List of Holocaust survivors
The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945. Although there were many victims of the Holocaust, the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) defines a Holocaust survivor as, "Any Jew who lived for any period of time in a country that was ruled by the Nazis or their allies."[1] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) gives a broader definition: "The Museum honors as a survivor any person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and/or political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos, this includes refugees and people in hiding."[2] Most notably, as well as Jewish people, this includes Poles, Romani people, Jehovah's Witnesses and those who were persecuted for political reasons such as Communists, those who were persecuted for religious reasons (such as Pastor Niemoller), and homosexuals and those of other sexual orientations. It includes those who were actually in hiding in Nazi-occupied countries. The latter includes Hidden Children, who were hidden to escape the Nazis.
Most especially, in contrast to the ICHEIC definition, it includes refugees, who fled from their homeland to escape the Nazis, and never lived in a Nazi-controlled country.
The ICHEIC definition was created for the purpose of resolving some insurance claims. Over time, the classes of insurance claims have greatly expanded.
This list does not include refugees, since it is created on the basis of the restricted ICHEIC definition. Refugees include the unaccompanied children of the Kindertransport and the unaccompanied One Thousand Children.
Actors, actresses and directors
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Roman Polanski | M | August 18, 1933 | Poland |
Ruth Posner | F | April 20, 1933 | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Clary, Robert | M | March 1, 1926 | November 16, 2022 | (aged 96)France |
Huber, Lotti | F | October 16, 1912 | May 31, 1998 | (aged 85)Germany |
Langhoff, Wolfgang | M | October 6, 1901 | August 26, 1966 | (aged 64)Germany |
Le Beau, Bettina | F | October 16, 1912 | May 21, 1998 | (aged 85)Belgium |
Lowens, Curt | M | November 17, 1925 | May 8, 2017 | (aged 91)Poland |
Lustig, Branko | M | June 10, 1932 | November 14, 2019 | (aged 87)Croatia |
Pitt, Ingrid | F | November 21, 1937 | November 23, 2010 | (aged 73)Poland |
Pravda, Hana Maria | F | January 29, 1916 | May 22, 2008 | (aged 92)Czechoslovakia |
Charles Regnier | M | July 22, 1914 | September 13, 2001 | (aged 87)Germany |
Von Ruffin, Kurt | M | 1901 | November 17, 1996 | (aged 94–95)Germany |
Sernas, Jacques | M | July 30, 1925 | July 3, 2015 | (aged 89)Lithuania |
Artists, painters, and photographers
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Country of Origin |
---|---|---|---|
Bacon, Yehuda | M | July 28, 1929 | Czech Republic |
Bak, Samuel | M | August 12, 1933 | Poland |
Berman, Helen | F | April 6, 1936 | Netherlands |
Selinger, Shelomo | M | May 31, 1928 | Poland/France |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country of Origin |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aron, Kalman | M | September 14, 1924 | February 24, 2018 | (aged 93)Latvia |
Babbitt, Dina | F | January 21, 1923 | July 29, 2009 | (aged 86)Czechoslovakia |
Breger, Helen | F | 1918 | October 22, 2013 (aged 95) | Austria |
Bullaty, Sonja | F | October 17, 1923 | October 5, 2000 | (aged 76)Czechoslovakia |
Galton, Herta | F | November 12, 1914 | March 24, 2010 | (aged 95)Austria |
Koczy, Rosemarie | F | March 5, 1939 | December 12, 2007 | (aged 68)Poland |
Lieblich, Irene | F | April 20, 1923 | December 28, 2008 | (aged 85)Poland |
Lok Cahana, Alice | F | February 7, 1929 | November 28, 2017 | (aged 88)Hungary |
Mušič, Zoran | M | February 12, 1909 | May 25, 2005 | (aged 96)Slovenia/Yugoslavia |
Nassy, Josef | M | January 19, 1904 | 1976 (aged 71–72) | Belgium/Netherlands/Suriname |
Olère, David | M | January 19, 1902 | August 21, 1985 | (aged 83)Poland |
Szapocznikow, Alina | F | May 16, 1926 | March 2, 1973 | (aged 46)Poland |
Tarkay, Itzchak | M | 1935 | June 3, 2012 | (aged 76–77)Serbia/Yugoslavia |
Terna, Fred | M | 1923 | December 8, 2022 | (aged 99)Czechoslovakia |
Tibor, Alfred | M | February 10, 1920 | March 18, 2017 | (aged 97)Hungary |
Humanities
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth(age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Hershaft, Alex | M | July 1, 1934 | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aran, Lydia | F | October 1921 | 5 March 2013 | (aged 91)Lithuania |
Bettelheim, Bruno | M | August 28, 1903 | March 13, 1990 | (aged 86)Austria |
Buergenthal, Thomas | M | May 11, 1934 | May 29, 2023 | (aged 89)Czechoslovakia |
Fackenheim, Emil | M | June 22, 1916 | September 18, 2003 | (aged 87)Germany |
Feuerwerker, Antoinette | F | November 24, 1912 | February 10, 2003 | (aged 90)Belgium |
Klüger, Ruth | F | October 30, 1931 | October 6, 2020 | (aged 88)Austria |
Sendler, Irena | F | February 15, 1910 | May 12, 2008 | (aged 98)Poland |
Szondi, Péter | M | May 27, 1929 | October 18, 1971 | (aged 42)Hungary |
Wahl, Jean | M | May 25, 1888 | June 19, 1974 | (aged 86)France |
Literature, memoirs and publishing
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Auerbacher, Inge | F | December 31, 1934 | Germany |
Balas, Edith | F | June 20, 1929 | Romania |
Begley, Louis | M | October 6, 1933 | Ukraine/USSR |
Bruck, Edith | F | May 3, 1931 | Hungary |
Hersh, Arek | M | September 13, 1928 | Poland |
Klíma, Ivan | M | September 14, 1931 | Czechoslovakia |
Levitin, Sonia | F | August 18, 1934 | Germany |
Lobel, Anita | F | June 2, 1934 | Poland |
Schloss, Eva | F | May 11, 1929 | Austria |
Zisblatt, Irene | F | December 28, 1929 | Hungary |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abraham, Ben | M | December 11, 1924 | October 9, 2015 | (aged 90)Poland |
Adler, H. G. | M | July 2, 1910 | August 21, 1988 | (aged 78)Czechoslovakia |
Albreht, Fran | M | November 17, 1889 | November 2, 1963 | (aged 73)Czechoslovakia |
Albreht, Vera | F | February 11, 1895 | May 25, 1971 | (aged 76)Czechoslovakia |
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia | F | May 9, 1930 | April 8, 2017 | (aged 86)Poland |
Arendt, Hannah | F | October 14, 1906 | April 12, 1975 | (aged 68)Germany |
Auerbakh, Rokhl | F | December 18, 1903 | May 31, 1976 | (aged 72)Poland |
Beck, Gad | M | June 30, 1923 | June 24, 2012 | (aged 88)Germany |
Blatt, Thomas | M | April 15, 1927 | October 31, 2015 | (aged 88)Poland |
Blumenthal-Weiss, Ilse | F | October 14, 1899 | August 10, 1987 | (aged 87)Germany |
Boom, Cornelia "Corrie" ten | F | April 15, 1892 | April 15, 1983 | (aged 91)Netherlands |
Borowski, Tadeusz | M | November 12, 1922 | July 1, 1951 | (aged 28)Ukraine/USSR |
Brady, George | M | February 9, 1928 | January 11, 2019 | (aged 90)Czechoslovakia |
Bretholz, Leo[3] | M | March 6, 1921 | March 8, 2014 | (aged 93)Austria |
Celan, Paul | M | November 23, 1920 | April 20, 1970 | (aged 49)Romania |
Chillag, John | M | April 20, 1927 | March 21, 2009 | (aged 81)Austria |
Clare, George | M | December 21, 1920 | March 26, 2009 | (aged 88)Great Britain |
Dagan, Bat-Sheva | F | September 8, 1925 | January 25, 2024 | (aged 98)Poland |
d'Ayen, Solange[4][5] | F | April 5, 1898 | November 3, 1976 | (aged 78)France |
Debreczeni, József[6] | M | October 13, 1905 | April 26, 1978 | (aged 72)Hungary |
De-Nur, Yehiel | M | May 16, 1909 | July 17, 2001 | (aged 92)Poland |
Delbo, Charlotte | F | August 10, 1913 | March 1, 1985 | (aged 71)France |
Deutschkron, Inge | F | August 23, 1922 | March 9, 2022 | (aged 99)Germany |
Ebert, Lily | F | December 29, 1923 | October 9, 2024 | (aged 100)Hungary |
Faber, David | M | August 25, 1928 | July 28, 2015[7] | (aged 86)Poland |
Feldhendler, Leon | M | June 1, 1910 | April 6, 1945 | (aged 34)Poland |
Fénelon, Fania | F | September 2, 1908 | December 19, 1983 | (aged 75)France |
Frank, Otto | M | May 12, 1889 | August 19, 1980 | (aged 91)Germany |
Frankl, Victor | M | March 26, 1905 | August 2, 1997 | (aged 92)Austria |
Friedberg, Bernard | M | December 19, 1876 | January 27, 1961 | (aged 84)Austria |
Friedenson, Joseph | M | April 1922 | February 23, 2013 | (aged 90)Poland |
Frister, Roman | M | January 17, 1928 | February 9, 2015 | (aged 87)Poland |
Glazar, Richard | M | November 29, 1920 | December 20, 1997 | (aged 77)Czechoslovakia |
Golde, Henry | M | May 5, 1929 | October 18, 2019 | (aged 90)Poland |
Goldman, Yosef | M | 1942 | August 4, 2015[8] | (aged 72–73)Hungary |
Gray, Martin | M | April 27, 1922 | April 25, 2016[9] | (aged 93)Poland |
Heller, Fanya | F | October 14, 1924 | October 31, 2017 | (aged 93)Ukraine |
Herzberger, Magda | F | February 20, 1926 | April 23, 2021 | (aged 95)Romania |
Heumann, Margot | F | February 17, 1928 | May 11, 2022 | (aged 94)Germany |
Hollander, Eugene | M | December 14, 1912 | December 15, 1996 | (aged 84)Hungary |
Jaranyi, Elizabeth | F | February 19, 1918 | February 26, 1998 | (aged 80)Hungary/United States |
Kertész, Imre | M | November 9, 1929 | March 31, 2016 | (aged 86)Hungary |
Kiek Cohen, Sonja[10] | F | November 21, 1922 | January 11, 2016 | (aged 93)Netherlands |
Klein, Gerda | F | May 8, 1924 | April 3, 2022 | (aged 97)Poland |
Klemperer, Victor | M | October 9, 1889 | February 11, 1960 | (aged 70)Germany |
Komski, Jan | M | February 3, 1915 | July 20, 2002 | (aged 87)Poland |
Korn, Abram[11] | M | 1923 | 1972 (aged 48–49) | Poland |
Kosinski, Jerzy | M | June 14, 1933 | May 3, 1991 | (aged 57)Poland |
Kralj, Vladimir | M | August 16, 1901 | March 29, 1969 | (aged 67)Slovenia/Yugoslavia |
Lengyel, Olga | F | October 19, 1908 | April 15, 2001 | (aged 92)Romania |
Levi, Primo | M | July 31, 1919 | April 11, 1987 | (aged 67)Italy |
Lewis (Lezerkiewicz), Victor[12] | M | August 25, 1919 | October 5, 2009 | (aged 90)Poland |
Leyson, Leon | M | September 15, 1929 | January 12, 2013 | (aged 83)Poland |
Lustig, Arnošt | M | December 21, 1926 | February 26, 2011 | (aged 84)Czechoslovakia |
Mannheimer, Max | M | February 6, 1920 | September 24, 2016 | (aged 96)Czechoslovakia |
Maxwell, Robert | M | June 10, 1923 | November 5, 1991 | (aged 68)Czechoslovakia |
Müller, Filip | M | January 3, 1922 | November 9, 2013 | (aged 91)Czechoslovakia |
Orenstein, Henry | M | October 13, 1923 | December 14, 2021 | (aged 98)Poland |
Örkény, István | M | April 5, 1912 | June 24, 1979 | (aged 67)Hungary |
Øverland, Arnulf | M | April 27, 1889 | March 25, 1968 | (aged 78)Norway |
Pagis, Dan | M | October 16, 1930 | July 29, 1986 | (aged 55)Romania |
Pahor, Boris | M | August 26, 1913 | May 30, 2022 | (aged 108)Slovenia/Italy |
Pick-Goslar, Hannah | F | November 12, 1928 | October 28, 2022 | (aged 93)Netherlands |
Półtawska, Wanda | F | November 2, 1921 | October 24, 2023 | (aged 101)Poland |
Prežihov, Voranc | M | August 10, 1893 | February 18, 1950 | (aged 56)Slovenia/Yugoslavia |
Rabinovici, Schoschana[13] | F | November 14, 1932 | August 2, 2019 | (aged 86)France |
Radasky, Solomon | M | May 17, 1910 | August 4, 2002 | (aged 92)Poland |
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel[14] | M | June 2, 1920 | September 18, 2013 | (aged 93)Germany |
Roman, Ken | M | May 12, 1926 | August 9, 2016 | (aged 90)Poland |
Roth, Emerich | M | August 28, 1924 | January 22, 2022 | (aged 97)Czechoslovakia |
Salier, Eva | F | 1923 | August 12, 2014 | Germany |
Schloss, Magda Riederman[15] | M | March 20, 1920 | December 17, 2015 | (aged 95)Hungary |
Semprún, Jorge | M | December 10, 1923 | June 7, 2011 | (aged 87)Spain |
Sobolewicz, Tadeusz | M | March 25, 1925 | October 28, 2015[16] | (aged 90)Poland |
Spiegelman, Vladek | M | October 11, 1906 | August 18, 1982 | (aged 75)Poland |
Staner, Mieczysław | M | 1924 | August 29, 2003 | (aged 78–79)Poland |
Stenbock, Fanie[17][18] | F | 1919 | April 13, 2020[19] | (aged 100–101)Poland |
Torkar, Igor | M | October 13, 1913 | January 1, 2004 | (aged 90)Czechoslovakia |
Wachstein, Sonia | F | October 25, 1907 | August 10, 2001 | (aged 93)Austria |
Winter, Miriam | F | June 2, 1933 | July 19, 2014 | (aged 81)Poland |
Zoltan-Zinn, Collis | M | 1940 | December 10, 2012 | (aged 71–72)Czechoslovakia |
Zsolt, Béla | M | August 1, 1895 | June 2, 1949 | (aged 53)Hungary |
Mathematics and natural sciences
[edit]Living
[edit]Names | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Englert, François | M | November 6, 1932 | Belgium |
Hoffmann, Roald | M | July 13, 1937 | Poland |
Reichental, Tomi | M | 1935 (age 88–89)[20] | Czechoslovakia[20] |
Reisfeld, Renata | F | 1930 (age 93–94) | Poland |
Wilchek, Meir | M | October 17, 1935 | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Adelsberger, Lucie | F | April 12, 1895 | November 2, 1971 | (aged 76)Germany |
Charpak, Georges | M | August 1, 1924 | September 29, 2010 | (aged 86)France |
Eitinger, Leo | M | December 12, 1912 | October 15, 1996 | (aged 83)Norway |
Frank, Otto | M | May 12, 1889 | August 19, 1980 | (aged 91)Germany |
Goldschmidt, Victor | M | January 27, 1888 | March 20, 1947 | (aged 59)Switzerland |
Grothendieck, Alexander | M | March 28, 1928 | November 13, 2014 | (aged 86)Germany |
Kahneman, Daniel | M | March 5, 1934 | March 27, 2024 | (aged 90)France |
Kohn, Walter | M | March 9, 1923 | April 19, 2016[21] | (aged 93)Austria |
Levi-Montalcini, Rita | F | April 22, 1909 | December 30, 2012 | (aged 103)Italy |
Librescu, Liviu | M | August 18, 1930 | April 16, 2007 | (aged 76)Romania |
Mandel, Ernest | M | April 5, 1923 | July 20, 1995 | (aged 72)Germany |
Morgentaler, Henry | M | March 19, 1923 | May 29, 2013 | (aged 90)Poland |
Nussbaum, A. Edward | M | January 10, 1925 | October 31, 2009 | (aged 84)Germany |
Philippson, Alfred | M | January 1, 1864 | January 30, 1953 | (aged 89)Germany |
Shahak, Israel | M | April 28, 1933 | July 2, 2001 | (aged 68)Poland |
Ślebodziński, Władysław | M | February 6, 1884 | January 3, 1972 | (aged 87)Poland |
Tanay, Emanuel | M | March 5, 1928 | August 5, 2014 | (aged 86)Poland |
Touschek, Bruno | M | February 3, 1921 | May 25, 1978 | (aged 57)Austria |
Trachtenberg, Jakow | M | June 17, 1888 | 1953 (aged 64–65) | Russia, USSR |
Turán, Pál | M | August 18, 1910 | September 26, 1976 | (aged 66)Hungary |
Warfman, Rose | F | October 4, 1916 | September 17, 2016[22] | (aged 99)Switzerland |
Military
[edit]Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Acevedo, Anthony | M | July 31, 1924 | February 11, 2018 | (aged 93)United States |
Egge, Bjørn | M | August 19, 1918 | July 25, 2007 | (aged 88)Norway |
Friedman, Tuviah | M | January 23, 1922 | January 13, 2011 | (aged 88)Poland |
Kowalski, Józef[23] | M | February 2, 1900 | December 7, 2013 | (aged 113)Poland |
Pechersky, Alexander | M | February 22, 1909 | January 19, 1990 | (aged 80)Ukraine, USSR |
Pilecki, Witold | M | May 13, 1901 | May 25, 1948 | (aged 47)Poland |
Simjon Rosenfeld | M | October 1, 1922 | June 3, 2019 | (aged 96)USSR |
Rubin, Tibor | M | June 18, 1929 | December 5, 2015 | (aged 86)Hungary |
Shaltiel, David | M | January 16, 1903 | 1969 (aged 65–66) | Germany |
Wiesenthal, Simon | M | December 31, 1908 | September 30, 2005 | (aged 96)Austria |
Willner, Eddie | M | August 15, 1926 | March 30, 2008 | (aged 81)Germany |
Music
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Ben-Or, Nelly | F | 1933 (age 90–91) | Poland |
Lasker-Wallfisch, Anita | F | July 17, 1925 | Germany |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ančerl, Karel | M | April 11, 1908 | July 3, 1973 | (aged 65)Czechoslovakia |
Arnič, Blaž | M | January 31, 1901 | February 1, 1970 | (aged 69)Slovenia |
Carmeli, Boris | M | April 23, 1928 | July 31, 2009 | (aged 81)Poland |
Fénelon, Fania | F | September 2, 1908 | December 19, 1983 | (aged 75)France |
Filar, Marian | M | December 17, 1917 | July 10, 2012 | (aged 94)Poland |
Graham, Bill | M | January 8, 1931 | October 25, 1991 | (aged 60)Germany |
Herz-Sommer, Alice | F | November 26, 1903 | February 23, 2014 | (aged 110)Czechoslovakia |
Karp, Natalia | F | February 27, 1911 | July 9, 2007 | (aged 96)Poland |
Reiner, Karel | M | June 27, 1910 | October 17, 1979 | (aged 69)Czechoslovakia |
Roman, Martin | M | April 23, 1910 | May 12, 1996 | (aged 86)Germany |
Růžičková, Zuzana | F | January 14, 1927 | September 27, 2017 | (aged 90)Czechoslovakia |
Schreyer, Alfred | M | May 8, 1922 | April 25, 2015 | (aged 92)Ukraine |
Schumann, Heinz Jakob "Coco" | M | May 14, 1924 | January 28, 2018 | (aged 93)Germany |
Béjarano, Esther | F | December 15, 1924 | July 10, 2021 | (aged 96)Germany |
Szpilman, Władysław | M | December 5, 1911 | July 6, 2000 | (aged 88)Poland |
Vogel, Eric | M | 1896 | 1980 (aged 83–84) | Czechoslovakia |
Politics, activism, resistance
[edit]Living
[edit]Names | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Kozak, Marion | F | 1934 (age 89–90) | Poland/United Kingdom |
Levy, Anne Skorecki | F | July 1935 (age 89) | Poland |
Segre, Liliana | F | September 10, 1930 | Italy |
Zylbersztajn-Tzur, Stella | F | November 29, 1925 | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bartoszewski, Władysław | M | February 19, 1922 | April 24, 2015 | (aged 93)Poland |
Blum, Léon | M | April 9, 1872 | March 3, 1950 | (aged 77)France |
Bratteli, Trygve | M | January 11, 1910 | November 20, 1984 | (aged 74)Norway |
Burack, Zahava | F | December 14, 1932 | September 28, 2001 | (aged 68)Poland |
Cyrankiewicz, Józef | M | April 23, 1911 | January 20, 1989 | (aged 77)Poland |
Draxler, Ludwig | M | 1896 | 1972 (aged 75–76) | Austria |
Epstein, Hedy | F | August 15, 1924 | May 26, 2016 | (aged 91)Germany/United States |
Geremek, Bronisław | M | March 6, 1932 | July 13, 2008 | (aged 76)Poland |
Gerhardsen, Einar | M | May 10, 1897 | September 19, 1987 | (aged 90)Norway |
Goldman, Alter Mojze | M | November 17, 1909 | January 1, 1988 | (aged 78)Poland, France |
Heilman, Anna | F | December 1, 1928 | May 1, 2011 | (aged 82)Poland |
Kossak-Szczucka, Zofia | F | August 10, 1889 | April 9, 1968 | (aged 78)Poland |
Lantos, Tom | M | February 1, 1928 | February 11, 2008 | (aged 80)Hungary |
Nansen, Odd | M | December 6, 1901 | June 27, 1973 | (aged 71)Norway |
Nielsen, Martin | M | December 12, 1900 | 1962 (aged 61–62) | Denmark |
Rogerie, André | M | December 25, 1921 | May 1, 2014 | (aged 92)France |
Rubin, Anatoly | M | January 29, 1927 | January 16, 2017 | (aged 89)USSR, Israel |
Schumacher, Kurt | M | October 13, 1895 | August 20, 1952 | (aged 56)Germany |
Šik, Ota | M | September 11, 1919 | August 22, 2004 | (aged 84)Czechoslovakia |
Srebrnik, Simon | M | April 10, 1930 | August 16, 2006 | (aged 76)Poland |
Veil, Simone | F | July 13, 1927 | June 30, 2017 | (aged 89)France |
Vrba, Rudolf | M | November 9, 1924 | March 27, 2006 | (aged 81)Czechoslovakia |
Weiss, Shevah | M | July 5, 1935 | February 3, 2023 | (aged 87)Poland |
Wetzler, Alfréd | M | May 10, 1918 | February 8, 1988 | (aged 69)Czechoslovakia |
Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Country |
---|---|---|---|
Berger, Gusta (née Friedman)[24] | F | January 23, 1923 | Poland |
Eger, Edith[25] | F | September 29, 1927 | Hungary |
Friedländer, Margot[26] | F | November 5, 1921 | Germany |
Foxman, Abraham | M | May 1, 1940 | Belarus/USSR |
Gotz, Elly[27] | M | 1928 (age 95–96) | Lithuania |
Hart-Moxon, Kitty | F | December 1, 1926 | Poland |
Klarsfeld, Serge | M | September 17, 1935 | Romania |
Lindenbaum, Manfred[28] | M | 1932 (age 91–92) | Germany |
Olsson, Eva[29] | F | October 28, 1924 | Hungary |
Orosz-Richt, Angela[30] | F | December 21, 1944 | Hungary |
Pollack, Susan[31] | F | September 9, 1930 | Hungary |
Prochnik, Leon[32] | M | May 31, 1933 | Poland |
Wechsler, Hannah[33] | F | 1936 (age 87–88) | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ban, Noémi | F | September 29, 1922 | June 7, 2019 | (aged 96)Hungary |
Biterman, Tauba | F | September 10, 1917 | November 11, 2019 | (aged 102)Poland |
Cohen, Sara Wilhelmina (Sonja) | F | November 21, 1922 | January 11, 2016[34] | (aged 93)Netherlands |
Evers-Emden, Bloeme | F | July 26, 1926 | July 18, 2016 | (aged 89)Netherlands |
Engel, Chaim | M | January 10, 1916 | July 4, 2003 | (aged 87)Poland |
Selma Engel-Wijnberg | F | May 15, 1922 | December 4, 2018 | (aged 96)Netherlands |
Fainer, Ben | M | November 28, 1930 | May 17, 2016[35] | (aged 85)Poland |
Fayerman, Severin[36] | M | March 18, 1922 | January 12, 2015 | (aged 92)Poland |
Fischl, Peter | M | July 19, 1930 | February 12, 2018 | (aged 87)Hungary |
Frankenthal, Hans | M | July 15, 1926 | December 22, 1999 | (aged 73)Germany |
Gelissen, Rena | F | August 24, 1920 | April 8, 2006 | (aged 85)Poland |
Gorath, Karl | M | December 12, 1912 | March 18, 2002 | (aged 89)Germany |
Greenman, Leon | M | September 18, 1910 | March 7, 2008 | (aged 97)Great Britain/Netherlands |
Herskovic, William | M | June 1914 | March 3, 2006 | (aged 91)Hungary |
Kanitz, Miklos | M | 1939 | November 6, 2006 | (aged 66–67)Hungary |
Kramer, Clara[37] | F | April 9, 1927 | September 11, 2018[38] | (aged 91)Poland |
Mandelbaum, Henryk | M | December 15, 1922 | June 17, 2008 | (aged 85)Poland |
Mandelbaum, Jack | M | April 10, 1927 | August 6, 2023 | (aged 96)Poland |
Perel, Solomon | M | April 21, 1925 | February 2, 2023 | (aged 97)Germany |
Pfefferberg, Leopold | M | March 20, 1913 | March 9, 2001 | (aged 87)Poland |
Plywaski, Walter | M | August 10, 1929 | January 28, 2021 | (aged 91)Poland |
Riteman, Philip | M | February 14, 1922 | August 8, 2018 | (aged 96)Poland |
Rosensaft, Josef | M | January 15, 1911 | September 11, 1975 | (aged 64)Poland |
Rubin, Tibor | M | June 18, 1929 | December 5, 2015[39] | (aged 86)Hungary |
Jules Schelvis | M | January 7, 1921 | April 3, 2016 | (aged 95)Netherlands |
Seel, Pierre | M | August 16, 1923 | November 25, 2005 | (aged 82)France |
Shipper, Zigi[40] | M | January 18, 1930 | January 18, 2023 | (aged 93)Poland |
Spiegel, Paul | M | December 31, 1937 | April 30, 2006 | (aged 68)Germany |
Țucărman, Iancu[41][42] | M | October 30, 1922 | January 8, 2021 | (aged 98)Romania |
Wiesel, Elie | M | September 30, 1928 | July 2, 2016 | (aged 87)Romania |
Wolanski, Sabina | F | June 8, 1927 | June 23, 2011 | (aged 84)Poland |
Sports
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth (age) | Country | Sport |
---|---|---|---|---|
Keleti, Ágnes | F | January 9, 1921 | Hungary | Gymnastics |
Ladany, Shaul | M | April 2, 1936 | Yugoslavia | Racewalking; 2-time Olympian; holds the world record in the 50-mile walk, and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk. He is former world champion in the 100-kilometer walk. 5 Maccabiah Games gold medals |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country | Sport |
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Arouch, Salamo | M | January 1, 1923 | April 26, 2009 | (aged 86)Greece & Israel | Boxing; the Middleweight Champion of Greece |
Epstein, Kurt | M | January 21, 1904 | February 1, 1975 | (aged 71)Czechoslovakia | Water polo; Olympic player (1928 and 1936) |
Erbstein, Ernő Egri | M | May 13, 1898 | May 4, 1949 | (aged 50)Hungary | Association football; Serie A champion as manager of Torino F.C (1948–49) |
Helfgott, Ben | M | November 22, 1929 | June 16, 2023 | (aged 93)Poland/Great Britain | Weightlifting; 3x British champion (lightweight) weightlifter, 3x Maccabiah champion |
Kleinová, Gertrude "Traute" | F | August 13, 1918 | February 1975 (aged 56–57) | Czechoslovakia | Table tennis; 3-time world champion |
de Levie, Elka | F | November 21, 1905 | December 12, 1979 | (aged 74)Netherlands | Gymnastics; Olympic champion (1928) |
Nakache, Alfred "Artem" | M | November 18, 1915 | 1983 (aged 67–68) | France | Swimming; world record, one-third of French 2x world record |
Sláma, Miroslav | M | August 3, 1917 | November 30, 2008 | (aged 91)Czechoslovakia | Ice hockey; Olympic medalist (1948) |
Guth, Alfred | M | July 27, 1908 | November 13, 1996 | (aged 88)Austria/United States | American water polo player; swimmer; Olympic modern pentathlete |
Theology, spirituality, religion
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
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Lau, Yisrael | M | June 1, 1937 | Poland |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
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Avigdor, Yaakov | M | 1896 | 1967 (aged 70–71) | Poland |
Baeck, Leo | M | May 23, 1873 | November 2, 1956 | (aged 83)Germany/United Kingdom |
Engleitner, Leopold | M | July 23, 1905 | April 21, 2013 | (aged 107)Austria |
Feuerwerker, David | M | October 2, 1912 | June 20, 1980 | (aged 67)Switzerland |
Friediger, Max | M | April 9, 1884 | 1947 (aged 62–63) | Denmark |
Gajowniczek, Franciszek | M | November 15, 1901 | March 13, 1995 | (aged 93)Poland |
Gold, Ben-Zion[43] | M | 1923 | April 18, 2016[44] | (aged 92–93)Poland |
Goldman, Chananya | M | 1905 | 1982 (aged 76–77) | Hungary |
Halberstam, Yekusiel Yehudah | M | January 10, 1905 | June 18, 1994 | (aged 89)Poland |
Kozłowiecki, Adam | M | April 1, 1911 | September 28, 2007 | (aged 96)Poland |
Liebman, Gershon | M | 1905 | March 8, 1997 | (aged 91–92)France |
Lustiger, Jean-Marie | M | September 17, 1926 | August 5, 2007 | (aged 80)France |
Newmark, Helga | F | 1932 | 2012 (aged 79–80) | Germany |
Rosenbaum, Tibor | M | November 2, 1923 | October 23, 1980 | (aged 56)Hungary/Switzerland |
Rudolph, Richard | M | June 11, 1911 | January 31, 2014 | (aged 102)Germany |
Sobolewski, Sigmund | M | May 11, 1923 | August 7, 2017 | (aged 94)Poland |
Taub, Menachem | M | 1923 | April 28, 2019 (aged 95–96) | Poland |
Teitelbaum, Joel | M | January 1, 1887 | August 19, 1979 | (aged 92)Romania |
Weissmandl, Chaim | M | October 25, 1903 | November 29, 1957 | (aged 54)Hungary |
Wiechert, Ernst | M | May 18, 1877 | August 24, 1950 | (aged 73)Poland |
Other
[edit]Living
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth (age) | Country |
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Bornstein, Renee | F | February 10, 1934 | France |
Clarke, Eva | F | April 29, 1945 | Czechoslovakia |
Deceased
[edit]Name | Sex | Birth | Death (age) | Country |
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Arndt, Arthur | M | August 20, 1893 | January 13, 1974 | (aged 80)Germany |
Bialowitz, Philip | M | December 25, 1925 | August 6, 2016 | (aged 90)Poland |
Bornstein, Ernst Israel | M | November 26, 1922 | August 14, 1978 | (aged 55)Poland |
Leon Felhendler | M | 1910 | 6 April 1945 (aged 34–35) | Poland |
Dobrowolski, Antoni | M | October 8, 1904 | October 21, 2012 | (aged 108)Poland |
Eisen, Hilda | F | April 25, 1917 | December 22, 2017 | (aged 100)Poland |
Hela Felenbaum-Weiss | F | January 2, 1924 | December 1, 1988 | (aged 64)Poland |
Dov Freiberg | M | May 15, 1928 | May 1, 2008 | (aged 79)Poland |
Martin Greenfield | M | August 9, 1928 | March 20, 2024 | (aged 95)Czechoslovakia |
Goldstein, Kurt Julius | M | November 3, 1914 | September 24, 2007 | (aged 92)Germany |
Kleinfeld Schachter, Hedda | F | February 5, 1924 | March 29, 2023 | (aged 99)Austria |
Kristal, Yisrael | M | September 15, 1903 | August 11, 2017 | (aged 113)Poland/Israel |
Lapid, Tommy | M | December 27, 1931 | June 1, 2008 | (aged 76)Yugoslavia/Israel |
Leiber, Judith | F | January 11, 1921 | April 28, 2018 | (aged 97)Hungary |
Meijers, Clara | F | August 27, 1885 | October 13, 1964 (aged 79) | Netherlands |
Piasek, Abe | M | November 10, 1928 | January 15, 2020 | (aged 91)Poland/United States |
Reichmann, Eva Gabriele | F | January 16, 1897 | September 19, 1998 | (aged 101)Germany/UK |
Robert, Rudolf | M | February 11, 1922 | 1997 (aged 74–75) | Germany |
Rosensaft, Hadassah | F | August 26, 1912 | October 3, 1997 | (aged 85)Poland |
Joseph Serchuk | M | 1919 | November 6, 1993 | (aged 73–74)Poland |
Stanisław Szmajzner | M | March 13, 1927 | March 3, 1989 | (aged 61)Poland |
Tramiel, Jack | M | December 13, 1928 | April 8, 2012 | (aged 83)Poland |
Wdowiński, Dawid[45] | M | May 26, 1896 | 1970 (aged 73–74) | Poland |
Westheimer, Ruth | F | June 4, 1928 | July 12, 2024 | (aged 96)Germany |
See also
[edit]- 3GNY
- American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants
- Heroic Children, a collection of true stories about child survivors
- List of survivors of Sobibor
- List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz
- Holocaust denial
- Jews escaping from Nazi Europe
- List of victims of Nazism
- Selvino children
- Sh'erit ha-Pletah
Documentaries about Holocaust survivors
[edit]- The Boys of Buchenwald
- The Girl From Boryslaw: Australian Story with Sabina Wolanski,[46] the story of Sabina Wolanski who was chosen to speak on behalf of the six million dead at the opening of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin in May 2005
- The Lady in Number 6
- Marion's Triumph
- One Survivor Remembers, directed by Kary Antholis
- Pola's March
- Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann
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External links
[edit]- Online Torchlighter Film Archive - an archive of the short films depicting the stories of the survivors shown as each of six torches is lit during the official Yom HaShoah ceremony that takes place at Yad Vashem
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum