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My Grandpa was born in 1930. We talked about everything from the start of WWII to him going on road trips with my Grandma and all of their kids. We even talked about who he voted for in the 1948...

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.

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

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

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

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...

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.

Kindertransport experience

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

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

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.

A Holocaust’s survivors story

Son of a holocaust survivor shares his life story

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

At just 12 years old, Edith Frankie’s life was turned upside down. She went from having friends to being called an ugly jew, having rocks and mud thrown at her, and being forced to wear the yellow star on all...

Trudy Lovell, 98 years old, talked about her experience during the Holocaust and her time spent at a concentration camp and her life after that.

WWII, kindertransport, England, refugee, Germany, Jewish

Gail tells the story of her relationship with her Jewish Heritage and the impact of meeting Elie Wiesel.

In this interview we talked about my moms family, past, future, goals, and life.

Nathan Ackerman interviews his grandmother in Walnut Creek, California. They talk about her childhood, his mother, and growing up Jewish during the Holocaust. They also talk about his grandfather, who died when he was 1, and about politics.

interview with holocaust survivor, Aviva Steinman

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

On January 10th 2016, I interviewed my 90 year old grandmother about growing up in Germany and escaping the Holocaust.