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 were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of these lovers survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list. This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. ... This is a list of people who helped Jewish people and others to escape from the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, often called rescuers. The list is not exhaustive, concentrating on famous cases, or people who saved the lives of many potential victims. ... Manifestations Slavery Racial profiling Lynching Hate speech Hate crime Genocide (examples) Ethnocide Ethnic cleansing Pogrom Race war Religious persecution Gay bashing Blood libel Paternalism Police brutality Movements Policies Discriminatory Race / Religion / Sex segregation Apartheid Redlining Internment Anti-discriminatory Emancipation Civil rights Desegregation Integration Equal opportunity Counter-discriminatory Affirmative action Racial... Book cover The Destruction of the European Jews is a three-volume work published in 1961 by historian Raul Hilberg. ... Functionalism versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich, such as foreign policy. ... “Shoah” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Genocide (disambiguation). ... Belligerent military occupation occurs when the control and authority over a territory belonging to a state passes to a hostile army. ... Black: Zenith of the Axis Powers Capital Not applicable Political structure Military alliance Historical era World War II  - Tripartite Pact September 27, 1940  - Anti-Comintern Pact November 25, 1936  - Pact of Steel May 22, 1939  - Dissolved 1945 This article is about the independent countries (states) that comprised the Axis powers. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Piles of bodies in a liberated Nazi concentration camp in Germany Prior to and during World War II, Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, abbreviated KZ or KL) throughout the territories it controlled. ...

Definitions of "Holocaust survivor"

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In addition to the victims of the Holocaust who perished under Nazi regime and their collaborators during 1933-45, it is the living victims who are referred to as "Holocaust survivors." It is important to understand which persons are generally considered a "Holocaust survivor." Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...

The following sources venture to define the term "Holocaust survivor:"

By Yad Vashem: New Yad Vashem museum building designed by Safdie Yad Vashem (Hebrew: ‎; Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority) is Israels official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israels parliament. ...

"Jews who survived the Holocaust period in Nazi-occupied Europe. It is obvious that Jews who managed to live through the mass exterminations carried out by the Nazis are 'Survivors.' However, sometimes the term Survivor also includes Jews who did not actually come into direct contact with the Nazi murder machine; some Jews fled Germany before the Nazis rose to national power, others escaped Germany after Adolf Hitler came to power but before he and the Nazis put the 'final solution' into effect, while others were persecuted not by the Nazis themselves, but by partners of the Nazis (in Nazi satellite countries or by Nazi collaborators). All of these are often considered to be 'Survivors,' as well"

By the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

"The Museum defines a survivor as a person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political polices of the Nazis and their allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes, among others, refugees and people in hiding."

By the Holocaust Historiography Project:

"A Holocaust survivor will be defined as any Jew who lived in a country at the time when it was under Nazi regime, under Nazi occupation, or under regime of Nazi collaborators, as well as any Jew who fled due to the above regime or occupation."

By the Holocaust Global Registry:

"Who are survivors? All people who were persecuted during the years of Nazi terror (1933-45), and managed to survive by whatever means possible; all who suffered persecution because they were Jewish, and all who were labeled as Jews by those in power at that time; all adults and all children, including those who were hidden, or were adopted by concerned and righteous families; all those who were forced to leave their homes to escape persecution, and found safe haven elsewhere."

Literature and publishing

• Magda Herzberger - poet and author
• Aharon Appelfeld - novelist and poet
• Werner Barasch - author of Survivor: Autobiographical Fragments 1938 - 1946
• Fanie Gusz (Fanny Goose) - author of Rising from the Holocaust
• Marion Baumann-Parkurst - author of Searching Survivor and the answer I found
• Louis Begley (born 1933) - U.S. lawyer and novelist
• Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist
• Thomas Blatt - writer
• Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) - Polish author
• George Brady (Jiří Brady) - elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradová
• Paul Celan (1920-1970) - poet
• Yehiel De-Nur (1909-2001) - German Jewish writer
• Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) - French writer
• David Faber - author of Because of Romek.
• Leon Feldhandler - Organiser of resistance in Sobibor death camp, murdered after liberation in Lublin in 1945
• Fania Fénelon - French singer, author of the book Playing for Time about her experiences in Birkenau
• Otto Frank - father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
• Viktor Frankl - Austrian psychiatrist and author of Man's Search for Meaning
• Roman Frister - Author of The Cap or the Price of a Life.
• Richard Glazar (1920-1997) - author of Trap With a Green Fence
• Yosef Goldman - author and scholar of Jewish American History.
• Fanya Heller - author of Love in a World of Sorrow
• Eugene Hollander - author of From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story
• Arek Hersh - Polish writer, author of A Message from History
• Simon Jeruchim - French writer, author of "Hidden in France" and "Frenchy"
• Alicia Appleman-Jurman - memoirist, writer of Alicia: My Story
• Imre Kertész - Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
• Gerda Weissmann Klein - author of All But My Life. The book was later used as a basis for One Survivor Remembers an Emmy and Academy Award winning documentary.
• Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991) - novelist
• Olga Lengyel - author of Five Chimneys
• Robert Maxwell - media proprietor
• Filip Muller (born 1942) - author of " Three years in the gas chamber" survived Auschwitz
• Arnulf Øverland (1889-1968) - Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 1920) - literary critic
• Vladek Spiegelman - subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus
• Mike Staner - Writer
• Balys Sruoga - Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic
• Corrie Ten Boom - Author of The Hiding Place-died 1987.
• Stanislaw Hutyra - Polish gardener and miner. Born 1922 died 2000. Imprisoned in Dachau.
• Elie Wiesel - Nobel laureate author of Night, as well as Dawn and Day. Survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna before being liberated.
• Hannelore Wolf - author of 'I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree.Survived Lublin, Belzyce, Kraśnik, Budzyn, Wieliczka, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brünnlitz before being liberated.

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Paul Celan Paul Celan (November 23, 1920 – approximately April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. ... Yehiel De-Nur or Dinur, (De-Nur means of the fire in Hebrew) was born Yehiel Feiner on May 16, 1909, in Sosnowiec (Poland), near the German border. ... A stereotypical German The Germans (German: die Deutschen), or the German people, are a nation in the meaning an ethnos (in German: Volk), defined more by a sense of sharing a common German culture and having a German mother tongue, than by citizenship or by being subjects to any particular... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Charlotte Delbo, (August 10, 1913- March 1, 1985), was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance. ... David Faber in May 2006 David Faber (born approx. ... Fania Fénelon (born September 2, 1922 as Fania Goldstein; died December 19, 1983 in Paris) was a cabaret singer. ... Birkenau may mean the following. ... Otto Frank Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) was the father of Anne Frank and Margot Frank. ... Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( ) (June 12, 1929 – early March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl from the city of Frankfurt, who wrote a diary while in hiding with her family, the Van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War... Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph. ... Viktor Frankls 1946 book Mans Search for Meaning chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding a reason to live. ... Roman Frister (born 17th January 1928, Bielsko-Biala, Poland) wrote the Cap or the Price of a Life, an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists. ... Richard Glazar (November 29, 1920 – December 20, 1997, born Richard Goldschmid) was a Czech Jew who lived through World War II, one of only a few survivors of the death camp Treblinka. ... Yosef Goldman, a scholar of American Jewish History, is the author of the 2-volume reference work, “Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography” (2006). ... The history of the Jews in the United States comprises a theological dimension, with a three-way division into Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. ... Fanya Gottesfeld Heller is a noted Holocaust survivor, author and philanthropist. ... Eugene Hollander was a Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust. ... Arek Hersh is a survivor of the Holocaust. ... Alicia Jurman (Alicia Appleman-Jurman being her married name), born 1930, is a Polish-born memoirist and has spoken out about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story. ... Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is a Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. Kertész best-known work, Fatelessness (Sorstalanság... Gerda Weissman Klein (b. ... Jerzy KosiÅ„ski (June 18, 1933 – May 3, 1991) was a novelist of Jewish origin, born in Łódź, Poland. ... For other persons named Robert Maxwell, see Robert Maxwell (disambiguation). ... Arnulf Øverland (April 27, 1889 - March 25, 1968) was a Norwegian author born in Kristiansund and raised in Bergen. ... Prisoners of Sachsenhausen, 19 Dec 1938 Sachsenhausen (IPA: ) was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. ... Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June 1920, at WÅ‚ocÅ‚awek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47. ... Vladek Spiegelman (on the left), as depicted on the cover of Maus Vladek Spiegelman (October 11, 1906-August 18, 1982) is the subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, written and illustrated by his son, Art Spiegelman. ... The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... For other uses, see Maus (disambiguation). ... Mieczyslaw (Mike) Staner (born 1924 in Krakow)† 29. ... 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Music

• Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor
• Nelly Ben-Or (1933- ) - pianist and Professor
• Bill Graham - rock impresario
• Olivier Messiaen - French composer
• Władysław Szpilman - pianist and composer
• Natalia Karp (1911-2007) - German pianist

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Humanities

• Emil Fackenheim - philosopher and theologian
• Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003) -French jurist and educator, member of the French Resistance
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz - Polish philosopher
• Jean Wahl - French philosopher

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Mathematics and natural sciences

• Alexander Grothendieck - mathematician
• Władysław Ślebodziński (1884-1972) - Polish mathematician
• Mieczyslaw Birencwajg later Menakhem Ben-Yami (1926-) - Israeli fishing technologist and ecologist
• Liviu Librescu (1930-2007) - scientist and professor, died during the Virginia Tech Massacre while holding off the gunman to protect his students
• Victor Moritz Goldschmidt - chemist
• Walter Kohn - Nobel laureate in chemistry
• Primo Levi - chemist, Italian novelist
• Israel Shahak - chemist
• Bruno Touschek - Austrian physicist
• Georges Charpak - Nobel laureate in Physics^{Superscript text}

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Medicine, psychology, pedagogy

• Jerzy Einhorn - medical doctor, researcher, politician
• Leo Eitinger - professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
• Berthold Epstein - professor of pediatrics from Prague, conducted research on Noma while at Auschwitz
• Erna Furman - psycoanalyst, known mainly for her work on grief in children
• Rose Warfman -nurse, heroine of the French Resistance, survivor of Auschwitz, lives in England
• Eric Kandel - neurobiologist, Nobel laureate
• Daniel Kahneman - psychologist, Nobel laureate
• David Katz - psychologist
• Henry Morgentaler - doctor and abortion activist, now lives in Canada
• Karl Targownik - psychiatrist
• Michel Thomas -- linguist, language-teacher, American CIC Agent, awarded Silver Star in 2004
• Isidoro Franco Vabani - (1896-1976) optometrist^{[citation needed]}.
• Joshua Howard Shrock - (1923-) Jewish Doctor^{[citation needed]}.

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Theology, spirituality, religion

• Jacob Avigdor - orthodox rabbi and author
• Leo Baeck (1873-1956) - rabbi, a leader of progressive Judaism
• Leopold Engleitner - Jehovah's Witness, religious speaker
• David Feuerwerker (1912-1980) -French Rabbi, member of the French Resistance
• Franciszek Gajowniczek‎ - Polish soldier whose life was spared by the sacrifice of Saint Maximilian Kolbe.
• Ben-Zion Gold
• Lipa Goldman - Orthodox Rabbi
• Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki - Polish cardinal
• Max Friediger - Chief Rabbi of Denmark. Deported October 2, 1943 to Theresienstadt.
• Menachem Mendel Taub, Grand Rebbe of Kaliv. Survivor of Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz Death Camp.
• Yisrael Meir Lau - former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, current Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
• Jean-Marie Lustiger - Roman Catholic archbishop
• Sigmund Sobolewski, Polish Roman Catholic internee at Auschwitz, subject of the book Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes
• Joel Teitelbaum - Grand Rebbe of Satmar
• David Weiss Halivni - rabbi, Talmudist
• Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl - rabbi of Nitra
• Ernst Wiechert - Catholic writer

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Politics, resistance

• Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist
• Léon Blum (1872-1950) - French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother, René, was killed)
• Trygve Bratteli - "Nacht und Nebel" prisoner, (including at Sachsenhausen concentration camp), later Prime Minister of Norway
• Józef Cyrankiewicz - a Polish communist political figure, premier, and Head of State
• Ludwig Draxler, Austrian politician
• Einar Gerhardsen (1897-1987) - survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, became Prime Minister of Norway
• Kurt Julius Goldstein - XI International Brigade, Buchenwald resister. writer and author.
• Anna Heilman, conspirator in plot to blow up Auschwitz Crematorium IV, author of Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman
• Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Polish writer and resistance fighter, a founder of Żegota antifascist underground
• Tom Lantos - Hungarian-born American politician
• Paul Löbe - politician
• Odd Nansen - architect and humanist, founder of Nansenhjelpen and UNICEF
• Martin Nielsen (1900-1962) - member of the Danish parliament for the Communist Party of Denmark. Survived 15 months in Stutthof and 6 weeks of ensuing death march.
• Kurt Schumacher (1895-1952) - former leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
• Ota Šik, Czechoslovak economist and politician
• Simon Srebnik - one of the two survivors of Chelmno
• Corrie ten Boom - Dutch Christian who was arrested with her family and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for harboring Jews
• Simone Veil - French politician
• Rudolf Vrba - escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
• Jack Tramiel - entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines
• Elie Wiesel - author (particularly of Night) and political activist
• Alfred Wetzler - escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.

WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Bartoszewski WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Bartoszewski (b. ... Léon Blum Léon Blum (9 April 1872 - 30 March 1950), was the Prime Minister of France three times: from 1936 to 1937, for one month in 1938, and from December 1946 to January 1947. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... René Blum (Paris, 13 March 1878 - Auschwitz, 30 April 1943), choreographer, was the founder of the Ballet de lOpera at Monte Carlo. ... Trygve Martin Bratteli (January 11, 1910 - November 20, 1984) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. ... Nacht und Nebel (German for Night and Fog) was a directive (German: ) of Adolf Hitler on December 7, 1941 signed and implemented by Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Wilhelm Keitel, resulting in kidnapping and disappearance of many political activists throughout Nazi Germanys occupied territories. ... Prisoners of Sachsenhausen, 19 Dec 1938 Sachsenhausen (IPA: ) was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. ... Józef Cyrankiewicz (April 23, 1911 - January 20, 1989) was a Polish communist political figure. ... This article is about the form of society and political movement. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...   (born on May 10, 1897 - September 19, 1987) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party of Norway. ... Prisoners of Sachsenhausen, 19 Dec 1938 Sachsenhausen (IPA: ) was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1950. ... Kurt Julius Goldstein (November 3, 1914 is a German journalist and a former broadcast director born in Dortmund, Germany. ... This article is under construction. ... Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum, referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, is one of the surviving Auschwitz ex-prisoners who were in on the plot to blow up the crematoria. ... Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built near the town of Oświęcim, by Nazi Germany during World War II. Rarely, it may refer to the Polish town of Oświęcim (called by the Germans Auschwitz) itself. ... Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1890 - 1968), Polish author and resistance fighter, is best known for her wartime efforts to help the Polish Jews. ... Å»egota (pronounced [ʒε:gÉ”ta], also spelled Zhegota, Zegota) was the codename for the Council to Aid the Jews (Rada Pomocy Å»ydom), an underground organisation in German-occupied Poland from 1942 to 1945. ... Thomas Peter Tom Lantos, Ph. ... Paul Löbe (born December 14, 1875 in Liegnitz (Schlesien), died August 3, 1967 in Bonn) was a German politician (SPD). ... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ... Martin Nielsen (1900 - 1962) was a Danish politician, managing editor, member of parliament for the Communist Party of Denmark and Holocaust survivor. ... The Rigsdag was the name of the Parliament of Denmark from 1849 to 1953. ... Not to be confused with Communist Party in Denmark. ... Stutthof (Sztutowo) was the first concentration camp built by the Nazi Germany regime outside of Germany. ... Dachau concentration-camp inmates on a death march through a German village in April 1945. ... Dr Kurt Schumacher (13 October 1895 - 20 August 1952), was the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the early years of the German Federal Republic. ... Ota Å ik (September 11, 1919 – August 22, 2004) was a Czech economist and politician. ... Simon Srebnik was one of two people to survive the Nazi death camp of Chelmno. ... Cornelia Johanna Arnolda ten Boom, generally known as Corrie ten Boom, (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. Ten Boom co-wrote her autobiography, The Hiding Place, which was later made into a movie... View of the barracks at Ravensbrück Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. ... Simone Veil Simone Veil (born Simone Annie Jacob, July 13, 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who currently serves as a member of the Constitutional Council of France. ... Dr. Rudolf Vrba in 1997. ... Alfred Wetzler, alias Josef Lanik (1918-199?) was a Slovakian Jew who was one of the few people known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp. ... Jack Tramiel (born December 13, 1928[1]) is a businessman, famous for founding Commodore International, manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore 64, and Commodore Amiga home computers, and later President and CEO of Atari Corp. ... Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, an electronics company who was a major player in the 1980s home computer field. ... Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928)[1] is a writer, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. ... Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ... Alfred Wetzler, alias Josef Lanik (1918-199?) was a Slovakian Jew who was one of the few people known to have escaped from the Auschwitz death camp. ... Dr. Rudolf Vrba in 1997. ...

Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust

• Nelly Ben-Or - musician and Holocaust speaker
• Philip Bialowitz- Sobibor escape participant; Holocaust speaker
• Marion Blumenthal Lazan- speaker and writer
• Hans Frankenthal - author and activist
• Nesse Godin - Lithuanian speaker and teacher about the Holocaust
• Karl Gorath - German homosexual imprisoned at Auschwitz
• Elly Gotz - educational speaker
• Leon Greenman - anti-fascism campaigner
• Kitty Hart-Moxon - Writer and Holocaust educator
• Kurt Herman - Holocaust Speaker, President of Brith Sholom
• William Herskovic - Holocaust hero, philanthropist, Bel Air Camera founder
• Miklos Kanitz
• Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
• Henryk Mandelbaum - concentration camp rebel and escapee
• Jack Mandelbaum
• Solomon Perel - mistaken for a German gentile and inducted in Hitler Youth, author of memoir Europa, Europa
• Poldek Pfefferberg
• Josef Rosensaft - business executive and leader of Holocaust survivors
• Pierre Seel - homosexual speaker
• Sigmund Sobolewski - Polish Catholic anti-fascist campaigner against Holocaust denial
• Paul Spiegel - president of Germany's Central Council of Jews
• Eddy Wynschenk - Holocaust speaker

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Military

• Tuviah Friedman - Nazi hunter
• Witold Pilecki - Polish soldier, founder of the resistance movement
• Tibor Rubin - Hungarian-born, American Congressional Medal of Honor
• David Shaltiel - district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
• Simon Wiesenthal - worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Bjørn Egge - Norwegian POW, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, later general in the Norwegian Army and President of the Norwegian Red Cross.

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See also

• List of victims of Nazism

This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. ...

Documentaries about Holocaust survivors

• The Boys of Buchenwald
• Marion's Triumph
• Pola's March
• Shoah dir. Claude Lanzmann

The Boys of Buchenwald is a documentary made in 2002 by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that examines how the child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp had to assimilate themselves back into normal society after having experienced the brutality of the Holocaust. ... Marions Triumph is a 2003 documentary that tells the story of Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a child Holocaust survivor, who recounts her painful childhoom memories in order to perserve history. ... Polas March is a 1998 documentary made by Jonathan Gruber about a Holocaust survivor, Pola Sussweins emotional trip back to her childhood home in Poland after fifty years spent in Israel, trying to forget her painful past. ... Shoah is a nine-hour documentary film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). ... Claude Lanzmann (born 1925 in Paris) is a Paris-based filmmaker. ...

External links

• "Sustained Through Terrible Trials", as told by Éva Josefsson (June 1, 1998)
• "They Triumphed Over Persecution" - the life stories of Ádám Szinger and Frieda Jess (March 1, 2003)
• "Searching Survivor and the Answer I Found" - The amazing survival story of Marion Baumann-Parkhurst (April, 2007)