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The documentary, which premiered on HBO in 2013 on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was narrated by Mamie Gummer and Alan Alda. Some of those who were rescued were interviewed for the film. Aged from five to fourteen, they were senior citizens living in the United States and Israel when the film was made. [4]
Jewish Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust [48] Helen Lewis: June 22, 1916: December 31, 2009: 93 Jewish May 1944 – January 1945 Dancer who trained in Prague. Left Auschwitz on a forced march to Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945. [49] Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz: November 5, 1923: 101 Jewish Author ...
The term "Hidden Children" or "Hidden Children of the Holocaust" refers to children, mainly Jewish, who were "hidden" in some way to prevent them from being caught and most likely murdered by the Nazis. Many such children survived by being placed within non-Jewish family, and then raised as-if a member of that family.
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. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945.
The Ovitz family was a family of Hungarian Jewish actors/traveling musicians originating from present Romania, who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Most of them were dwarfs . [ 1 ]
The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors, created in 1981 by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to document the experiences of survivors and assist survivors and their families trying to trace missing relatives and friends, includes over 200,000 records related to survivors and their families from around ...
Holocaust survivor Susanne DeWitt reflects on the spike in antisemitism in Berkeley, California — her home of over six decades, and now, a place where Jewish hate has gone unchallenged in public ...
The destruction of Jews in the USSR during the German occupation (1941-1944). Collection of documents and materials. Yitzhak Arad. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1991. p. 424. ISBN 978-965-308-010-2. Holocaust. Resistance. Revival. The Jewish People during World War II and the Post-War Period (1939-1948) Study Guide