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  1. Here we present history with a human face: Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. See their family photographs. Consult our encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust. Holocaust Resources

    • 'It didn't just happen when Hitler came to power' "I mean we had, we lived with antisemitismus [antisemitism], you know it was nothing new to us, because we were born with it, it’s not as it just happened because Hitler came to power.
    • 'This lorry with the children drove off and never seen again' "This one morning, orders – ‘get out, get out’ – and whatever. By then we only had a few bits belongings – you, we grabbed the belongings and lined up to march to Plaszow.
    • 'That is an experience which will haunt me all my life' "When we came to the railway station in Linz, before we went, we were taken out, we were cuffed together, two and two.
    • 'If you started to feel sorry for yourself you were a goner' "Eventually we were herded into what was to be our washing room. It was a huge barrack, with the water running, cold water I must add, from the, from the, from the, the top, there were men in already prison garb, which we never seen before.
  2. List of Holocaust survivors. A group of Holocaust survivors being met by Ernst Albrecht in Bonn. The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany 's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II.

    Name
    Sex
    Birth
    Death (age)
    M
    ( 1924-12-11) December 11, 1924
    October 9, 2015 (2015-10-09) (aged 90)
    M
    ( 1910-07-02) July 2, 1910
    August 21, 1988 (1988-08-21) (aged 78)
    M
    ( 1889-11-17) November 17, 1889
    November 2, 1963 (1963-11-02) (aged 73)
    F
    ( 1895-02-11) February 11, 1895
    May 25, 1971 (1971-05-25) (aged 76)
  3. Survivors faced huge obstacles in rebuilding their lives after the devastation of the Holocaust years. Learn about some of the challenges they faced.

  4. Holocaust survivor David Faber speaks in 2006 about his experiences in nine different concentration camps between 1939 and 1945. After the war, many Holocaust survivors engaged in efforts to record testimonies about their experiences during the war, and to memorialize lost family members and destroyed communities.

  5. But he knows the story must be told. Henri is one of the dwindling handful of men and women who survived Auschwitz. The death camp the Nazis built in occupied southern Poland during World War...

  6. Jan 22, 2020 · Some 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and more than 1.1 million were killed.