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When the war broke out, Merry's father and brother were sent to concentrations camps where they were killed. She was sent to a separate camp from her mother, but managed to find one another later in Zakopane, Poland after the...

Yaffa is my Savta (Hebrew for grandma) who grew up in Haifa surrounded by family. She learned very important life lessons about kindness, positivity, and the importance of family from her parents who survived the Holocaust.

86 and 90 year old siblings, Max and Sonja reflect on their families’ choices and character as they recall their immigration from Germany to the United States in 1937.

Looking back at the life of a first generation child of Holocaust survivors

Claire Wahrhaftig (84) interviews Maria Visinti (95) about her experience during the Holocaust, the concentration camps and their liberation.

Looking back at the life of a first generation child of Holocaust survivors

We talked about money, the births of Johanna’s children, the holocaust, meeting her husband Bernard Saper, ambition, and more.

Miriam, a Polish Jewish woman, survived Auschwitz and the Holocaust . She talked about her experiences in an interview with her granddaughter, Haley.

My grandma Trude was eleven years old when she and her parents escaped from Austria in the early 1940’s, on one of the last boats to the U.S. Her entire extended family perished in the concentration camps except a couple...

Jill Sharfstein (72) interviews friend and fellow congregant Nancy Fisher (77) about her experiences as a member of Central Synagogue and her work interviewing Holocaust survivors for the Shoah Foundation.

Son of a holocaust survivor shares his life story

How the Holocaust affected me even though I was born in Chicago after World War II.

Johnna tells parts of the stories of leaving Vienna, leaving Manchester to the United States, and how she ended up with the name Johanna Franklin.

In this interview, I speak with my oma about how it was growing up in Germany and how the Holocaust affected her.

Vera Rubin (86) speaks to her daughter Laurie Blackmon (62) about her immigration story during the Holocaust and her experience in America.

Kindertransport experience

Paulette Terwilliger (nee Paulette Forst) was born to a young Jewish couple in France during the height of World War II. Now a resident of Fearrington Village, she spoke with fellow resident John Eckblad about her family’s wartime experience. In...

Friends and colleagues, Rita Blank (71) and Barbara Goldstein (63), reflect on how being children of Holocaust survivors has affected their lives and perspectives and discuss their work at the Holocaust Education Resource Council.

One Small Step conversation partners Robert "Bob" Adler (70) and Sara Kelemen (29) talk about nondelusional optimism, listening, Jewish heritage, family, community, and anarchism.

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Lev Raphael tells his friend Melissa Ingells about growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors and becoming a scholar and author on the subject

Caroline, 98, sat down with Annette to share her story about surviving the Holocaust. She was 13 when Hitler came into power. Looking for a way out, she was one of 300 who were allowed to go to Palestine, because...

Eva was eight months old when Hitler come to power. Her father was part of the resistance and fled with her and her brothers to Marseille, France then on to Lyon where he continued to fight for the resistance. Her...

In this interview, conducted in November 2019 in Piedmont, California, Sage Gilbert (13) interviews her paternal grandmother, Rhona Gilbert (71), sharing stories from Rhona’s life all across the world.

Kate Chesser (15) interviews RoseAnn Gerson (57) on her experience of being a daughter of holocaust survivors and growing up as immigrants in rural Minnesota.