Throughout our website the voices of the survivors infuse our online exhibitions, historical narratives, teaching units and ceremonies with content and with meaning. We have gathered many of those testimonies in this section where they can be easily accessed by either topic or location, according to the birthplaces of the survivors. This section will continue to grow as more and more testimonies are added to the website.
"For whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness"
Excerpt from a speech given by Elie Wiesel at Yad Vashem
"My Lodz No Longer Exists" The Story of Holocaust Survivor Yosef Neuhaus
"She Was There and She Told Me" - The Story of Hannah Bar Yesha
A Pledge and a Purpose: Testimony of Holocaust Survivor Chana Oren (Schönfeld)
Arnold Goldschmidt - Kristallnacht in the City of Fulda
Baruch Shub- The Holocaust in Vilna
Chana Weismann's Testimony
Chaya Avraham - The Holocaust in Transnistria
Chief Rabbi Lau speaks on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Cila Zakheim (Kopolowitz) tells her story of rescue by Ignat and Sofya Yermolovich
Commemoration of the Jewish Community of Monastir, Macedonia
Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Daily Life in the Concentration Camps: Rita Weiss
Daily Life in the Lodz Ghetto
Daily Life in the Plonsk Ghetto
Daily Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
David Gur - The Zionist Underground in Hungary
Dealing with the Past- The Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
Deportation from Hungary: Elisheva Zimet Stern and Rita Weiss
Deportation from Kracow to the Concentration Camps: Shmuel Rotbard, Miriam Akavia and Aliza Avnon
Deportation of the Jews of Greece to the Concentration Camps: Yaacov (Jacki) Handali
Deportation to the Death Camps: Rita Weiss
Dina Baitler- Mass Murder in Ponar
Education in the Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
Elie Wiesel speaks about his father and the significance of memory
Elie Wiesel: Universal Lessons of the Holocaust
Elisheva Auerbach Polak and Elisheva Weiss - The Holocaust in Holland
Entrance and Arrival- The Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
Ester Samuel-Cahn- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
Esther Burstein - Survival in the Lodz Ghetto
Esther Burstein describes maintaining her faith during the Holocaust
Esther Burstein describes sneaking holy books into the ghetto
Esther Burstein describes the humiliation and abuse of her grandfather in the local synagogue
Esther Debora Reiss-Mossel: Child Holocaust survivor describes wartime experiences
Forging Friendships in the Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
French Holocaust survivor Dr. Robert M. Finaly describes wartime experience
Haim Roet- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
Hannah Bar Yesha - Immigration to Israel and Building a New Life
Hannah Bar Yesha Describes Conversation among the Female Camp Prisoners at Auschwitz
Hannah Bar Yesha – The Hungarian Women's Camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Hannah Gofrit- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations in Warsaw, Poland
Heshel Reissman describes trying to maintain faith during the Holocaust
Holocaust Survivor Describes Ghetto and Death Camp
Holocaust Survivor Kalman Perk Describes Escape from Cattle Car
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: In the Ranks of the Partisans
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Libya
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Munkács Under Hungarian Rule
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Religious Life in Mir
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Religious Life in Munkács
Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Interwar Period in Mir
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Andrei Călăraşu
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Avraham Aviel
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Chasia Bornstein (Bielicka)
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Chava Pressburger
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Daniel Avidar
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: David (Yorek) Plonski
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dina Büchler-Chen
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Eliezer Ayalon
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Esther Pasker Gelbelman
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Felix Zandman
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Hela Schüpper-Rufeisen
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Iris Mozzeri
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Jakob Zim
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Joseph Labi
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Leo Luster
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Manya Brodeski-Titelman
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Menachem Frenkel
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Menachem Katz
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Mordechai (Motke) Wiesel
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Sara Israeli
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Shmuel Elchanan
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Vera Dotan
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yaacov (Jacki) Handeli
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yehuda Feigin
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yona (Janek) Fuchs
Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Zvi Unger
Holocaust Survivor Yehuda Szternfeld Remembers Fallen Survivor-Soldiers
Hunger in the Concentration Camps: Walter Zwi Bacharach
Identity Restored- The Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
Israel Meir Lau - On Anne Frank's Diary
Israel Meir Lau - Speaking Out Against Hunger in Africa
Jewish Education in Interwar Plonsk
Jewish Education in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Jewish Education in Würzburg During the Interwar Period
Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Walter Zvi Bacharach and Uri Ben Ari
Jewish Parties and Movements in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Jewish RAF Veteran Testimony - Martin Hauser
Jewish Religious Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Jews' Daily Life in Interwar Plonsk
Jews' Daily Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Kalman Bar On - Arrival and Survival in Auschwitz
Kristallnacht in the City of Buehl
Kristallnacht in the City of Würzburg
Lea Paz: Child Holocaust survivor describes rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
Life in Trzebinia, Poland: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Malka Rosenthal - Living in Hiding in the Stanislawow Ghetto
Malka Rosenthal - On Being Ostracized as a Child during the Occupation of Stanislawow
Malka Rosenthal - On Hiding in a Barrel for One and a Half Years during the Holocaust
Malka Rosenthal - On the Loss of Her Mother during the Holocaust
Marcel Reich-Ranicki: Cultural Activity in the Warsaw Ghetto
Marga Randall: Kristallnacht in a Small German Town
Meir Brand: Holocaust Survivor and Israeli Combat Officer
Michael Maor: From the Holocaust to the Secret Service
Mir During the Holocaust
Mirjam Schuster: Child Holocaust survivor describes helping other survivors
Mordechai (Motke) Zeidel- The Mass Murder Site of Ponar, Lithuania
Naphtali Lau Lavie discusses faith during the Holocaust
Nattan Ginzburg describes how as a young man during the Holocaust he observed Jewish rituals
Niko Pardo describes the end of the Jewish community of Monastir, Macedonia
Noemi Shadmi: From Holocaust Survivor to Israeli Police Commander
Ovadia Baruch - On the Way to Auschwitz
Ovadia Baruch - Ovadia and Aliza's First Meeting
Ovadia Baruch - The Return to Life
Ovadia Baruch - Thoughts on Seeing His Auschwitz-Birkenau Prisoner Card
Ovadia Baruch - Working at an Auschwitz sub-camp
Partisan Activities: Vitka Kovner, Joseph (Julik) Harmatz and Baruch Shub
Prof. Gutman discusses the significance and importance of the Oneg Shabbat Archives
Professor Israel Gutman describes Oneg Shabbat
Professor Israel Gutman discusses Emanuel Ringelblum
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau speaks about the importance of commemorating the Jews who perished during the Holocaust
Religious Life in Monastir, Macedonia
Religious Life in Trzebinia, Poland: Survivor Testimonies
Righteous Among the Nations from Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Rina Sha'ashua Hason: The Rescue of Bulgarian Jewry
Sabina Kirshenbaum describes how Orthodox men tried to prevent the Nazis from shaving their beards
Sabina Kirshenbaum describes standing guard at the shteibel (synagogue) that was located in her home
Schooling and Antisemitism in Trzebinia: Survivor Testimonies
Selection in Auschwitz: Yaacov (Jacki) Handali and Rita Weiss
Shalom Shorenson's Testimony: Murder of the Jews of Lithuania
Shimon Greenhouse: Child Holocaust survivor describes family's wartimes experiences
Shmuel Daitch Ben Menachem: Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashana in the Kovno Ghetto
Shushan Cohen- The Holocaust in Tunisia
Slave Labor in the Concentration Camps: Yaacov (Jacki) Handali and Roman Frister
Solomon Feigerson: Child Holocaust survivor describes escape from mass execution
Surviving the Holocaust: Esther Eisen's Story
Surviving the Holocaust: Hanna Bar Yesha's Story
Surviving the Holocaust: Hedy Hirsch's Story
Surviving the Holocaust: Mordechai Eldar's Story
Surviving the Holocaust: Sophie Engelsman's Story
Surviving the Holocaust: Zanne Farbstein's Story
The Aktions in Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
The Anguish of Liberation: Nachum Bandel, Rita Weiss, Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Herta Goldman and Walter Zwi Bacharach
The Chelmno Death Camp: Shimon Srebrnik
The Death Marches: Herta Goldman and Lea Frank Holitz
The Deportation of the Jews of Würzburg to the East
The Displaced Persons' Camps: Abraham and Shoshana Roshkovski
The End of the Jewish Community in Monastir, Macedonia
The German Invasion of Trzebinia, Poland
The Holocaust in Romania: Ester Gelbelman
The Jewish Community of Monastir, Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
The Jewish Community of Würzburg During the Interwar Period
The Jewish Community of Würzburg: Religious Life
The Jews of Würzburg 1933 - 1938
The Kovno Train - The Fatal Transport to Ponary: Excerpts From Yitzhak Arad's Testimony
The Liquidation of the Ghetto in Trzebinia, Poland
The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
The Mass Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto: Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef Charny
The Partisans of Mir: Shmuel Cesler and Oswald Rufeussen
The Sterner Family Remembered
The Treblinka Death Camp: Eliahu Rosenberg
Twin Sisters Describe Arrival at Auschwitz: Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber
Underground Activity in France and Hungary: Thea Epstein, Moshe Alpan, and Ephraim Agmon
Underground Refuge- Hiding from the Nazis: Malka Rosenthal
Uri Ben Ari and Walter Zwi Bacharach- Kristallnacht
Uri Chanoch: Two Brothers Struggle to Survive the Holocaust
Vilna During the Holocaust: The Wittenberg Affair: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Voices From the Forest: Testimonies of Partisans from Vilna
Willie Sterner Describes Deportation
Willie Sterner Describes the Jewish Community of Wolbrom
Willie Sterner Remembers Wolbrom
Yakov (Jannek) Hollander- The Krakow Ghetto and the Concentration Camps
Yechiel Burgin, a partisan from Vilna talks about the Theater in the Vilna Ghetto
Yerakhmiyel Felzenshteyn: Jewish fighter in Red Army describes his WWII experiences
Yisrael Gutman: Daily Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Yosef Charny- Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
Yosef Neuhaus - Arrival and Daily Life in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust
Yosef Neuhaus - Rumkowski's Speech in Lodz, Poland, during the Holocaust
Yosef Neuhaus - The Vibrancy of the Jewish Community in Lodz before the Holocaust
Yosef Neuhaus - Work and Survival in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust
Youth Movements in Monastir, Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
Zionist Activity in Interwar Plonsk
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping New Immigrants to Israel
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping Survivors in Bergen-Belsen
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- His Decision to Leave Austria During the Height of His Studies for His Doctorate
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Man After the Holocaust
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Providing Help in Bergen-Belsen
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Spiritual Challenges in the POW Camps
Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Spiritual Leadership in the POW Camps
