Régine, born in Paris in 1934 to Polish parents, shares her story. Her parents, originally named Novo Polsky, changed their name to Novor after arriving in France.
Bernard recounts his childhood in Paris after his family fled antisemitism in Poland. In 1942, his family narrowly escaped the Vel d’Hiv roundup after receiving a warning just in...
Born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1936, Yaacov was just six years old when his father was deported to Auschwitz and his family was torn apart. Rescued by the Belgian...
Julia Salomón de Cohen was born in 1935 in Pristina, in what was then Yugoslavia. She was still a young child when the Holocaust shattered her world. At the...
Experience Paquita's holocaust survivor testimony, a remarkable first-hand account. Paquita was born in Paris, France in 1933. There, she lived with her parents and her brother until 1940, when...
Freddy Schreiber was born in Vienna in 1932. He was just six years old when Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, abruptly ending his childhood. Almost overnight, friends turned against...
Arie Birnbaum was born in Poland in 1930. His childhood was abruptly shattered on September 1, 1939—the day World War II began—when, just before his tenth birthday, his father...
In Rosa Holocaust Survivor Testimony, Rosa recounts the extraordinary story of how she survived as an infant during the Holocaust after being hidden inside a bag and secretly carried...