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Encyclopedia > Holocaust survivor

There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here are, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II targeted by the Holocaust who survived until the end of the Holocaust and the war. The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but this is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list. Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France/Free France, United States, Canada, China, India, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8... Prior to and during World War II Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager or KZ) throughout the territory it controlled. ...

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Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors from Holocaust Survivors' Network

  • Peter Daniels,(1935-) Young Jewish boy, currently sponsoring Museum of Tolerance in L.A., California
  • Yehiel De-Nur, German Jewish writer
  • Charlotte Delbo, French writer
  • Stanisław Ehrlich (1907-1997) - Galicia-born Polish jurist
  • Jerzy Einhorn
  • Leo Eitinger (b. in Slovakia), professor of Psychiatry at University of Oslo, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
  • Henryk Fenigstein (?-1993), Polish survivor of two camps, liberated on way to a third, survived by virtue of being a doctor, became Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, well known in Canada
  • Leopold Engleitner (b. 1905)
  • Wanda Jakubowska
  • Simone Veil, French politician
  • Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg in Slovakia, 1924) escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.

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Individuals whose parents or ancestor were Holocaust survivors

Péter Frankl (b. ... Shlomo Ganzfried (Solomon ben Joseph Ganzfried; Hungary, 1804 to 1886) was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha (Jewish law), the Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh (Hebrew: קיצור שולחן ערוך, Abbreviated Shulkhan Arukh), by which title he is also known. ... The aluminium clad east face of the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester. ... György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen. ... Geddy Lee in concert with Rush. ... Rush is a Canadian progressive rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart (IPA: ). Rush formed in the summer of 1968, in Willowdale, Ontario (now part of Toronto) by Lifeson, Lee, and John Rutsey. ... poo ... Bergen-Belsen, sometimes referred to as just Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. ... Natalie Hershlag (Hebrew: נטלי הרשלג) (born June 9, 1981), better known by her stage name, Natalie Portman (Hebrew :נטלי פורטמן), is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning Israeli-American actress. ... Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון) (June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) was a combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force and later Israels first astronaut and space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107 (Columbia) who was killed when the craft disintegrated during reentry into the Earths atmosphere. ... Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space shuttle in NASAs orbital fleet. ... Shuttle debris falling over Texas, on Time cover The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was the disintegration of the Space Shuttle Columbia over Texas on February 1, 2003, during reentry into the Earths atmosphere on its 28th mission, STS-107. ... Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning comic memoir, Maus. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ... Cover For other uses, see Maus (disambiguation). ... Henry Winkler as The Fonz in Happy Days. ... Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко) (born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and statesman. ...

Communities

The Shanghai ghetto was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Shanghai where about 20,000 Jewish refugees, mainly from Nazi Germany and Austria, survived the Holocaust in the city occupied by Imperial Japan. ... The Mir Yeshiva (or Mirrer Yeshiva) is a Haredi Judaism yeshiva mainly devoted to teaching Talmud. ...

Fictional people

Binjamin Wilkomirski was a name Bruno Grosjean (born 1941) adopted when he took on the mantle of a Holocaust survivor. ... Magneto (real name unknown, alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) is a Marvel Comics character, known as the main adversary of the X-Men. ... Sonnenschein refers to: Carl Sonnenschein, see German article Edward Adolf Sonnenschein Franz Leopold Sonnenschein, see German article Fred Sonnenschein, see Frank Zander and its de:Frank Zander Hugo Sonnenschein (1889–1953) Simone Sonnenschein, see German article Im Sonnenschein, see German article Wochenend und Sonnenschein Sonnenscheindauer, see German article see... Sunshine is an award winning 1999 film directed, written and produced by István Szabó. It follows three generations of a Jewish family during the changes to Austria-Hungary from the beginning of the 20th century to the period after World War II. The central male protagonist of all three...

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