Remembrance

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. 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
Topics
- The Jewish World Before World War II
- A Pledge and a Purpose: Testimony of Holocaust Survivor Chana Oren (Schönfeld)
- Jewish Education in Interwar Plonsk
- Jewish Education in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jewish Education in Würzburg During the Interwar Period
- Jewish Parties and Movements in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jewish Religious Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jews´ Daily Life in Interwar Plonsk
- Jews´ Daily Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Life Between the Two World Wars in Monastir, Macedonia
- Prewar Life in Trzebinia, Poland
- Religious Life in Mir
- Religious Life in Monastir, Macedonia
- Religious Life in Munkács
- Religious Life in Trzebinia, Poland
- Schooling and Antisemitism in Trzebinia, Poland
- The Interwar Period in Mir
- The Jewish Community of Würzburg During the Interwar Period
- The Jewish Community of Würzburg: Religious Life
- Walter Zwi Bacharach and Uri Ben Ari- Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
- Willie Sterner - The Jewish Community in Wolbrom, Poland
- Willie Sterner- Wolbrom Before the War
- Yosef Neuhaus- The Jewish Community in Lodz Before the Holocaust
- Youth Movements in Monastir, Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Zionist Activity in Interwar Plonsk
- Nazi Germany and the Jews - 1933-1939
- Arnold Goldschmidt- Kristallnacht in the City of Fulda
- Ehud Loeb- Kristallnacht in the City of Buehl, Germany
- Marga Randall- Kristallnacht in a Small German Town
- The Jews of Würzburg 1933 - 1938
- The Jews of Würzburg During Kristallnacht
- Uri Ben Ari and Walter Zwi Bacharach- Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
- Uri Ben Ari and Walter Zwi Bacharach- Kristallnacht
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- His Decision to Leave Austria During the Height of His Studies for His Doctorate
- The Outbreak of World War II and Anti-Jewish Violence
- Elisheva Auerbach Polak and Elisheva Weiss - The Holocaust in Holland
- Esther Burstein- Abuse of Jews in the Synagogue
- Hay Zuaretz and Linda Tayar- The Holocaust in Libya
- Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: Munkács Under Hungarian Rule
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony :Andrei Calarasu
- Sabina Kirshenbaum- Trying to Prevent the Nazis from Shaving off Beards
- The Aktions in Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- The German Invasion of Trzebinia, Poland
- The Ghettos
- Chasia Bornstein - The Underground and the Partisans
- Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Daily Life in the Plonsk Ghetto
- Daily Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Eliezer Ayalon- The Ghetto in Radom, Poland
- Esther Burstein - Survival in the Lodz Ghetto
- Esther Burstein- Maintaining Faith During the Holocaust
- Esther Burstein- Smuggling Jewish Books into the Ghetto
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Avraham Aviel
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yona (Janek) Fuchs
- Leo Luster- From Vienna to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
- Malka Rosenthal - A Girl's Experiences During the Holocaust
- Malka Rosenthal- The Ghetto in Stanislawow
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki- Cultural Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Mir During the Holocaust
- Noemi Shadmi
- Sabina Kirshenbaum- Standing Guard outside of the Synagogue
- Shimon Srebrnik and Tola Walach Melzer- Life in the Lodz Ghetto
- Shmuel Daitch Ben Menachem - Blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashana in the Kovno Ghetto
- The Aktions in Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- The Kovno Train - The Fatal Transport to Ponary: Excerpts From Yitzhak Arad´s Testimony
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- Uri Chanoch
- Vilna During the Holocaust: The Wittenberg Affair: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Yakov (Jannek) Hollander- The Krakow Ghetto and the Concentration Camps
- Yechiel Burgin, a partisan from Vilna talks about the Theater in the Vilna Ghetto.
- Yehuda Szternfeld
- Yisrael Gutman - Emanuel Ringelblum
- Yisrael Gutman - Living Conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Yisrael Gutman - The Oneg Shabbat Archives
- Yisrael Gutman - The Significance and Importance of the Oneg Shabbat Archives
- Yisrael Gutman- From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Israel
- Yosef Charny- Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Yosef Neuhaus- Rumkowski's Speech in Lodz, Poland
- Yosef Neuhaus: Work and Survival in the Lodz Ghetto
- The Final Solution
- Baruch Shub- The Holocaust in Vilna
- Chaya Avraham - The Holocaust in Transnistria
- Dina Baitler- Mass Murder in Ponar
- Ester Gelbelman- Murder of the Jews in Transnistria
- Esther Debora Reiss-Mossel- The Holocaust in Holland
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony :Andrei Calarasu
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Avraham Aviel
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dina Baitler
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
- Malka Rosenthal - The Occupation of Stanislawow
- Manya Brodeski-Titelman - The Murder of the Jews of Zhabokrich
- Mirjam Schuster- The Holocaust in Transnistria
- Mordechai (Motke) Zeidel- The Mass Murder Site of Ponar, Lithuania
- Shalom Shorenson- Murder of the Jews in Lithuania
- Shimon Greenhouse- The Holocaust in Belarus
- Solomon Feigerson- Escape from Mass Execution
- The Aktions in Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- The End of the Jewish Community in Monastir, Macedonia
- The Kovno Train - The Fatal Transport to Ponary: Excerpts From Yitzhak Arad´s Testimony
- Willie Sterner - September 5-6, 1942 in Wolbrom, Poland
- Transports and Extermination in the Death Camps
- Eliahu Rosenberg- The Treblinka Death Camp
- Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef Charny- Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
- Kalman Perk- Escape from the Deportation Train
- Leo Luster- From Vienna to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz
- Liquidation of the Ghetto in Trzebinia, Poland
- Ovadia Baruch- Deportation to Auschwitz
- Rita Weiss and Elisheva Zimet Stern- Deportation from Hungary
- Rita Weiss and Yaacov (Jacki) Handali - Selection in Auschwitz
- Rita Weiss- Deportation to the Death Camps
- Shimon Srebrnik- The Chelmno Death Camp
- Shmuel Rotbard, Miriam Akavia and Aliza Avnon- The Deportation from Krakow
- The Deportation of the Jews of Würzburg to the East
- The End of the Jewish Community in Monastir, Macedonia
- The Kovno Train - The Fatal Transport to Ponary: Excerpts From Yitzhak Arad´s Testimony
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- Willie Sterner - September 5-6, 1942 in Wolbrom, Poland
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali - Survival in Auschwitz
- The World of the Camps
- Esther Eisen- Survival during the Holocaust
- Hanna Bar-Yesha- Daily Life in Auschwitz
- Hanna Bar-Yesha- From Auschwitz to Israel
- Hedy Hirsch- Surviving Auschwitz with her Mother
- Heshel Reissman- Maintaining Faith During the Holocaust
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Chava Pressburger
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dina Buchler-Chen
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yona (Janek) Fuchs
- Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber- Twin Sisters Describe Arrival at Auschwitz
- Kalman Bar On - Arrival and Survival in Auschwitz
- Mordechai (Motke) Wiesel - Survival in the Concentration Camps
- Mordechai Eldar
- Naftali Lau Lavie- Maintaining Faith During the Holocaust
- Nattan Ginzburg- Observing Jewish Rituals During the Holocaust
- Ovadia Baruch- Meeting his Wife for the First Time
- Rita Weiss- Starvation in the Concentration Camps
- Roman Frister and Yaacov (Jacki) Handali- Daily Life in the Concentration Camps
- Shushan Cohen- The Holocaust in Tunisia
- The End of the Jewish Community in Monastir, Macedonia
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- The Liquidation of the Plonsk Ghetto
- Walter Zwi Bacharach- Hunger in the Concentration Camps
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali - Survival in Auschwitz
- Yakov (Jannek) Hollander- The Krakow Ghetto and the Concentration Camps
- Yosef Neuhaus- Arrival and Daily Life in Auschwitz
- Zanne Farbstein - Arrival and Survival in Auschwitz
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Religious and Spiritual Leadership in the POW Camps
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Spiritual and Religious Challenges in Captivity
- Zvi Unger - Survival in Auschwitz
- Combat and Rescue
- Baruch Shub- The Holocaust in Vilna
- Baruch Shub, Vitka Kovner, and Joseph (Julik) Harmatz- Partisans Activities
- Chasia Bornstein - The Underground and the Partisans
- David Gur - The Zionist Underground in Hungary
- Ephraim Agmon, Thea Epstein, and Moshe Alpan- Underground Rescue Activity in France and Hungary
- Ester Samuel-Cahn- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
- Haim Roet- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
- Hannah Gofrit- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations in Warsaw, Poland
- Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Life of a Partisan
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony :Andrei Calarasu
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Avraham Aviel
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dina Buchler-Chen
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Yona (Janek) Fuchs
- Ignat and Sofya Yermolovich - Righteous Among The Nations
- In the Ranks of the Partisans
- Lea Paz- Resued by Righteous Among the Nations
- Malka Rosenthal - A Girl's Experiences During the Holocaust
- Malka Rosenthal- Life in Hiding
- Meir Brand
- Menachem Frenkel - Survival Under a False Identity
- Menachem Katz- Escape from Execution and Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
- Michael Maor- Partisan Activities in Yugoslavia
- Righteous Among the Nations from Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Rina Sha'ashua Hason- The Rescue of Bulgarian Jewry
- Robert M. Finaly- Life in France Under a False Identity
- Sara Israeli- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations in Hungary
- Shmuel Cesler and Oswald Rufeussen- The Partisans of Mir
- Vilna During the Holocaust: The Wittenberg Affair: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Vitka Kovner, Joseph (Julik) Harmatz, and Baruch Shub- Partisans Activities
- Voices From the Forest: Testimonies of Partisans from Vilna
- Yerakhmiyel Felzenshteyn - Fighting in the Soviet Army
- Yisrael Gutman- From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Israel
- An Ending and a Beginning
- Commemoration of the Jewish Community of Monastir, Macedonia
- Elie Wiesel- Commemorating his Father with a Page of Testimony
- Esther Eisen- Survival during the Holocaust
- Jakob Zim- The Death Marches and the Liberation
- Lea Frank Holitz and Herta Goldman - The Death Marches
- Malka Rosenthal- On the Loss of her Mother
- Ovadia Baruch- Return to Life
- Sophie Engelsman- Returning to Life after the Shoah
- Walter Zwi Bacharach, Rita Weiss, Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Herta Goldman and Nachum Bandel- The Anguish of Liberation
- Willie Sterner- The Sterner Family Remembered
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- The Start of his Activities in the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
- Return to Life
- Commemoration of the Jewish Community of Monastir, Macedonia
- Dealing with the Past- The Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
- Education in the Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
- Elie Wiesel- Speech at the Dedication of Yad Vashem's New Museum- 2005
- Entrance and Arrival- The Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
- Esther Eisen- Survival during the Holocaust
- Forging Friendships in the Children's Home in Otwock, Poland
- Hanna Bar-Yesha- From Auschwitz to Israel
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Simcha Applebaum
- 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
- Israel Meir Lau - The Importance of Commemorating the Victims of the Holocaust
- Israel Meir Lau- Speech on Holocaust Martyrs´ and Heroes´ Remembrance Day 2009
- Malka Rosenthal - A Girl's Experiences During the Holocaust
- Ovadia Baruch- Returning to Auschwitz
- Rina Quint - Her Desire to Discover and Speak About her Past
- Rina Quint - Her Feelings on Visiting Poland
- Rina Quint - On Volunteering in Israel and Speaking about the Holocaust
- Rina Quint- Finding her Birth Certificate in the Archives in Piotrkow Trybunaliski
- Sara Israeli- Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations in Hungary
- Shoshana and Abraham Roshkovski- Life in the Displaced Persons' Camp
- Yisrael Gutman- From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Israel
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping New Immigrants in Israel
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping Survivors in the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- His Understanding of Man after the Holocaust
Places
The videos are organized here according to the birthplaces of the survivors. Since the videos are gathered from various sources, some videos contain testimony of survivors from numerous locations all relating to a particular topic. In such cases, the video appears in several locations, with the survivor from the particular place of origin appearing first in the title of the video.
- Amsterdam, Holland
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Bardejov, Czechoslovakia
- Benghazi, Libya
- Beodra, Yugoslavia
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping New Immigrants in Israel
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Helping Survivors in the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- His Decision to Leave Austria During the Height of His Studies for His Doctorate
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- His Understanding of Man after the Holocaust
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Religious and Spiritual Leadership in the POW Camps
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- Spiritual and Religious Challenges in Captivity
- Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott- The Start of his Activities in the Bergen-Belsen DP Camp
- Berezhany, Poland
- Berlin, Germany
- Biala Rawska, Poland
- Bielsko-Biala, Poland
- Botosani, Romania
- Budapest, Hungary
- Buehl, Germany
- Campulung la Tissa, Romania
- Debrecen, Hungary
- Djerba, Tunisia
- Dugalishok, Belarussia
- Fulda, Germany
- Grenoble, France
- Grodno, Poland
- Hanau, Germany
- Walter Zwi Bacharach and Uri Ben Ari - Kristallnacht
- Walter Zwi Bacharach and Uri Ben Ari- Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
- Walter Zwi Bacharach- Hunger in the Concentration Camps
- Walter Zwi Bacharach, Rita Weiss, Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Herta Goldman and Nachum Bandel- The Anguish of Liberation
- Heiloo, Holland
- Ilok, Yugoslavia
- Kalish, Poland
- Kavnik, Romania
- Kec, Hungary
- Rita Weiss and Elisheva Zimet Stern- Deportation from Hungary
- Rita Weiss and Yaacov (Jacki) Handali - Selection in Auschwitz
- Rita Weiss- Deportation to the Death Camps
- Rita Weiss- Starvation in the Concentration Camps
- Rita Weiss, Nachum Bandel, Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Herta Goldman and Walter Zwi Bacharach- The Anguish of Liberation
- Kharkov, Ukraine
- Kishinev, Romania
- Kisvarda, Hungary
- Kovno, Lithuania
- Krakow, Poland
- Miriam Akavia, Alisa-Lusia Avnon, Rita Weiss, Nachum Bandel, Herta Goldman and Walter Zwi Bacharach- The Anguish of Liberation
- Naftali Lau Lavie- Maintaining Faith During the Holocaust
- Sabina Kirshenbaum- Standing Guard outside of the Synagogue
- Sabina Kirshenbaum- Trying to Prevent the Nazis from Shaving off Beards
- Sch?pper-Rufeisen Hela
- Shmuel Rotbard, Miriam Akavia and Aliza Avnon- The Deportation from Krakow
- Yakov (Jannek) Hollander- The Krakow Ghetto and the Concentration Camps
- Krasne, Belarus
- Liepaja, Latvia
- Liepaja, Latvia
- Lodz, Poland
- Esther Burstein - Survival in the Lodz Ghetto
- Esther Burstein- Abuse of Jews in the Synagogue
- Esther Burstein- Maintaining Faith During the Holocaust
- Esther Burstein- Smuggling Jewish Books into the Ghetto
- Esther Eisen- Survival during the Holocaust
- Shimon Srebrnik and Tola Walach Melzer- Life in the Lodz Ghetto
- Shimon Srebrnik- The Chelmno Death Camp
- Yehuda Szternfeld
- Yosef Neuhaus- Arrival and Daily Life in Auschwitz
- Yosef Neuhaus- Rumkowski's Speech in Lodz, Poland
- Yosef Neuhaus- The Jewish Community in Lodz Before the Holocaust
- Yosef Neuhaus: Work and Survival in the Lodz Ghetto
- Lvov, Poland
- Malcz, Pruzhany
- Mir, Poland
- Monastir, Yugoslavia
- Commemoration of the Jewish Community of Monastir, Macedonia
- Life Between the Two World Wars in Monastir, Macedonia
- Religious Life in Monastir, Macedonia
- Righteous Among the Nations from Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- The End of the Jewish Community in Monastir, Macedonia
- Youth Movements in Monastir, Macedonia: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Munkács, Czechoslovakia
- Nagyszollos, Hungary
- Okany, Hungary
- Oslo, Norway
- Otwock, Poland
- Pestszenterzsebet, Hungary
- Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
- Israel Meir Lau - On Anne Frank's Diary
- Israel Meir Lau - Speaking Out Against Hunger in Africa
- Israel Meir Lau - The Importance of Commemorating the Victims of the Holocaust
- Israel Meir Lau- Speech on Holocaust Martyrs´ and Heroes´ Remembrance Day 2009
- Rina Quint - Her Desire to Discover and Speak About her Past
- Rina Quint - Her Feelings on Visiting Poland
- Rina Quint - On Volunteering in Israel and Speaking about the Holocaust
- Rina Quint- Finding her Birth Certificate in the Archives in Piotrkow Trybunaliski
- Plonsk, Poland
- Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Radom, Poland
- Rokiskis, Lithuania
- Rotterdam, Holland
- Salonika, Greece
- Baruch Ovadia
- Ovadia Baruch- Deportation to Auschwitz
- Ovadia Baruch- Meeting his Wife for the First Time
- Ovadia Baruch- Return to Life
- Ovadia Baruch- Returning to Auschwitz
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali - Survival in Auschwitz
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali and Rita Weiss - Selection in Auschwitz
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali and Roman Frister- Daily Life in the Camps
- Yaacov (Jacki) Handali- Deportation of the Jews of Salonika, Greece, to Auschwitz
- Satu-Mare, Romania
- Schermbeck, Germany
- Sighet, Romania
- Simleul Silvaniei (Szilagysomlyo), Hungary
- Sosnowiec, Poland
- Stanislawow, Poland
- Suchedniow, Poland
- Swenciany, Poland
- Tarnow, Poland
- Trnava, Czechoslovakia
- Trzebinia, Poland
- Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia
- Vascauti, Romania
- Vienna, Austria
- Vilna, Lithuania
- Avidar Daniel
- Baitler Dina
- Baruch Shub- The Holocaust in Vilna
- Baruch Shub, Vitka Kovner, and Joseph (Julik) Harmatz- Partisans Activities
- Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Daily Life in the Vilna Ghetto: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Dina Baitler- Mass Murder in Ponar
- Holocaust Survivor Testimonies: The Life of a Partisan
- Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Dina Baitler
- Jewish Education in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jewish Parties and Movements in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jewish Religious Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Jews´ Daily Life in Interwar Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Shalom Shorenson- Murder of the Jews in Lithuania
- The Aktions in Vilna: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- The Kovno Train - The Fatal Transport to Ponary: Excerpts From Yitzhak Arad´s Testimony
- Vilna During the Holocaust: The Wittenberg Affair: Holocaust Survivor Testimonies
- Voices From the Forest: Testimonies of Partisans from Vilna
- Yechiel Burgin, a partisan from Vilna talks about the Theater in the Vilna Ghetto.
- Würzburg, Germany
- Warsaw, Poland
- Eliahu Rosenberg- The Treblinka Death Camp
- Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef Charny- Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki- Cultural Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Plonski David (Yorek)
- Yisrael Gutman - Emanuel Ringelblum
- Yisrael Gutman - Living Conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Yisrael Gutman - The Oneg Shabbat Archives
- Yisrael Gutman - The Significance and Importance of the Oneg Shabbat Archives
- Yisrael Gutman- From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to Israel
- Yosef Charny- Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Wolbrom, Poland
- Zablocie, Poland
- Zagreb, Yugoslavia
- Zarojani, Romania
- Zhabokrich, Ukraine


