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of the Holocaust:
The Witnesses

Holocaust survivors who spoke at the VHRES Holocaust Symposiums

Speakers at the 2004 Symposium:
Lillian Boraks-Nemetz - Survivor of Warsaw Ghetto and the German occupation of Poland
See video of Lillian
George Brady - Survivor of Auschwitz
See video of George

 

Speakers at the 2003 Symposium:
Dr. Peter Gary - Survivor of Majdanek, Dachau & Bergen Belsen
See video of Dr Gary
Bronia Sonnenschein - Survivor of Auschwitz, Stutthof & Theresienstadt
See video of Bronia

 

Speaker at the 2002 Symposium:
Vernon R. - A Survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau
See video of Vernon

Speakers at the 2001 Symposium:
Hersch Z. - Lost his father’s family and 43 members of his wife’s family during the Holocaust

Isaac G. - A Survivor of Buchenwald
Noemi B. - Survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald

Speakers at the 2000 Symposium:

David E. shares his experiences via video clips
Judy C. shares her experiences via video clips

Speakers at the 1998 Symposium:
Robbie W. - A Survivor of Buchenwald
Bronia S. - A Survivor of Auschwitz

Speakers at the 1997 Symposium:
Peter P. - A Survivor of Auschwitz
Bill G. - Experiences In Hungry during WW II

Keeping the Memory - Eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust

Read personal interviews of survivors from Victoria, BC, Canada. The selections are taken from the book "Keeping the Memory", edited by Rhoda Kaellis. Survivors: Duifje Van Haren | Henri Hymans | Zofia Preisman

I Survived the 20th Century Holocaust
" Fate has placed upon the survivors of the Holocaust an unprecedented painful burden --that of revealing to the world the excruciating and most humiliating experiences of their lives. It is our goal to present herein a balanced view and representation of the Jewish and non-Jewish Holocaust as well as, in as much as possible, to present some "inside" stories, from Jewish and non-Jewish survivors alike..."

Witnesses

Dozens of real life accounts and stories. A sample:

• Another Angel for God, a story of friendship and survival, by Charles V. Ferree.
• The Night of Shattered Dreams by John Kurtz, a survivor.
• "Lest We Forget", a CD-ROM History of the Holocaust, including video clips, pictures from this important learning tool.

Marion's Triumph: Surviving History's Nightmare

"In 1938 the Blumenthals began their journey to the U.S. as refugees from Nazi Germany. Just before their scheduled departure from Rotterdam, the Germans invaded Holland, bombed their ship and they were trapped. What began was six-and-a-half years of horror in Hitler's camps, and an incredible story of near escapes, dashed hopes and tragedy. Finally they made it to America in 1948 using the tickets paid for ten years earlier..."

Divided Lives - The Untold Stories of Jewish-Christian Women in Nazi Germany

The book by Cynthia Crane "uncovers the hidden life stories of ten women, children of Jewish-Christian marriages, whose families were persecuted during Hitler's Third Reich. These women, the Mischlinge ("half-breeds"), suffered the onslaught of anti-Jewish laws that divided spouses, families, and friends. From the early Nazi years through postwar Germany, this compelling, personal chronicle reveals the secret horrors these women endured as they struggled to survive in a nation that had betrayed them."

Memoirs of Holocaust Survivors in Canada

" The project to collect unpublished diaries and memoirs written by Holocaust survivors in Canada was initiated some years ago by Professors Mervin Butovsky and Kurt Jonassohn. They thought it important that these documents be preserved as a valuable part of the historical record because their contents would differ in significant ways from interview testimonies." Published by the Concordia University Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is part of Manuscripts and Archives, at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.

A Warsaw Ghetto Diary On-line

Written by Halina Gorcewicz, this book is based on fragments of a diary she had kept while in the Warsaw ghetto. The memoir takes the story beyond the Warsaw ghetto, including the Warsaw insurrection in the summer of 1944 and her deportation to Stutthof.

 

Prisoner 88, The Man in Stripes

A biography by a Holocaust survivor. The book recounts three challenges: the challenge of a person imprisoned in Auschwitz. The challenge of a person who subsequently unsuccessfully tries to erase four-and-a-half years from his life, and the challenge of a person who, succeeding in synthesizing his life once more, finds himself alienating his compatriots, his co-religionists and his family.

Anne Frank & Me

"A site about a "hidden child" from the Holocaust. Irene Frish was born Irene Bienstock in Drohobycz, Poland (now Ukraine) and survived the Holocaust in hiding..."

Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor

This moving site begins, "Sometimes, I don't believe my own stories. Was I really caught twice by the Germans? Did I really miss a chance to kill a SS-man? Did I really hide for two months in a German Military Police compound? In the light of the dimmed memory those stories are so distant and still so painful..." Written by survivor Alexander Kimel

Voices from the Holocaust

Selected quotations and diary entries from those who were there.

Liberators Remember

"It is extremely important for Liberators and any other witnesses to the atrocities of the Holocaust to document their testimonies. We are building this Liberators' section in the Cybrary, and Chuck Ferree was the first to share his story."

Survivors of the Holocaust: The Ernest and Elisabeth Cassutto Memorial Page

These pages are dedicated to my parents, who by their faith and determination to live, survived one of the greatest genocides in human memory. After they experienced the events described herein, these two courageous people told their story to the world for two reasons: to share with others the faith their tribulations had given birth to, and also to raise the consciousness of their fellow human beings so that events like the Holocaust should never happen again.

The instructional objectives of this page are similar to the goals of its subjects:
1.To tell the story of two survivors so that their memories shall not die with them;

2.To inform others as to the events of the time period in which they lived;
3.To help raise a consciousness of acceptance and brotherhood that will help stamp out ignorance and prejudice, and
4.to illustrate the idea that the historical events described in the history books about the Holocaust actually happened, and they make up the experiences of real people.

 

Ghetto Fighters' House

A Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum.

Holocaust Literature Research Institute

"The role of the Institute is to search-out and collect survivor narratives. Established formally in 1996, the Institute currently holds 650 narratives from Dr. Goldschläger's personal collection. Dr. Goldschläger is also compiling an exhaustive and comprehensive annotated bibliography of witness accounts of the Holocaust, standing at close to 2,000 texts to date. In the form of a scholarly database, it will be an inestimable resource for researchers attempting to understand the Holocaust and an essential weapon against Holocaust denial and revisionism."

Stories of Holocaust rescuers

A bibliography of people who worked to rescue others from the Holocaust.

Jewishnet

This site is devoted to promoting discussions among the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

Survivors of the Shoah

"Founded by Steven Spielberg in 1994, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors all over the world. Interviews are catalogued and archived using breakthrough digital technology and will be made available via on-line, interactive networks to museums, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations and through educational documentaries, books and CD-ROMs. This is as impressive as you would expect from Mr. Spielberg."

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