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] Theatre and film
- Roman Polanski - filmmaker and actor
[edit] Literature and publishing
- Magda Herzberger - poet and author
- Eva Geiringer Schloss - Daughter of Eric Geiringer and Fritzi Geiringer Frank. Anne Frank's future step-sister. Wrote EVA'S STORY by Eva Geiringer Schloss.
- 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.
- Abram Korn (1923-1972) - writer of Abe's Story: A Holocaust Memoir. He died before publishing it, so his son edited and published it.
- 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
- Tadeusz Sobolewicz (b. 1923, Poznań) - Polish actor, author of But I Survived, survivor of six concentration camps
- 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.
[edit] Music
Living:
- Nelly Ben-Or (born 1933) - pianist and Professor
Deceased:
- Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor
- Bill Graham (1931-1991) - rock impresario
- Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - French composer
- Władysław Szpilman (1911 - 2000) - pianist and composer
- Natalia Karp (1911-2007) - German pianist
[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
[edit] 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
- 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 - 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].
[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
- 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
- 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
[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
- 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.
[edit] 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
- 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
- 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
[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) - worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center
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 relatives survived, related to Ivan Czuchrak and Brad Clark
[edit] See also
[edit] Documentaries about Holocaust survivors
[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)
- "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)
