List of Holocaust survivors
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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 people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.
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[edit] Individuals
- Gizella Abrams - Educational Speaker
- Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor
- Aharon Appelfeld, novelist and poet
- Jacob Avigdor, orthodox rabbi and author
- Dina Babbitt
- Leo Baeck (1873-1956) - rabbi, a leader of progressive Judaism
- Noami Ban- Educational Speaker
- Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist
- Joseph Bau, graphic artist and poet
- Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist
- Livia Bitton-Jackson - writer of I Have Lived a Thousand Years
- Thomas Blatt, writer
- Léon Blum (1872-1950) - French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother, René, was killed)
- Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) - Polish author
- George Brown (born 1929) - tells his story of the Holocaust
- George Brady (Jiří Brady), elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradová
- Trygve Bratteli, "Nacht und Nebel" prisoner, (including at Sachsenhausen concentration camp), later Prime Minister of Norway
- Paul Celan, poet
- Albert Court Zimmermann, socialist
- Robert Clary, actor
- Józef Cyrankiewicz, later a Polish communist political figure, premier, and Head of State
- Peter Daniels,(1935-) - currently sponsoring Museum of Tolerance in L.A., California
- Yehiel De-Nur, German Jewish writer
- Charlotte Delbo, French writer
- Ludwig Draxler, Austrian politician
- 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
- Ruth Elias - Author of Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
- Leopold Engleitner (b. 1905)
- David Faber, author of Because of Romek.
- Fania Fénelon, French singer, author of the book "Playing for Time" about her experiences in Birkenau
- Leon Feldhendler (lead the escape from Sobibor)
- 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
- Ádám & Iván Fischer
- Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
- Hans Frankenthal (1926-1999) author and activist
- Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and author of Man's Search for Meaning
- Tuviah Friedman
- Roman Frister, Author of The Cap or the Price of a Life.
- Peter 'Fritz' Gadiel, artist partially responsible for the documentation of events in the Kovno Ghetto.
- Eva Galler, escaped death train going to Belzec death camp (Jan 1, 1924-)
- Jack Garfein, motion picture and theater director.
- Elfriede Geiringer (1905-1998) - mother of Eva Schloss, married Otto Frank in 1953
- Einar Gerhardsen, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, became Prime Minister of Norway.
- Richard Glazar (1920-1997) author of Trap With a Green Fence
- Nesse Godin, Lithuanian speaker and teacher of the Holocaust.
- Yosef Goldman, author and scholar of Jewish American History.
- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
- Karl Gorath, German homosexual imprisoned at Auschwitz
- Hannah Goslar, Childhood friend of Anne Frank, published book (with Alison Leslie Gold) about her friendship with Anne Frank and her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen
- Bill Graham, rock impresario
- Leon Greenman, (b. 1910, London, England), barber, market trader and activist. Author of the books Leon Greenman, Auschwitz Survivor 98288: A Resource for Holocaust Education (ISBN 0-9511613-8-5) and An Englishman in Auschwitz (ISBN 0-85303-424-9)
- Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician
- Kitty Hart-Moxon - Writer and Holocaust educator
- Anna Heilman, conspirator in plot to blow up Auschwitz Crematorium IV, author of Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman
- Fanya Heller, author of Love in a World of Sorrow
- Arek Hersh, Polish writer, author of A Message from History
- William Herskovic, Holocaust hero, philanthropist, Bel Air Camera founder
- Wanda Jakubowska
- Herbert Jehle, (1907 - 1983) noted physicist, friend to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Albert Einstein
- Alicia Appleman-Jurman, memoirist, writer of Alicia: My Story
- David Katz, memoirist and speaker
- Miklos Kanitz
- Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
- Alexander Kimel, engineer, memoirist, creator of award-winning, website with frequently cited and translated essays Holocaust Understanding and Prevention
- Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
- Flora Klein, mother of Gene Simmons, from KISS
- Walter Kohn, Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and resistance fighter, a founder of Żegota antifascist underground
- Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki, Polish cardinal
- Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (1927 - 2001) Polish fabric artist
- Tom Lantos, Hungarian-born American politician
- Yisrael Meir Lau, former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel
- Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz survivor and author of Five Chimneys
- Primo Levi
- Paul Löbe (1875-1967), politician
- Branko Lustig, (born June 9, 1932) is a prominent film producer, winner of two Oscar Awards: Schindler's List in 1993 and Gladiator in 2001
- Jean-Marie Lustiger
- Henryk Mandelbaum
- Robert Maxwell
- Olivier Messiaen French composer
- Stephen Nasser, author (My Brother's Voice)
- Paul Oppenheimer - Writer
- Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Solomon Perel
- Poldek Pfefferberg
- Witold Pilecki
- Roman Polański, Polish film director
- Michael Podchlebnik, one of the two survivors of Chelmno
- Helen Raab, survived Auschwitz
- Werner Reich, Holocaust speaker
- Philip Riteman, (1925 - ?), was liberated by American soldiers. Holocaust Speaker.
- Josef Rosensaft (1911-1975), business executive and leader of Holocaust survivors [1]
- Tibor Rubin Congressional Medal of Honor
- Jan Saudek (1935- ) Czech art photographer
- Georg Schafer
- Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld
- Eva Schloss (née Geiringer) (1929- ), childhood acquaintance and posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank
- Umberto Schoeps[2], one of the Selvino children
- Kurt Schumacher
- Pierre Seel
- Israel Shahak
- David Shaltiel
- Ota Šik
- Gabriele Silten, author of "Between Two Worlds", "High Towers Crumbling", "Is the War Over?", and "Dark Shadows, Bright Life"
- Sigmund Sobolewski, Polish Roman Catholic internee at Auschwitz, subject of the book Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes.
- Paul Spiegel (1937-2006), president of Germany's Central Council of Jews
- Simon Srebnik, one of the two survivors of Chelmno
- Balys Sruoga
- Mike Staner, Writer
- Jacques Strumza, engineer, "the violinist of Auschwitz"
- Józef Szajna Polish artist
- Władysław Szpilman, pianist and composer
- Władysław Ślebodziński
- Karl Targownik
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz
- Joel Teitelbaum Satmar rebbi
- Corrie ten Boom, Dutch Christian who was arrested with her family and sent to Ravensbrück concetration camp for harboring Jews
- Brother Theodore, (Theodore Gottlieb) actor, humorist, metaphysicist, podiatrist
- Bruno Touschek
- Jack Tramiel, entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines
- 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.
- Jean Wahl
- Al Weiner, Holocaust speaker
- David Weiss Halivni, rabbi, Talmudist
- Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, rabbi
- Gerda Weissmann Klein, author of memoir All But My Life
- Elie Wiesel, author (particularly of Night) and political activist
- Simon Wiesenthal, worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
- Ernst Wiechert, Catholic writer
- Otto Wolf, Jewish boy hiding from the Nazis, published diary
- Eddy Wynschenk (1927-2003), Holocaust speaker
[edit] Individuals whose parents or ancestor were Holocaust survivors
- Rosalie Abella, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
- Helen Epstein, journalist and author of Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History
- Norman Finkelstein, college professor
- Helen Fremont, author of After Long Silence
- Daniel Ganzfried, Hungarian-Swiss author and grandson of Shlomo Ganzfried [3]
- Rosalie Gerut, composer and singer
- Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- Mila Kunis, actress known for her role in That '70s Show
- Geddy Lee, born Gary Lee Weinrib, lead vocalist and bassist of Rush. Parents were Morris Weinrib and Manya (Mary) Rubenstein, released from Dachau and Bergen-Belsen respectively when those camps were liberated by Allied troops.
- Daniel Libeskind, architect
- György Ligeti, composer
- Goapele Mohlabane, singer, daughter of Israeli mother
- Natalie Portman, Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- Ilan Ramon, first Israeli astronaut, died when Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry. (father's name was Wolferman)
- Menachem Z. Rosensaft, American attorney and activist
- Rochelle Rubinstein, Canadian artist
- Debbie Schlussel, conservative attorney and columnist
- Gene Simmons of KISS
- Andrea Simon- Writer, granddaughter of survivors
- Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series Maus about his parents' Holocaust experience.
- Henry Winkler, actor and producer
- Viktor Yushchenko, president of Ukraine
[edit] Communities
[edit] Fictional people
- Bruno Grosjean, "Binjamin Wilkomirski"
- Rebecca Kaplan, The Young and the Restless
- Magneto
- Nyssa Raatko
- Sonnenschein family of Budapest (Sunshine)
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Rosensaft.asp
- ^ http://www.ashokan.com
- ^ http://home.earthlink.net/~paulmlieberman/genealogy/f_11.html
[edit] See also
[edit] 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)
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