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] Actors, actresses, and directors
Deceased
- Hana Maria Pravda (1918-2008) - actress, best known for her role as Mrs. Cohen in Survivors
Living
- Robert Clary (born 1926) - actor (Hogan's Heroes)
- Bettina Le Beau (born 1936) - actress
- Roman Polanski (born 1933) - filmmaker and actor
[edit] Literature and publishing
Deceased
- Jan Baraś-Komski (1915-2002) - illustrator and painter, arrived on the first prisoner transport to Auschwitz I, escaped two and a half years later, was arrested again and survived the Montelupich Prison, Auschwitz II, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Hersbruck and finally Dachau where he was liberated
- Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist
- Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) - Polish author
- Paul Celan (1920-1970) - poet
- Yehiel De-Nur (1909-2001) - German Jewish writer
- Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) - French writer
- Anthony Faramus (1920-1990) - author of The Faramus Story1954 and Journey Into darkness1990. Survived Fort de Romainville, Buchenwald and Mauthausen.
- Leon Feldhandler (1910-1945)- organiser of resistance in Sobibor death camp, murdered after liberation in Lublin in 1945
- Fania Fénelon (1908-1983) - French singer, author of the book Playing for Time about her experiences in Birkenau
- Otto Frank (1889-1980) - father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
- Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) - Austrian psychiatrist and author of Man's Search for Meaning
- Richard Glazar (1920-1997) - author of Trap With a Green Fence
- Stanislaw Hutyra (1922-2000) - Polish gardener and miner. Imprisoned in Dachau.
- Abram Korn (1923-1972) - writer of Abe's Story: A Holocaust Memoir but died before publishing it, so his son edited and published it.
- Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991) - novelist
- Vladimir Kralj (1901-1967) - Slovenian literary critic and novelist
- Olga Lengyel (1911-2001) - author of Five Chimneys
- Primo Levi (1919-1987) - Italian chemist and writer of fiction and non-fiction, including Se questo è un uomo (If this is a Man in the U.K., or Survival in Auschwitz in the U.S.)
- Robert Maxwell (1923-1991) - media proprietor
- Arnulf Øverland (1889-1968) - Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Dan Pagis (1930-1986) - Hebrew poet and professor of literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Balys Sruoga (1896-1947) - Lithuanian poet, playwright and critic
- Mike Staner (1924-2003) - writer
- Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) - author of The Hiding Place
Living
- Aharon Appelfeld (born 1932) - novelist and poet
- Alicia Appleman-Jurman (born 1930) - memoirist, writer of Alicia: My Story
- Marion Baumann-Parkurst (born 1912) - author of Searching Survivor and the answer I found
- Louis Begley (born 1933) - U.S. lawyer and novelist
- Thomas Blatt (born 1927) - writer
- George Brady (born 1928) - elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradyová
- Zoltan Zinn Collis (born 1940) - author
- David Faber (born 1926) - author of Because of Romek
- Roman Frister (born 1928) - Author of The Cap or the Price of a Life
- Eva Geiringer Schloss (born 1929) - daughter of Eric Geiringer and Fritzi Geiringer Frank. Her mother married Anne Frank's father after the war. Author of Eva's Story.
- Yosef Goldman (born 1942) - author and scholar of Jewish American History.
- Fanya Heller (born 1924) - author of Love in a World of Sorrow
- Arek Hersh (born 1928) - Polish author of A Message from History
- Magda Herzberger (born 1926) - poet and author
- Simon Jeruchim (born 1929) - French writer, author of Hidden in France and Frenchy
- Imre Kertész (born 1929) - Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
- Gerda Weissmann Klein (born 1924) - 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
- Arnošt Lustig (born 1926) - Czech novelist
- Filip Muller (born 1922) - author of Three years in the gas chamber survived Auschwitz
- Eva Olsson (born 1924) - Holocaust speaker, author of Unlocking the Doors
- Boris Pahor (born 1913) - Slovenian-Italian writer, survived Natzweiler-Struthof, Dachau and Bergen Belsen
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 1920) - literary critic
- Tadeusz Sobolewicz (born 1923) - Polish actor and author of But I Survived, survivor of six concentration camps
- Jerzy Urban (born 1933) - Polish publisher, satirist, politician
- Elie Wiesel (born 1928) - Nobel laureate author of Night, as well as Dawn and Day. Survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna before being liberated.
Unknown
- Werner Barasch - author of Survivor: Autobiographical Fragments 1938 - 1946
- Fanie Gusz (Fanny Goose) - author of Rising from the Holocaust
- Eugene Hollander - author of From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story
- Vladek Spiegelman - subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus
- Hannelore Wolf - author of I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree. Survived Lublin, Bełżyce, Kraśnik, Budzyn, Wieliczka, Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brünnlitz before being liberated.
[edit] Music
Deceased
- Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor
- Ivan Czuchrak (1909-1944) - Ukrainian composer
- Bill Graham (1931-1991) - rock impresario
- Natalia Karp (1911-2007) - pianist
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - French composer
- Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000) - pianist and composer
Living
- Nelly Ben-Or (born 1933) - pianist and professor
[edit] Humanities
Deceased
- Emil Fackenheim (1916-2003) - philosopher and theologian
- Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912-2003) - French jurist and educator, member of the French Resistance
- Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886-1980) - Polish philosopher
- Jean Wahl (1888-1974) - French philosopher
- Irena Sendler (1910-2008) - Polish Catholic Social Worker
Living
- Lydia Aran - scholar of Buddhism at Hebrew University
Other
Fania Fenelon David Beigelman Abraham Mosze Bernstein Abraham Cwi Dawidowicz Dawid Eisenstadt Marysia-Miriam Eisenstadt Israel Fajwiszis Tony Canbell Mordechaj Gebirtig Jakub Gerstein Bronislaw Gimpel Olivia Booth
[edit] Mathematics and natural sciences
- Mieczyslaw Birencwajg later Menakhem Ben-Yami (1926-) - Israeli fishing technologist and ecologist
- Georges Charpak - Nobel laureate in Physics
- Victor Moritz Goldschmidt - chemist
- Alexander Grothendieck - mathematician
- Walter Kohn - Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Liviu Librescu (1930-2007) - scientist and professor, died during the Virginia Tech Massacre while holding off the gunman to protect his students
- Israel Shahak - chemist
- Władysław Ślebodziński (1884-1972) - Polish mathematician
- Bruno Touschek - Austrian physicist
- Meir Wilchek - Israeli biochemist, Wolf prize laureate
[edit] 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 - psychoanalyst, known mainly for her work on grief in children
- Daniel Kahneman - psychologist, Nobel laureate
- Eric Kandel - neurobiologist, Nobel laureate
- David Katz - psychologist
- Henry Morgentaler - doctor and abortion activist, now lives in Canada
- Joshua Howard Shrock - (1923-) Jewish Doctor[citation needed].
- Karl Targownik - psychiatrist
- Michel Thomas - linguist, language-teacher, American CIC Agent, awarded Silver Star in 2004
- Isidoro Franco Vabani - (1896-1976) optometrist[citation needed].
- Rose Warfman - nurse, heroine of the French Resistance, survivor of Auschwitz, lives in England
- Ruth Westheimer - sex therapist
- Daniel Hawford - doctor psychoanalyst
[edit] 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 oldest living survivor
- David Feuerwerker (1912-1980) - French Rabbi, member of the French Resistance
- Max Friediger - Chief Rabbi of Denmark. Deported October 2, 1943 to Theresienstadt.
- 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
- 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
- Sigmund Sobolewski - Polish Roman Catholic internee at Auschwitz, subject of the book Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes
- Joel Teitelbaum {1887-1979} - Grand Rebbe of Satmar
- David Weiss Halivni - rabbi, Talmudist
- Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl {1903-1957}- rabbi of Nitra
- Ernst Wiechert - Catholic writer
- Kyle Parliament - Catholic Cardinal at St. Peters Basilicca
- Edit Weiss - doctor in training for seven years until Nazis kicked her out of medical school
[edit] 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
- Bronislaw Geremek - Polish politician and historian
- 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 (1928–2008) - Hungarian-born American politician. Was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1981 until his death in 2008. Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to have served in the US Congress.
- 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 (1919-2004) - 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
- Jack Tramiel - entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines
- Simone Veil - French politician
- Rudolf Vrba - escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
- Alfred Wetzler - escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
- Elie Wiesel - author (particularly of Night) and political activist
- Edit Weiss - doctor in training
- Jennifer Henning - survived
[edit] Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust
- Tauba Biterman - Holocaust speaker
- 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
- Rena Kornreich Gelissen - author and educator
- 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
- Peter L. Fischl - Poet (http://www.globalistfilms.com/holocaust-soliloquy.html)
- 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
- Clara Kramer - author of Clara's War and Holocaust speaker
- Henryk Mandelbaum - concentration camp rebel and escapee
- Jack Mandelbaum
- Ernest Michel - Survivor of Auschwitz, executive vice president of the UJA-Federation of New York from 1970 to 1989, author of memoir Promises to Keep
- Eva Olsson - Holocaust Speaker, author of Unlocking the Doors
- Liliane Pelzman - Educational Holocaust Speaker, author of the memoir And No More Sorrow Cold Tree Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008
- Solomon Perel - mistaken for a German gentile and inducted in Hitler Youth, author of memoir Europa, Europa
- Poldek Pfefferberg
- Olivia Booth
- Susan Pollack - Holocaust speaker, also spoke at the televised 60th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation
- Philip Riteman - Holocaust speaker for over 30 years, #98706
- 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
[edit] Military
Deceased
- Bjørn Egge (1918-2007) - Norwegian POW, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, later general in the Norwegian Army and President of the Norwegian Red Cross
- Witold Pilecki (1901-1948) - Polish soldier, founder of the resistance movement
- David Shaltiel (1903-1969) - district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war
- Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005) - later worked to capture Nazi war criminals
- Henry Rodrigues (c.1930-2007) - drafted into US Army after staying hidden from Nazis, toured Europe, established import business
- Eddie willner (1926-2008) - Survived Auschwitz, later volunteered for the US army, Vietnam veteran, reached the rank of major.
Living
- Tuviah Friedman (born 1922) - Nazi hunter
- Tibor Rubin (born 1929) - Hungarian-born, American Congressional Medal of Honor
Unknown
- Gregor Lisbach - Hungarian birth, moved into Buchenwald at age 18, no known direct relatives survived.
[edit] See also
[edit] Documentaries about Holocaust survivors
- The Boys of Buchenwald
- Marion's Triumph
- Pola's March
- Shoah dir. Claude Lanzmann
- One Survivor Remembers dir. Kary Antholis
[edit] External links
- [1](June 1, 2008)
- "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)
- "Intergenerational Healing in Holocaust Families and Breaking Holocaust Silences" - by Eva Metzger Brown, clinical psychologist and child survivor of the Holocaust (April, 2008)
