Holocaust Survivors

Auschwitz was a major death camp in the holocaust                                                                 survivor numbers

     The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy to Jews and others who were punished. 11 million people were killed in the Holocaust. Today, 350,000 Survivors are still alive. People that survived were very emotional at first to talk about the situation but now they share there stories in many different ways. There are multiple books, movies, and documentations that people have made about their life stories. Surviving the Holocaust is a phenomenal experience and everyone gives so much credit to the people that did."for many years i found it too difficult to talk about the cruelty and viciousness that i had witnessed."  

                                        women going to gas chambers  

Holocaust Survivors online

     Many people that survived the Holocaust tell their stories online. Solomon Radasky was the only one out of 78 family members that survived the camps(Menszer). He was sent to three different camps like Buna, Dachau, and Auschwitz(lessons)."I was taken to get a number tattooed on my arm. I got Number 128232. The separate numbers add up to 18. In the Hebrew language the letters of the alphabet stand for numbers. The letters which stand for the number eighteen spell out the Hebrew word "Chai,"which means life"(Menszer). Jeannie Burk rode in a street car to the line and tried to live with Christian families but many slammed the door in her face afraid of being killed for helping a Jew. People went through concentraction camps they were sprayed with DDT, rat pesticide(lessons). Then she was shaved and got a yellow streak from the top of her head down her back(Menzer). Without any stories it would be harder to understand the circumstances and everything that they had to go through.

Holocaust Survivors in Books

Clara Isaacman was born in Romania. She tried to escape from Belgium, but was caught by Nazi soliders(clara). Her family, except her brother, who was taken to Auschwitz, went into hiding(clara). Her family was in hiding for two and a half years. Her brother was eventually killed in Auschwitz(clara). She stayed with the Adams family while the rest of her family stayed somewhere else(clara). So many people risked their lives to help others in need. Numerous people were betrayed by their friends because they were scared of being killed(lessons)."Now Clara Issacman is a Hebrew teacher, but died of cancer on Novermber 16 2001. She was 80 years old"(clara).

Memorials for Holocaust Victims 

                                                                                                  Germany Holocaust Memorial

The memorial to the Holocaust's six million Jewish victims is located near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Germany(Holocaust). 2.3 million people have visited the documentation center field of 2,700 gray slabs in  Berlin since it opened in May 2005(Holocaust). Another popular Holocaust Memorial is the United Sates Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC(Holocaust). Since its dedication in 1993, the Museum has welcomed nearly 30 million visitors, including more than nine million school children and 85 heads of state. Today 90 percent of the Museum’s visitors are not Jewish(Holocaust).  

• The Ani Ma'amin Holocaust Museum (Jerusalem)
• The Anne Frank House (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• The Auschwitz Jewish Center (Oświęcim, Poland)
• The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
• Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre (Nottinghamshire, England)
• The Budapest Holocaust Memorial Center (Budapest, Hungary)
• The Cape Town Holocaust Centre (Cape Town, South Africa)
• The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (Oradour-sur-Glane, France)
• The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance (Dallas, U.S.)
• The Children's Holocaust Memorial and Paper Clip Project at Whitwell Middle School (Whitwell, Tennessee, U.S.)
• The Cybrary of the Holocaust
• The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education & Tolerance (Dallas, U.S.)
• The Desert Holocaust Memorial (Palm Desert, California)
• The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg, Florida)
• The Forest of the Martyrs (Jerusalem)
• The Ghetto Fighters' House (Western Galilee, Israel)
• The Holocaust Awareness Museum
• The Holocaust History Project
• The Holocaust Memorial Center (Detroit, U.S.)
• The Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach (Miami Beach, U.S.)
• The Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco,U.S.)
• The Holocaust Museum Houston (Houston, U.S.)
• Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (Skokie, Illinois, U.S.)
• The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library (London)
• The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
• The Jewish Museum Holocaust and Research Centre (Melbourne, Australia)
• The Jewish Museum of Deportation and the Resistance (Mechelen, Belgium)
• The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (Vienna, Austria)
• Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial (Mauthausen, Austria)
• The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (Paris, France)
• The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Berlin, Germany)
• The Memorial to the Holocaust of Murdered Serbs and Jews in Jasenovac (Jasenovac, Croatia)
• The Memorial Museum for Children of Izieu (Izieu, France)
• The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre (Montreal, Canada)
• The Museum of Tolerance (Los Angeles)
• The New England Holocaust Memorial (Boston, U.S.)
• The New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

         The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria (Bulgaria)

• The Shoah Memorial, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Paris, France)
•  The Stockholm Holocaust Monument (Stockholm, Sweden)
• The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation at University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
• The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, D.C.)
• The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (Vancouver, Canada)
• The Virginia Holocaust Museum (Richmond, Virginia, USA)
• Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority (Jerusalem, Israel)
• Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York)
• Holocaust Center of Northern California (San Francisco)
• Holocaust Museum Houston (Houston, Texas)
• Holocaust Memorial for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.)
• Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires (Holocaust Memorial Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Museo della Deportazione (Prato, Italy)
• Holocaust memorial at the site of Klooga concentration camp (Klooga, Estonia)
• Memorial at the site of Kalevi-Liiva (Jägala, Estonia)
• Holocaust memorial outside of the archaeological site of Kerameikos (Athens, Greece)

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Clara Isaacman, 80, Holocaust Educator . N.p.: ProQuest LLC., 2001. Print.

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