on Imre Kertész's semiautobiographical novel "Fateless"
    
• Walter Kohn: Holocaust Survivor Winning the 1st Nobel Prize in Chemistry for UCSB
  
• Elie Wiesel: Hiatt Memorial Dedication Address - May 11, 1979
  
  • A Short Biography of Elie Wiesel
    
  • More on Elie Wiesel from USHMM
    
  • Elie Wiesel
    --Winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
    
  • Elie Wiesel: Hope, Despair and Memory
    
    
•  Joseph Bau, Holocaust Survivor,
  a Renowned Israeli Artist and Wartime Hero
  (He Helped Escape More than 400 Fellow Jews and was among the 1,100 Jews saved by the Nazi Industrialist Oskar Schindler. His secret marriage in a Concentration Camp in Poland was immortalized in the "Schindler's List" movie)
  

  The Remarkable Story of Joseph Bau Drawings by Joseph Bau Joseph Bau's book, "Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?" Joseph Bau's Art Work Newspaper articles on Joseph Bau

Dr. Rudolf Vrba The First Eyewitness of the Holocaust: Alfred Weltzler and Rudolf Vrba On April 7, 1944, two Slovakian Jews, twenty-six-year-old Alfred Weltzler and twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz. They provided the first eyewitness account of the concentration and extermination camp to the western world, an account that set off the chain of events that led to the Nuremberg trial. Auschwitz Escapee Hoped to Warn Hungarian Jews The story of Rudolf Vrba -- Extract from Auschwitz and the Allies by Martin Gilbert     Alfred Weltzler

Pepi Schreier, 100, Oldest Auschwitz Survivor Defies Odds, Living in Israel to Tell Her Story

Lilly Zelmanovic (née Jacob)    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. [ please see, The Auschwitz Album ] [ and also, Oliver Lustig's Selection and Text Presentation of the Album ]

Bill Basch, Hungarian Holocaust Survivor of Buchenwald and Dachau Concentration Camps and, the Recipient of the13th Wallenberg Medal .   .

Mauthausen Holocaust Survivor Tibor Rubin, born in Hungary, Receives U.S. Medal of Honor  Tibor Rubin kept his promise to join the U.S. Army after American troops freed him from the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II. A Biographical sketch of Corporal Tibor Rubin, Korean War Veteran

Some Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust saved via the Kindertransports (Child Transports) 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. Ursula Adler Anne Berkovitz Harry Bibring Helga Carden Paul Cohn, German Holocaust Survivor saved via the Kindertransport of May 21, 1939 currently Astor Professor at University College London, UK. Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer) born August 15, 1924 in Freiburg, Germany saved through the Kindertransport of May 18, 1939 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> .   Ruth Amster Meador: My Sory Walter Reed, German Holocaust Survivor saved through the "Kindertransport" program Lori Segal, former Ohio State English professor and Kindertransport survivor Harry Themal's official German identify card. The J indicates he is a Jew. 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.)

Jack Adler, Holocaust survivor shares his story Jack Adler: Anti-Semitism Survives

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• Elias Aelion, 86, Holocaust Survivor from Salonika, Greece
  subject of the 1988 book , "A House by the Sea" by Rebecca Fromer
  
  

  • Inge Auerbacher, German Holocaust survivor of Theresienstadt (Terezin) whose life story is described in her two books "I am a Star- Child of the Holocaust "  and "Beyond the Yellow Star to America" Also she is the author of the book "Finding Dr. Schatz" that is available both in ebook format and paperback.

    
    

  • Sylvia Shertzer Aharon and her sister Etka, Romanian Holocaust Survivors that Survived the Ivashkovtsy Camp in Transnistria

    
    
  • The Personal Story of Gizelle Abrahmson as told by a Student
    
    

  • Sara Atzmon (Gottdiener), Hungarian Holocaust Survivor of Auschwitz living in Israel, Paints Her Memories of the Holocaust ===> see also  her website

    
    

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    Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932 - ), Romanian Holocaust Survivorof Transnistria living in Israel since 1946. [Writer and author of several books.] -----> See, his moving article "Always, Darkness Visible" written with the occasion of Auschwitz's 60th Year Anniversary of its Liberation. -----> See also, this Interview and -----> A Conversation with Aharon Appelfeld

    
    
  • Hermina Aussems, Holocaust Survivor Relives 60-year-old Nightmare
    

• The little girl Lore Baer saved by the Schouten family of The Netherlands
  
• Polish Catholic Holocaust Survivor: The True Story of Number 1067, Zygfryd Baginski
  
• Helen Bamber: Bearing witness to the Holocaust
  
  In 2001 and 1945...
  
• My Grandmother's Story, Sonia Bar
  
• Alex Bauer Tells His Story so the Holocaust Won't Be Forgotten
  

  	Halina Birenbaum, Auschwitz prisoner nr. 48693 Honored by the Polish Government

• Edith Hahn Beer: The story of a Jewish woman who married a Nazi officer to survive
  -----> see also, The Book Review of her story...
  
  

• Lodz Holocaust Survivors, from left, Herman Frank, Jack Beigelman and Nathan Burzinski, residents of Cleveland (USA), share their parallel experiences during the darkest days of the Holocaust

  
  
  
• Benjamen Bender: "I Was Liberated at Buchenwald on April 11, 1945"
  
  
• Liviu Beris of Romania, Survivor of Transnistria
  

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> Auschwitz survivor, Rabbi Lazlo Berkovitz: Days of Remembrance Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits, a Hungarian Holocaust Survivor, Says that Thriving Is Best Revenge for Nazi Inhumanity

• 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
  
  • "Life as Hope" by Halina Birenbaum
    
• 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
  

  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).

  
  
• The Orphaned Buchenwald Boys living now in Australia:
  Jack Cuttler, 78, Johnny Chaskeil, 76, Sam Silver, 77, and Jack Unikowski, 79
  
  

• Alan Caine: Holocaust Survivor Shares His Story with 7th Grade
  
  
• Stephen P. Casey [István Katona], Hungarian Holocaust Survivor living in Australia:
  My Story, 1944-45, Hungary to Buchenwald, Mauthausen and Back
  
  
• The Ernest and Elisabeth Cassutto Memorial Page: Survivors of the Holocaust
  
  

  	.	Holocaust survivor Elsa Chandler finds peace on a distant shore She married Howard Chandler, who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. They have four children and seven grandchildren.
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  		Riwka Cohen of The Netherlands Survived the Holocaust and moved to the United States. Other info: Her father was arrested as a hostage after a resistance attack, the day before her mother's birthday. Riwka went into hidding at a farm in the village of Hellendoorn (Netherlands) under the name of Marietje van der Velde. After the war she was reunited with her mother and sister. She never saw her father again. Source: http://www.oorlogsgetuigen.nl/nl/hoofdstuk_1/cohen/cohen.html

• Istvan Deák, Hungarian Holocaust Survivor: "The heroes of the Holocaust years were not those who obeyed the law, but those who were willing to break it."

  
  
•  Michel Depierre, French Holocaust Survivor from the Nordhausen Concentration Camp
  
  

• Tamara Deuel

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  "I have been able to transfer the horror of the Holocaust in my art. Every individual who survived that other world, has a duty to leave documentation behind so that future generations will remember and will not forget." Holocaust Survivor from Kovna, Lithuania and Israeli Artist Tamara Deuel .