Halina Herman
Halina is a child survivor of the Holocaust, born in Warsaw, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. Most of her family, including her father, a physician from Warsaw,
Rachael Cerrotti
Rachael Cerrotti is an award-winning photographer, writer, educator and audio producer as well as the inaugural Storyteller in Residence for USC Shoah Foundation. For over a decade, she has been
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just 16 years old in 1944 when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known. As a
Sol Factor
Sol Factor was born in a DP Hospital in Munich, Germany in June 1946. For reasons unknown to him, he was separated from his natural mother two weeks after his
Helen Kaltman
Helen was two years old when World War II began. Her family fled to the Soviet Union, where her mother had family. They were sent to Siberia; after a year,
Eva Moreimi
Eva grew up in Czechoslovakia as an only child to two Holocaust survivor parents. Shortly after graduating from Economic School, she escaped from the communist regime and immigrated to the
Abraham Peck
Abraham J. Peck is Research Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine and a lecturer at Bates College. He is the author of “Queen City Refuge: An Oral
Rosette
Rosette, a Holocaust survivor, was born in France, and hidden by Catholic farmers while her mother was a part of the French Underground. Unaware of her Jewish heritage until she
Dr. Anna Ornstein
After Germany invaded Hungary, Anna and her parents were eventually sent to a large ghetto in Miskolc. From there, Anna, her parents and grandmother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
Vivian & Monroe Price
Vivian and Monroe spent childhood years in Cincinnati, after their family escaped from Vienna, Austria as the Nazis came to power. Monroe was just a baby when his father was
Ira Segalewitz
Ira was born in Poland. Shortly after World War II started, the area he lived in was occupied by Russia. When Nazis began their attack on Russia, he and his
Ellen Bottner
Ellen Bottner, a Holocaust survivor, grew up in Germany under the Third Reich. She describes her experiences on the Kindertransport, life under refuge with a foster family in England, the
