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...
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...
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,...
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...
In Frank’s Holocaust survivor testimony, he recalls being born in Czechoslovakia, near the Hungarian border. His childhood was peaceful and centered around family and community. But in 1938, everything...
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...
Marie was born on April 8, 1936, in Brussels, Belgium, the youngest of three children in a family of Russian and Polish origin. Her early childhood was marked by...
Dr. Jack Saltiel was born in Salonika, Greece, into a Jewish community that would soon be devastated by the Holocaust. His survival was due to his mother’s extraordinary foresight...
Guitel recounts her childhood in Paris during the Second World War. She reflects on her family life, her neighborhood in the Marais district, and the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, during...
Today, in Paris, Jackie, born in Warsaw in 1924, shares her story. She arrived in France at the age of three and grew up in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. As...