Read reflections and testimonies written by Holocaust survivors in their own words.

The timing of our escape was indeed a miracle,” remembers Holocaust survivor Frank Cohn about his arrival in New York City on October 30, 1938. Frank and his ...

Esther was born in Adelsheim, Germany on April 3, 1937. Adelsheim was a very small town, with only 10 Jewish families living in the area. Her parents, Katie (née Lemburger) and Adolf Rosenfeld, had ...

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“Family Memories as Sources for Holocaust Studies: Daily Life and Survival Practices of the Roma in Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region under National Socialist Occupation.” Dr. Volha Bartash received ...

Between 1939 and 1945, as part of their efforts to eliminate Jews from the European continent, the Nazi dictatorship removed people from the Reich they considered unworthy of being citizens because ...

The eruption of neo-Nazism and White Supremacy across the country has exposed the public to symbols, terms, and ideology drawn directly from Nazi Germany and Holocaust-era fascist movements. The ...

My mother’s oft-repeated axiom to me was, “Remember the good, forget the bad.” Undoubtedly, that is how she willed herself to move on with life after the Nazis robbed her of a husband and two ...

American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles of bodies, walking skeletons on the verge of death, and other unspeakable ...

Josie Traum was born Josiane Aizenberg in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 1939 into a traditional Jewish home. Her father, Jacques “Jack” Aizenberg, worked as a tailor. Her mother, Fajga “Fanny” ...

USHMM Library: Memorial Books DS134.66.B43 F33 1994, v. 1-2. Provenance: Bound photocopies of materials obtained by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library staff from Mr. Jeffrey K. Cymbler of the ...