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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. There is no universally accepted definition of the term, and it has been applied variously to Jews who survived the war in German ...
[1] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) gives a broader definition: "The Museum honors as a survivor any person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and/or political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of ...
Arek Hersh (Herszlikowicz - הרשליקוביץ׳) was born in Sieradz, Poland on 13 September 1928. [1] He was the son of a bootmaker for the Polish army and a homemaker. [2] At the age of eleven, following Nazi Germany 's invasion of Poland, he was taken to his first concentration camp.
Angela Orosz-Richt (born December 21, 1944) is a Holocaust survivor. [ 1] Of several thousand babies born at the Auschwitz complex, [ 2] she is one of the few who survived to liberation. [ 3] Her testimony has led to the 21st century convictions of two former Nazis.
There were 58 known Sobibor survivors: 48 male and 10 female. Except where noted, the survivors were Arbeitshäftlinge, inmates who performed slave-labour for the daily operation of the camp, who escaped during the camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943. The vast majority of the people taken to Sobibor did not survive but were shot or gassed ...
Inge Auerbacher. Born. (1934-12-31) December 31, 1934 (age 89) Notable works. I am a Star. Inge Auerbacher (born December 31, 1934, in Kippenheim) is a German-born American chemist. She is a survivor of the Holocaust and has published many books about her experiences in the Second World War. [1]
Eva Fogelman is an American psychologist, writer, filmmaker and a pioneer in the treatment of psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust [1] and co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspectives on the Interview Process. [2]
Alice Herz-Sommer. Alice Herz-Sommer, also known as Alice Herz (26 November 1903 – 23 February 2014), was a Czech-born Israeli classical pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. She lived for 40 years in Israel, before emigrating to London in 1986, where she resided until her death, and at ...