List of Holocaust survivors - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

survivors who went on to achieve a measure of objective notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied

Military occupation

Military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory passes to a hostile army. The territory then becomes occupied territory.-Military occupation and the laws of war:...

by the Axis powers

Axis Powers

The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...

during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of the survivors on this list lived through the war in Nazi concentration camps

Nazi concentration camps

Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled. The first Nazi concentration camps set up in Germany were greatly expanded after the Reichstag fire of 1933, and were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the regime...

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Babbitt, Dina Dina Babbitt Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt was an artist and Holocaust survivor. A U.S. citizen, she resided in Santa Cruz, California....	F	(86)
Mušič, Zoran Zoran Mušic Zoran Mušič was a Slovenian painter. He spent half of his life living and working in Italy.-Life:Zoran Mušič was born in a Slovene-speaking family in Bukovica, a village in the Vipava Valley near Gorizia, in what was then the Austrian County of Gorizia and Gradisca...	M	(94)	Slovenia
Olère, David David Olère David Olère was a Polish-born French painter and sculptor best known for his explicit drawings and paintings based on his experiences as a Jewish Sonderkommando inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.- Life :Olère studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, and upon completion...	M	(83)	Poland

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Clary, Robert Robert Clary Robert Clary is a French-born American actor, published author, and lecturer, best known for his role in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes as Corporal LeBeau.-Early life and career:...	M	France
Le Beau, Bettina	F
Lowens, Curt Curt Lowens Curt Lowens is a German actor of the stage and films, and a survivor and resistant of the Holocaust.-Life and career:...	M	Germany
Polanski, Roman Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...	M	Poland

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia Alicia Appleman-Jurman Alicia Appleman-Jurman is a Polish-American memoirist and has spoken out about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story....	F	Poland
Auerbacher, Inge Inge Auerbacher Inge Auerbacher is an American chemist of German origin. She is a survivor of the Holocaust and has published many books about her experiences in the Second World War.- Life :...	F	Germany
Barasch, Werner	M	Germany
Beck, Gad Gad Beck Gad Beck is a retired educator, author and gay Holocaust survivor.-Early life:Beck was born in Berlin, Germany, along with twin sister Margot, to a Jewish father and German mother who had converted to Judaism. The family lived in a predominately Jewish immigrant section of the city...	M	Germany
Begley, Louis Louis Begley Louis Begley is an American novelist.-Early life:Begley was born Ludwik Begleiter in Stryj at the time part of Poland and now in Ukraine, as the only child of a physician...	M	Ukraine
Brady, George	M	Czechoslovakia
Collis, Zoltan Zoltan Zinn Collis Zoltan Zinn-Collis is a Slovakian survivor of the Holocaust. He is only one of five living survivors of the Holocaust in Ireland.-Family:...	M
Faber, David David Faber (author, Holocaust survivor) David Faber is a Polish Jew who survived nine concentration camps in Nazi Germany occupied Poland and Germany. He is also an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust.-Life:...	M	Poland
Frister, Roman Roman Frister Roman Frister wrote "The Cap: The Price of a Life", an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists.Frister spent time in:...	M	Poland
Goldman, Yosef Yosef Goldman Yosef Goldman is a scholar of American Jewish history and the author of the two-volume reference work, Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography . This work is usually cited by auctioneers and rare-book dealers...	M
Gray, Martin Martin Gray (Holocaust survivor) Martin Gray, born as Mieczysław Grajewski is a Holocaust survivor and author.thumb\|"Make that the wounds, if hope wins on sufferings, become the veins in which life's blood flows." Monument erected close to M-G former [[Brussels]] residence in Uccle district.In 1946 Gray emigrated to the United...	M	Poland
Harsh, Arek Arek Hersh Arek Hersh MBE is a survivor of the Holocaust.He was born in Sieradz Poland and was taken to his first concentration camp when he was only eleven years old. The camp started out with 2,500 men, eighteen months later only 11 were alive. Arek moved around several camps before being taken to Auschwitz...	M	Poland
Heller, Fanya Fanya Heller Fanya Gottesfeld Heller is a noted Holocaust survivor, author and philanthropist. Born into a traditional Jewish family in a small village in the Ukraine in 1924, she and her family hid from the Nazi death squads with the help of two Christian rescuers....	F	Ukraine
Herzberger, Magda Magda Herzberger Magda Herzberger is an author and poet.Herzberger is a survivor of the Auschwitz, Bremen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.Her book "Survival" is an account of her early life, her time in the camps and eventual liberation, and her reunion with her mother.She has authored "Tales of the Magic...	F	Romania
Hollander, Eugene Eugene Hollander Eugene Hollander was a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust. He wrote a memoir, From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story, about his ordeal in Nazi Germany. Separated from his wife Monica for 14 months, they eventually reunited and moved to the United States....	M	Hungary
Jeruchim, Simon	M	France
Kertész, Imre Imre Kertész Imre Kertész is a Hungarian Jewish author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"....	M	Hungary
Kiek Cohen, Sonja	F	Netherlands
Klein, Gerda Gerda Weissmann Klein Gerda Weissmann Klein is an author, humanitarian, historian, inspirational speaker , naturalized citizen and Holocaust survivor. For over six decades she has captivated audiences worldwide with her powerful message of hope, inspiration, love and humanity...	F
Klíma, Ivan Ivan Klíma Ivan Klíma is a Czech novelist and playwright.- Biography :Klíma's early childhood in Prague was happy and uneventful, but this all changed with the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, after the Munich Agreement...	M	Czechoslovakia
Lustig, Arnošt Arnošt Lustig Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust.Lustig was born in Prague...	M	Czechoslovakia
Müller, Filip Filip Müller Filip Müller was one of very few Sonderkommandos to have survived Auschwitz, the largest Nazi German extermination camp....	M	Czechoslovakia
Pahor, Boris Boris Pahor Boris Pahor is a Slovene writer from Italy. He is considered to be one of the most influential living authors in the Slovene language and has been nominated for the Nobel prize for literature by the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts...	M	Italy
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel Marcel Reich-Ranicki Marcel Reich-Ranicki is a Polish-born German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47. He is regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and therefore was in Germany often called the 'Pope of literature' .-Life:Marcel...	M	Germany
Schloss, Eva	F	Austria
Sobolewicz, Tadeusz Tadeusz Sobolewicz Tadeusz Sobolewicz is a Polish actor and author, and a survivor of six Nazi concentration camps, a Gestapo prison, and a nine-day death march.- Life :Tadeusz Sobolewicz was born in Poznań, Poland...	M	Poland
Stenbock, Fanie	F	Poland
Westheimer, Ruth Ruth Westheimer Ruth Westheimer is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s...	F	Germany
Wiesel, Elie Elie Wiesel Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...	M	Romania

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Albreht, Fran Fran Albreht Fran Albreht was a Slovenian poet, editor, politician and partisan. He also published under the pseudonym Rusmir....	M	(73)	Czechoslovakia
Albreht, Vera Vera Albreht Vera Albreht was a Slovene poet, writer, publicist and translator.-Life:She was born as Vera Kessler in Krško into the well-to-do family. Her mother was Marija Kessler, nee Trenz, an ethnic German and her father Slovene, Rudolph Kessler...	F	(76)	Czechoslovakia
Baumann-Parkhurst, Marion	F	(96)	Germany
Boom, Cornelia "Corrie" ten Corrie ten Boom Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at Scheveningen prison where they were first held...	F	(91)	Netherlands
Borowski, Tadeusz Tadeusz Borowski Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature and had much influence in Central European society.- Early life :...	M	(28)	Ukraine
Celan, Paul Paul Celan Paul Celan was a poet and translator...	M	(49)	Romania
Clare, George George Clare (writer) George Clare was a British Jewish author and Holocaust survivor who wrote Last Waltz in Vienna and Berlin Days. Both are autobiographies in which he recounts first in Last Waltz in Vienna his boyhood and life as a Jew in Vienna, and then subsequently goes on to describe Hitler's rise to power and...	M	(88)	Britain
De-Nur, Yehiel Yehiel De-Nur Yehiel De-Nur or Dinur, , born Yehiel Feiner was a Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, whose books were inspired by his time as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp....	M	(92)	Poland
Delbo, Charlotte Charlotte Delbo Charlotte Delbo, , was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.-Early life:...	F	(71)	France
Feldhendler, Leon	M	(34-35)	Poland
Fénelon, Fania Fania Fénelon Fania Fénelon was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer.-Biography:...	F	(75)	France
Frank, Otto Otto Frank Otto Heinrich "Pim" Frank was a German-born businessman and the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank...	M	(91)	Germany
Frankl, Victor	M	(92)	Austria
Glazar, Richard Richard Glazar Richard Glazar was a Czech Jew who lived through World War II, one of only a few survivors of the Treblinka death camp. He portrayed the horror of Treblinka to the world in his book Trap with a Green Fence.-Family:Glazar was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia...	M	(77)	Czechoslovakia
Hutyra, Stanisław	M	(87)	Poland
Klemperer, Victor Victor Klemperer Victor Klemperer was a businessman, journalist and eventually a Professor of Literature, specialising in the French Enlightenment at the Technische Universität Dresden. His diaries detailing his life under successive German states—the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the German...	M	(70)	Germany
Komski, Jan	M	(87)	Poland
Korn, Abram	M	(49)	Poland
Kosinski, Jerzy Jerzy Kosinski Jerzy Kosiński , born Józef Lewinkopf, was an award-winning Polish American novelist, and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N.He was known for various novels, among them The Painted Bird and Being There...	M	(57)	Poland
Kralj, Vladimir	M	(67)	Slovenia
Lengyel, Olga Olga Lengyel Olga Lengyel was a Romanian woman who became a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and later wrote about her experiences in her book Five Chimneys.-Life and career:...	F	(93)	Romania
Levi, Primo Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...	M	(67)	Italy
Maxwell, Robert Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...	M	(68)	Czechoslovakia
Øverland, Ole Arnulf Øverland Ole Peter Arnulf Øverland was a Norwegian author born in Kristiansund and raised in Bergen. His works include Berget det blå and Hustavler .-Life:...	M	(78)	Norway
Pagis, Dan Dan Pagis Dan Pagis was an Israeli poet, lecturer and holocaust survivor. He was born in Rădăuţi, Bukovina in Romania and imprisoned as a child in a concentration camp in Ukraine...	M	(55)	Romania
Prežihov, Voranc Prežihov Voranc Prežihov Voranc was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar, a Slovene writer and Communist political activist. Voranc's literary reputation was established during the 1930s with a series of Slovene novels and short stories in the social realist style, notable for their depictions of poverty in rural and...	M	(56)	Czechoslovakia
Semprún, Jorge Jorge Semprún Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...	M	(87)	Spain
Spiegelman, Vladek	M	(75)	Poland
Sruoga, Balys Balys Sruoga Balys Sruoga was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist.He contributed to cultural journals from his early youth...	M	(51)	Lithuania
Staner, Mieczysław Mike Staner Mieczyslaw Staner , was a Holocaust survivor and an author.Mieczyslaw Staner was born in the Kraków suburb of Podgórze, and was educated first in a state Primary School and later in a Hebrew Gymnasium on Podbrzezie street in Kazimierz, the oldest Jewish Quarter in Kraków, which was founded by the...	M	(79)	Poland
Torkar, Igor Igor Torkar Igor Torkar was the pen name of Boris Fakin was a Slovenian writer, playwright and poet, most famous for his literary descriptions of Communist repression in Yugoslavia after World War II.- Life :...	M	(90)	Czechoslovakia

Living

Name	Sex	Birth (age)	Country
Ben-Or, Nelly Nelly Ben-Or Nelly Nechama Ben-Or, also known as Nelly Ben-Or Clynes, was born in 1933 in Lwow in Poland. She is an international concert pianist and a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she has taught the piano and the Alexander Technique since 1975. She is also a Holocaust...	F		Poland
Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita Anita Lasker-Wallfisch Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is a German-born cellist of world renown and is a surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz....	F		Germany

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Ančerl, Karel Karel Ancerl Karel Ančerl , was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers...	M	(65)	Czechoslovakia
Arnič, Blaž Blaž Arnic Blaž Arnič was a Slovenian symphonic composer.Born in Luče, Lower Styria, Austria-Hungary, Arnič grew up on an isolated farmstead near Mount Raduha in the Kamnik Alps...	M	(69)	Czechoslovakia
Fénelon, Fania Fania Fénelon Fania Fénelon was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer.-Biography:...	F	(75)	France
Graham, Bill Bill Graham (promoter) Bill Graham was an American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death.-Early life:...	M	(60)	Germany
Karp, Natalia Natalia Karp Natalia Karp was a London based concert pianist and Holocaust survivor.-Early life:Karp was born as Natalia Weissman in Kraków, Poland, and began learning piano at the age of four...	F	(96)	Poland
Messiaen, Olivier Olivier Messiaen Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...	M	(83)	France
Szpilman, Władysław	M	(88)	Poland

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Aran, Lydia Lydia Aran Lydia Aran , a professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a scholar of Buddhism. She taught in the Hebrew University's Department of Indian Studies until her retirement in 1998....	F	Lithuania
Lauren Horn	F	Czechoslovakia
Buergenthal, Thomas Thomas Buergenthal Thomas Buergenthal is a former judge of the International Court of Justice. He resigned his post as of 6 September 2010. Buergenthal is returning to his position as Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School...	M	Czechoslovakia

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Fackenheim, Emil Emil Fackenheim Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, Ph.D. was a noted Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.Born in Halle, Germany, he was arrested by the Nazis on the night of November 9, 1938, known as Kristallnacht...	M	(87)	Germany
Feuerwerker, Antoinette Antoinette Feuerwerker Antoinette Feuerwerker was a French jurist and an active fighter in the French Resistance during the Second World War.-Biography:...	F	(90)	Belgium
Sendler, Irena Irena Sendler Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II...	F	(98)	Poland
Tatarkiewicz, Władysław	M	(94)	Poland
Wahl, Jean Jean Wahl Jean André Wahl was a French philosopher.-Early career:He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S...	M	(86)	France

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Charpak, Georges Georges Charpak Georges Charpak was a French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.-Life:Georges Charpak was born to Jewish family in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland . Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old...	M	Ukraine
Grothendieck, Alexander Alexander Grothendieck Alexander Grothendieck is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry. His research program vastly extended the scope of the field, incorporating major elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory...	M	Germany
Kahneman, Daniel Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate. He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology....	M
Kandel, Eric	M
Kohn, Walter Walter Kohn Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist.He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials...	M	Austria
Morgentaler, Henry Henry Morgentaler Henry Morgentaler, CM is a Canadian physician and prominent pro-choice advocate who has fought numerous legal battles for that cause.-Early life:...	M	Poland
Tanay, Emanuel Emanuel Tanay Emanuel Tanay is an American physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor.-Early life:Tanay was born in Vilna but the family soon moved to Miechow, a small community just south of Kraków...	M	Poland
Warfman, Rose Rose Warfman Rose Warfman is a French survivor of Auschwitz and heroine of the French Resistance.-Born in Zürich:Rose Gluck was born on October 4, 1916, in Zürich, Switzerland, the daughter of Paul Gluck-Friedman and Henia Shipper .Her father was a direct descendant of Hasidic Masters, going back to the...	F	Switzerland
Wilchek, Meir Meir Wilchek Meir Wilchek is an Israeli biochemist.He is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science.-Early life and education:Meir Wilchek was born in Warsaw, Poland, scion of a rabbinical family...	M	Poland

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Goldschmidt, Victor	M	(59)	Switzerland
Librescu, Liviu Liviu Librescu Liviu Librescu was a Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and academic professor whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics...	M	(76)	Romania
Mandel, Ernest Ernest Mandel Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter , was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.-Life:...	M	(72)	Germany
Shahak, Israel Israel Shahak Israel Shahak was a Polish-born Israeli professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known especially as a radical political thinker, author, and civil rights activist. Between 1970-1990, he was president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and was an outspoken critic...	M	(68)	Poland
Ślebodziński, Władysław	M	(87)	Poland
Touschek, Bruno Bruno Touschek Bruno Touschek was an Austrian physicist, a survivor of the Holocaust, and initiator of research on electron-positron colliders.-Biography:...	M	(57)	Austria
Turán, Pál Pál Turán Paul Turán was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He had a long collaboration with fellow Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, lasting 46 years and resulting in 28 joint papers.- Life and education :...	M	(66)	Hungary

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Engleitner, Leopold Leopold Engleitner Leopold Engleitner is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector who speaks publicly on his experiences with students. He is the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will...	M	Austria
Gold, Ben-Zion Ben-Zion Gold Ben-Zion Gold is an American rabbi who was the Rabbi of the Hillel at Harvard University from 1958 until he became Rabbi Emeritus in 1990. Gold was born in 1923 in Radom, Poland, and is the only member of his family to have survived The Holocaust...	M	Poland
Halivni, David David Weiss Halivni David Weiss Halivni is an American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud.-Biography:...	M	Ukraine
Lau, Yisrael Yisrael Meir Lau Yisrael Meir Lau is the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel, and Chairman of Yad Vashem. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003.-Biography:...	M	Poland
Sobolewski, Sigmund Sigmund Sobolewski Sigmund Sobolewski is a Polish Catholic who was the 88th prisoner to enter Auschwitz on the very first transport to the concentration camp on June 14, 1940, and remained a prisoner for four and a half years during World War II...	M	Poland
Taub, Menachem Menachem Mendel Taub Menachem Mendel Taub, known as The Kaliver Rebbe, is a prominent Hasidic rabbi who is the Rebbe of the Kaliver Chassidic movement...	M	Poland

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Avigdor, Yaakov Jacob Avigdor Yaakov Avigdor was a Polish rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor, who served as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Mexico.-Life:...	M	(71)	Poland
Feuerwerker, David David Feuerwerker - Born in Geneva :He was born on October 2, 1912, at 11 Rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was the seventh of eleven children. His father Jacob Feuerwerker was born in Sighet, now Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramureş, then Hungary, now Rumania...	M	(67)	Switzerland
Gajowniczek, Franciszek Franciszek Gajowniczek Franciszek Gajowniczek was a Polish army sergeant whose life was spared by the Nazis when Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life for Gajowniczek's...	F	(93 or 94)	Poland
Goldman, Chananya Lipa Goldman Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Goldman was a renowned Orthodox rabbi, dayan, and publisher in Hungary and the United States....	M	(77)	Hungary
Halberstam, Yekusiel Yehudah Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam was an Orthodox rabbi and the founding rebbe of the Sanz-Klausenburg Hasidic dynasty....	M	(89)	Poland
Kozłowiecki, Adam	M	(96)	Poland
Lustiger, Jean-Marie	M	(80)	France
Teitelbaum, Joel Joel Teitelbaum Joel Teitelbaum, known as Reb Yoelish or the Satmar Rav , was a prominent Hungarian Hasidic rebbe and Talmudic scholar. He was probably the best known Haredi opponent of all forms of modern political Zionism...	M	(91)	Romania
Weissmandl, Chaim Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl was a rabbi and shtadlan...	M	(54)	Hungary
Wiechert, Ernst Ernst Wiechert Ernst Wiechert was a German teacher, poet and writer.-Biography:Wiechert was born in Kleinort near Sensburg , East Prussia.He was one of the most widely read novelists in Germany during the 1930s...	M	(73)	Poland

Living

Name	Sex	Country
Bartoszewski, Władysław	M	Poland
Heilman, Anna Anna Heilman Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum , referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, was one of the surviving Auschwitz ex-prisoners who were in on the plot to blow up the crematoria...	F	Poland
Triemel, Jack Jack Tramiel Jack Tramiel is an American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International - manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, and other Commodore models of home computers.-Biography:...	M	Poland
Veil, Simone Simone Veil Simone Veil, DBE is a French lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Health under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the European Parliament and member of the Constitutional Council of France....	F	France

Deceased

Name	Sex	Death (age)	Country
Blum, André Léon Blum André Léon Blum was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.-First political experiences:...	M	(77)	France
Bratteli, Trygve Trygve Bratteli was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party and Prime Minister of Norway in 1971–1972 and 1973–1976.-Early life and career:...	M	(74)	Norway
Cyrankiewicz, Józef Józef Cyrankiewicz Józef Cyrankiewicz was a Polish Socialist, after 1948 Communist political figure. He served as premier of the People's Republic of Poland between 1947 and 1952, and again between 1954 and 1970...	M	(77)	Poland
Draxler, Ludwig Ludwig Draxler Dr. Ludwig Draxler was an Austrian attorney and politician.Draxler was a decorated veteran of World War I and served as Austrian Secretary of Finance from 1935 to 1936...	M	(76)	Austria
Geremek, Bronisław	M	(76)	Poland
Gerhardsen, Einar Einar Gerhardsen was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party of Norway. He was Prime Minister for three periods, 1945–1951, 1955–1963 and 1963–1965. With 17 years in office, he is the longest serving Prime Minister in Norway since the introduction of parliamentarism...	M	(90)
Goldstein, Kurt Kurt Julius Goldstein Kurt Julius Goldstein was a German journalist and a former broadcast director.- Biography :Goldstein was born to a Jewish merchant family in Dortmund, Germany. At school, he experienced Germany's growing anti-Semitism and it had the effect of politicising him...	M	(92)	Germany
Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia Zofia Kossak-Szczucka Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter. She co-founded the wartime Polish organization Żegota, set up to assist Poland's Jews in escaping the Holocaust...	F	(78)	Poland
Lantos, Tom Tom Lantos Thomas Peter "Tom" Lantos was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death, representing the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of southwest San Francisco...	M	(80)	Hungary
Nansen, Odd Odd Nansen Odd Nansen was a Norwegian architect, author, and humanitarian, credited with his humanitarian efforts on behalf of Jews in the early years of World War II and for being a founder of UNICEF.-Biography:...	M	(71)	Norway
Nielsen, Martin Martin Nielsen Martin Nielsen was a Danish politician, managing editor, member of parliament for the Communist Party of Denmark and Holocaust survivor.Before his election to the Danish parliament he was a dairyman and farmworker....	M	(62)	Denmark
Schumacher, Kurt Kurt Schumacher Dr. Kurt Schumacher , was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag parliament from 1949 until his death...	M	(56)	Poland
Šik, Ota Ota Šik Ota Šik was a Czech economist and politician. He was the man behind the New Economic Model and was one of the key figures in the Prague Spring.-Early years:...	M	(84)	Czechoslovakia
Srebnik, Simon Simon Srebnik Simon Srebnik was a Polish Jew who was one of only two or three survivors of the Nazi death camp known as Chełmno extermination camp.-Camp life:...	M	(76)	Poland
Vrba, Rudolf Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, who came to public attention during the Second World War when, in April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland with the first...	M	(82)	Czechoslovakia
Wdowiński, Dawid Dawid Wdowinski Dawid Wdowiński was a psychiatrist and doctor of neurology. He was a member of the right-wing Jewish organization Hatzohar and political leader of the Żydowski Związek Wojskowy resistance organization before and during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.Before World War II, Wdowiński was a chairman of...	M	(73 or 74)	Poland
Wetzler, Alfréd Alfréd Wetzler Alfréd Israel Wetzler , who later wrote under the alias Jozef Lánik, was a Slovak Jew, and one of a very small number of Jews known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Wetzler was born on 10 May 1918, in the Slovak town of Trnava where he was a worker in the period...	M	(70)	Czechoslovakia

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Ban, Noémi Noémi Ban Noémi Ban , née Schönberger, is a Hungarian-born American Jew and survivor of the Holocaust. Today she is a Golden Apple Award-winning lecturer, public speaker, and teacher residing in Whatcom County, Washington.-The Holocaust:...	F	Hungary
Bialowitz, Philip	M	Poland
Biterman, Tauba Tauba Biterman Tauba Biterman is a Holocaust survivor. She has dedicated her adult life to teaching and sharing memories of the Holocaust. Her speeches paint a realistic portrait of what a Jewish girl from Poland went through between 1939 and 1945....	F	Poland
Evers-Emden, Bloeme Bloeme Evers-Emden Bloeme Evers-Emden is a Dutch Jewish teacher and child psychologist who extensively researched the phenomenon of "hidden children" during World War II and wrote four books on the subject in the 1990s...	F	Netherlands
Fayerman, Severin	M	Poland
Fischl, Peter Peter Fischl Peter L. Fischl is a survivor of the Holocaust, a poet and a public speaker, who has dedicated much of his life to educating people about the Holocaust and the importance of acceptance of others...	M	Hungary
Gotz, Elly	M	Lithuania
Hart-Moxon, Kitty Kitty Hart-Moxon Kitty Hart-Moxon OBE is a Polish-English Holocaust survivor. She was sent to the Auschwitz labour camp in 1943 at the age of 16, where she survived for two years, and was also imprisoned at other camps...	F	Poland
Kiek Cohen, Sonja http://www.andnomoresorrow.com	F	Netherlands
Klarsfeld, Beate Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Serge and Beate Klarsfeld are activists known for engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism...	F	Germany
Klarsfeld, Serge Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Serge and Beate Klarsfeld are activists known for engaging in Holocaust documentation and anti-Nazi activism...	M
Kramer, Clara	F	Poland
Mandelbaum, Jack Jack Mandelbaum Jack Mandelbaum is a Holocaust survivor born in 1927 in the free state of Gdańsk . His experiences as a boy during World War II were the subject of Andrea Warren's children's book Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.- Background :...	M	Poland
Olsson, Eva	F	Hungary
Perel, Solomon Solomon Perel Solomon Perel is an author and motivational speaker. He was born 21 April, 1925 in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as an ethnic German...	M	Germany
Pollack, Susan	F	Hungary
Riteman, Philip Philip Riteman Philip Riteman is an Auschwitz survivor who, in 1989, after forty years of silence, lectures on his experiences in public and private schools, community centres and universities in North America...	M	Poland
Rubin, Tibor Tibor Rubin Tibor "Ted" Rubin is a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the United States in 1948 and received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Korean War by President George W. Bush on September 23, 2005...	M	Hungary
Taler, Bronisława (née Frankiel)	F	Poland
Taler, Joseph	M	Poland
Wiesel, Elie Elie Wiesel Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...	M	Romania

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Frankenthal, Hans Hans Frankenthal Hans Frankenthal was a German Jew who was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland in 1943...	M	(73)	Germany
Gelissen, Rena Rena Kornreich Gelissen Rena Kornreich Gelissen, born Rena Kornreich , was a Polish-born Jew, known for her memoir, Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, her story of surviving the Nazi concentration camps with her sister Danka.-Life:In 1920, Rena was born in Tylicz, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, to Chaim...	F	(85)	Poland
Gorath, Karl Karl Gorath Karl Gorath was a gay man who was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned for homosexuality at Neuengamme and Auschwitz...	M	(90)	Germany
Greenman, Leon Leon Greenman Leon Greenman OBE was a British anti-fascism campaigner and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He gave regular talks to school children about his experience at Auschwitz, and also wrote a book, An Englishman in Auschwitz.Greenman was often reported to be the only Englishman sent to...	M	(97)
Herskovic, William William Herskovic William Herskovic was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps...	M	(93)	Hungary
Kanitz, Miklos Miklos Kanitz Miklos Samual Kanitz was a Hungarian-Canadian Holocaust survivor living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He narrowly escaped being transported to the German death camp at Auschwitz in June 1944 at the age of six, because a neighbor, whose son was a member of the Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross Party,...	M	(76)	Hungary
Mandelbaum, Henryk Henryk Mandelbaum Henryk Mandelbaum was a survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who had to work in the crematory...	M	(85)	Poland
Pfefferberg, Leopold Poldek Pfefferberg Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, , also known as Leopold Page, Library of Congress. Retrieved 8 September 2006. was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven...	M	(87)	Poland
Rosensaft, Josef Josef Rosensaft Josef Rosensaft was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 - September 11, 1975) was a Holocaust survivor who led the community of Jewish displaced persons Josef Rosensaft (January 15, 1911 - September 11, 1975) was a Holocaust...	M	(64)	Poland
Seel, Pierre Pierre Seel Pierre Seel was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality.-Biography:...	M	(82)	France
Spiegel, Paul Paul Spiegel Paul Spiegel was leader of the Zentralrat der Juden in Germany and the main spokesman of the German Jews...	M	(68)
Wynschenk, Eddy Eddy Wynschenk Eddy Wynschenk was a Holocaust survivor who became renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for sharing his story, frequently, at schools throughout Northern California. Before the Russian Army liberated Holocaust survivors from the Auschwitz death camp in January, 1945, he was...	M	(76)

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Kowalski, Józef Józef Kowalski Józef Kowalski is, at age 111, thought to be Poland's oldest living man. He is thought to be the oldest verified military veteran in the world, following the death of Gertrude Noone. He is also the only living verified veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War. Kowalski served in the 22nd Uhlan...	M		Poland

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Egge, Bjørn Bjørn Egge Bjørn Egge CBE was a retired Major General of the Norwegian Defence Force.Egge was a soldier during the German attack on Norway in 1940...	M	(88)	Norway
Friedman, Tuviah	M	(88)	Poland
Pechersky, Alexander Alexander Pechersky Alexander Aronovich Pechersky was the chief organizer and leader of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; this occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.-Early life:...	M	(80)
Pilecki, Witold Witold Pilecki Witold Pilecki was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, the founder of the Secret Polish Army resistance group and a member of the Home Army...	M	(47)
Rodrigues, Henry	M	(77)
Shaltiel, David David Shaltiel David Shaltiel was an Israeli military and intelligence officer, later also diplomat, and was most well known for being the district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.He was born in Berlin into a Portuguese orthodox Jewish family settled in Hamburg.At 16,...	M	(66)	Germany
Wiesenthal, Simon Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....	M	(96)	Ukraine
Willner, Eddie Eddie Willner Major Eddie Hellmuth Willner was a German Jew, a survivor of Auschwitz, a Mason, and a US Army Major.Willner, his mother, and his father, a veteran of the German army from the First World War and holder of the Iron Cross, were detained by the Nazis and eventually imprisoned in Auschwitz...	M	(81)	Germany

Sports

Kurt Epstein
Kurt Epstein
Kurt Epstein was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player.-Early life:Epstein was Jewish, and born to Maximilian and Helena Epstein. He grew in Roudnice near the Elbe River, 22 miles north of Prague, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian province of Bohemia...

, Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player
Ben Helfgott
Ben Helfgott
Ben Helfgott is a British Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter.He was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs programme on 1 April 2007...

, Polish-born British, 3x British champion (lightweight) weightlifter, 3x Maccabiah champion
Gertrude "Traute" Kleinová
Gertrude Kleinová
Gertrude "Traute or Trude" Kleinová was a three-time world champion table tennis player, winning the women's team world championship twice, and the world mixed doubles once....

, Czechoslovakian 3-time table tennis world champion
Alfred "Artem" Nakache
Alfred Nakache
Alfred Nakache was a French swimmer and water polo player. Nakache was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993...

, France; swimmer; world record (200-m breaststroke), one-third of French 2x world record (3x100 relay team)

External links

Holocaust survivor,John O. Friend
Holocaust Survivors and Remembrance Project
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Holocaust Studies of Dr. Joseph Taler of Poland", Dr. Joseph Taler's life stories (January 19, 2010)
http://www.andnomoresorrow.com(June 1, 2008)
"Sustained Through Terrible Trials", as told by Éva Josefsson (June 1, 1998)
"They Triumphed Over Persecution" - the life stories of Ádám Szinger and Frieda Jess (March 1, 2003)
"Searching Survivor and the Answer I Found" - The amazing survival story of Marion Baumann-Parkhurst (April, 2007)
"Intergenerational Healing in Holocaust Families and Breaking Holocaust Silences" - by Eva Metzger Brown, clinical psychologist and child survivor of the Holocaust (April, 2008)
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org
"ethicas.org" - The story of Bernd and Judy Simon, Holocaust Survivors

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