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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Holocaust survivor testimony

A young man checks the numbers tattooed on the arms of Jewish Polish prisoners coming from Auschwitz, in Dachau concentration camp in late April or early May 1945, after the Dachau's camp was liberated by the US army on April 29, 1945. (ERIC SCHWAB / AFP)
January 27, 2025, 6:39 am
Searching for his mother, photojournalist Eric Schwab exposed horrors of Nazi camps
The Jewish former fashion photographer became a war correspondent after Paris was liberated, documenting the depravity of the Holocaust while on his deeply personal quest
By AFP
Manfred Goldberg, a Holocaust survivor, is interviewed in London, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
January 26, 2025, 4:13 pm
Manfred Goldberg remembers the ‘angel who was sent to save me’ in a Nazi labor camp
‘I never saw him again,’ says the 94-year-old, German-born Holocaust survivor of the man who advised him to lie about his age, sparing him the fate of his younger brother Herman
By DANICA KIRKA
Miriam Bolle, one of the oldest Holocaust survivors at 107 years-old, poses at her home in Jerusalem on December 23, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 26, 2025, 1:44 am
Holocaust survivors who began again in Israel tell their stories in the shadow of Oct. 7
The harrowing tales of survival and loss are all the more poignant when heard alongside experiences of the more recent Hamas atrocities ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27
By Michael Blum
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2024, 1:31 am
After reaching Israel days after Oct. 7, USC Shoah Foundation is now helping record it
The organization’s researchers gathered hundreds of witness testimonies after the massacre and is sharing them with Israel’s National Library while advising on forming a collection
By Matt Lebovic
The Centropa archive focuses on Holocaust survivors who remained in central and eastern Europe. (Courtesy)
June 14, 2024, 4:19 pm
Centropa archive documents Holocaust survivors’ entire lives – not just the Nazi years
US Holocaust Museum acquires trove of interviews with Jews who stayed in central and eastern Europe in hopes of fleshing out a lost 20th-century history as told by those who lived it
By Matt Lebovic
From left: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Hoss and Hans Jurgen Hoss meet at Anita's apartment in 'The Commandant's Shadow.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Presents)
May 30, 2024, 3:09 pm
True-life ‘Zone of Interest’: In documentary, Auschwitz head’s descendants meet survivor
‘The Commandant’s Shadow,’ out in US theaters this week, looks at coming to terms with the past from the perspective of victims as well as the family of notorious Nazi Rudolf Höss
By Rich Tenorio
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Dr. Arnold Clevs and former Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy at a Zikaron BaSalon event at Levy's home in Tel Aviv on May 1, 2024. (Shoshanna Solomon)
May 3, 2024, 8:19 am
At Holocaust commemoration in Eylon Levy’s living room, Oct. 7 atrocities loom large
The former government spokesman hosted survivor Dr. Arnold Clevs as part of the Zikaron BaSalon series ahead of an Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day suffused with recent tragedy
By Shoshanna Solomon
The front of James Fenimore Cooper Middle School, part of Fairfax County Public Schools (CC BY G. Edward Johnson, Own work).
March 18, 2024, 12:50 pm
US school district offers ‘opt out’ option for Holocaust survivor testimony
After Fairfax County Public Schools email states students can skip presentation, Jewish federation says it was only meant for Jews due to previous ‘bullying, teasing, taunting’
By ToI Staff
Mira Talalayevsky was 2 when her mother fled with her from the Nazis in Kyiv. On October 8, 2023, a Hamas rocket destroyed her apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. (Photo by Mishel Amzallag, courtesy International Fellowship of Jews and Christians)
January 27, 2024, 10:23 pm
Holocaust survivors relive past horrors as they recount Oct. 7 experiences
Several Jews who survived WWII were caught in the carnage of the Hamas massacre. They say they have an important perspective to share, though they don’t all believe the same things
By Deborah Danan
Zev Vilmos Klein sits on the sofa while his daughter shows a family photo in the film 'Endphase.' (Courtesy Sixpack Film)
July 30, 2023, 3:17 am
With ‘Endphase,’ local filmmaker brings to light 1945 massacre in quiet Austrian town
Hans Hochstöger grew up in idyllic Hofamt Priel never knowing that the SS gunned down over 200 Hungarian Jews there. Now he seeks to raise awareness of the village’s tragic history
By Rich Tenorio
Lydia Barenholz and Ruth Melcer, who attended Munich's post-war Hebrew high school together, are shown with some of the objects they contributed to the new exhibit, 'Munich Displaced. The Surviving Remnant.' (Daniel Schvarcz via JTA)
July 22, 2023, 10:36 am
Landmark exhibits shed light on post-Holocaust life in German displaced person camps
A collaborative exhibition between Munich’s Jewish Museum and its City Museum running through January 2024 tells the stories of tens of thousands in postwar limbo
By Toby Axelrod
Pick-Goslar survived to have three children, 11 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. (Eric Sultan/The Lonka Project via JTA)
June 19, 2023, 2:28 am
In new memoir, Anne Frank’s best friend tells incredible story of Holocaust survival
In ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank,’ the late Hannah Pick-Goslar talks about how she grew up with the future icon and their brief reunion at Bergen-Belsen during Frank’s last days
By Shira Li Bartov
Almanya Narula, Nyani Totty and Sheer Aviram in the West Coast production of playwright Wendy Kout's 'Survivors,' May 2023 (Photo: Katherine Kohl)
June 3, 2023, 6:03 am
Inspired by ‘Hamilton,’ diverse docudrama based on survivor testimony is touring US
In under an hour, ‘Survivors’ touches on Nazi racial laws, Kristallnacht, and the Kindertransport rescue. ‘The survivors in the play are warning us,’ says playwright Wendy Kout
By Matt Lebovic
Dugo Leitner, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, holds a balloon shaped like the Jewish star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear. (Erez Kaganovitz via JTA)
April 19, 2023, 9:50 pm
At German embassy in Israel, Holocaust survivors reclaim their stories through photos
Opening Wednesday, new exhibit ‘Humans of the Holocaust’ engages the public with striking and sometimes whimsical images of 25 people who triumphed over the Nazis by living well
By Deborah Danan
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