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Laszlo Schwarc wanted to talk about the World War 2 veterans. He said when he was in the displaced persons camp he saw...

Joseph Komito traveled many days on a train not knowing where he was bound [Annotator's Note: the Germans were...

Martin Baranek describes how he and a friend escaped the selection process [Annotator's Note: at the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

Micha Tomkiewicz fills his time trying to informally study and understand the history of the Holocaust. For him, the...

Benjamin Lesser arrived at Birkenau after a long journey in a cattle car. It was adjacent to Auschwitz. Birkenau was...

Fred Amram started to identify as a Holocaust [Annotator's Note: also called the Shoah; the genocide of European Jews...

Zhanna Dawson experienced constant bombing when the Germans invaded [Annotator's Note: Germany invaded Soviet Russia in...

Marthe Cohn and her family arrived in Poitiers, France to stay with her father's brother. They had been asked to move...

Ivan Bodis-Wollner was born in October 1937 in Szeged, Hungary. The first registration on his mother's side for noble-...

Judith Altmann recalled that it took three weeks, mostly traveling on foot, to move from Essen to Bergen-Belsen. The...

Judith Altmann said the British soldiers gave the prisoners all the food they had. Unfortunately, that was the wrong...

Judah Samet was sent to a large lumber yard [Annotator's Note: The first attempted deportation from Debrecen, Hungary...

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