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Ruth Switzer was born in July 1934 in Vienna, Austria. Her parents were Jews who moved there from Poland so her father...

Elizabeth Goldstein was born in March 1926 in Kisar, Hungary. She was the second oldest of eight children. She and her...

Newlyweds, Shirley Sandy Schulman, and Hyman parted ways at a train station. Schulman headed home to Brooklyn [...

[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman survived concentration camps in Europe. The interviewer asks if the pendulum swings...

Richard Pipes said he and his family didn't learn about the Holocaust until after the war. The information came partly...

Eva Gross returned to Bergen-Belsen and stayed there for three years before immigrating to the United States. During...

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

Bernard Marcus’ parents immigrated to the United States from Europe. His mother came from Poland when it was a part of...

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

[Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein, who was liberated from a slave labor camp can be very difficult to understand at points...

Leona Kleiner reflects on her liberation. The American soldiers were kind to them and took care of them. She was in the...

Part of Martha Cohn's family successfully crossed from occupied France into unoccupied France from Saint-Secondin,...

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