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[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 ...
Eva Mozes Kor (January 31, 1934 – July 4, 2019) was a Romanian-born American survivor of the Holocaust.Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under the direction of SS Doctor Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II.
The Illinois Holocaust Museum is the first Museum in the world to share the technology with the public at large. The project hopes to record ten survivors, five men and five women, who will reflect the diversity of the Holocaust experience, costing about $2 million initially and then $500,000 for each additional survivor who will be filmed.
A Holocaust survivor who hid in a cellar with her mother for nine months without light or heating says she will continue to educate people "as long as I have a breath in my body". Dorit Oliver ...
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ...
Before her death at 101, Lily was the oldest living Holocaust survivor in the Rochester area. For more than a decade Deborah Haber has been constructing a musical built partly around the life of ...
The thousand participants, including many Holocaust survivors, spent hours reading out the names of Dutch Holocaust victims. The demonstration and the participants' reactions to the name-reading led initiator Chaim Roth, together with Billy Leniado, to launch the "Every Person Has a Name" commemoration project to honor the memory of the victims ...
There are about 245,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living, according to a study by the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Most, 49%, live in Israel, while about 18% ...