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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 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.
Holocaust. Resistance. Revival. The Jewish People during World War II and the Post-War Period (1939-1948) Study Guide edited by I. Altman and P. Agmon. - Moscow: Holocaust Foundation, p. 344. 2000. ISBN 978-5-89897-005-5. Yehuda Bauer. American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945.
Margot Cecile Heumann (pronounced HOY-man; February 17, 1928 – May 11, 2022) was a German-born American Holocaust survivor. As a lesbian, she was the first queer Jewish woman known to have survived Nazi concentration camps. When Heuman was ten years old, she and her younger sister were expelled from public school for being Jewish.
The film tells the story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia who traveled to Nazi Germany in 1939 and, with the help of the B'rith Sholom fraternal organization, saved Jewish children in Vienna from likely death in the Holocaust by finding them new homes in Philadelphia.
Leopold Rosner (26 June 1918 – 10 October 2008) was a Polish-born Australian musician. Rosner, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps during World War II by playing his accordion for Nazi officials.
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gives a broader definition of Holocaust survivors: "The Museum honors any persons as survivors, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.