Berthe was born in Lyon, France, to Polish-Jewish parents who were active in the Resistance. In 1941, at just nine years old, her parents made the heartbreaking decision to...
Yolanda Engel (née Lebovics) was born in 1937 in Verőce, Czechoslovakia. As a young child, she moved with her family to Budapest, Hungary, where her life would soon be...
Denise was born on June 21, 1938, in Paris, France, the fourth of six children. In 1942, when Denise was just four years old, she remembers that her father,...
Judy was born in 1938 in Berehove, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), and grew up with one younger brother in a close-knit Jewish family. In May 1944, during the final deportation...
Rachel Epstein was born in 1932 in Saint-Quentin, in the north of France. When the war broke out, her father, a professional dressmaker, joined the French army to fight...
Saul Dreier was born in Kraków, Poland in 1925. Until the outbreak of World War II, he enjoyed a normal childhood. But in 1939, at just 14 years old,...
In Arie Holocaust Survivor Testimony, Arie reflects on the devastating impact of Nazi occupation on his childhood and family, describing the fear, uncertainty, and constant danger faced by Jewish...
In Celia Holocaust Survivor Testimony, Celia shares the painful memories of growing up as a Jewish child during the Holocaust, living in constant fear as Nazi persecution tore families...
In Toby Holocaust Survivor Testimony, Toby recounts the terror of living under Nazi persecution, the painful separation from loved ones, and the uncertainty of surviving as Jewish families were...
In Jozef Holocaust Survivor Testimony, he shares the heartbreaking story of being separated from his family during the Holocaust and the fear of surviving alone as a child under...