Holocaust survivors
Those who remained
Holocaust survivors are Jews and others who lived through the Nazi genocide of 1933–1945.
The term typically refers to those who endured concentration camps, death marches, or hiding, though it sometimes extends to refugees who escaped Nazi-occupied territories.
As this generation ages, their testimonies have become central to Holocaust education and memorial culture: My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor who rarely spoke of her experiences.
- ghettosIsolated, impoverished urban districts
- concentration campsFacilities for mass detention
- death marchCoerced exhausting journey
- bearing witnessObserving and later attesting
- survivor guiltDistress from enduring when others perished
memorials · trauma · generational trauma · World War II · genocide · reparations · testimony · Elie Wiesel · Kindertransport · second generation · oral histories · Nazi regime · hidden children · Shoah · resilience · never again · Auschwitz · liberation
- American Jewrysynagogues, rabbis, kosher, Yiddish, Hebrew
- HolocaustAuschwitz, concentration camps, gas chambers, Shoah, Anne Frank
- IsraelIsrael, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Hebrew
- Jewish HistoryAbraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Israel
- Dutch JewsOtto Frank, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank, Spinoza, Amsterdam
- Jewish charitiesJewish charities, kosher meals, burial society
Holocaust survivorsNazi collaborators
People who assisted fascist occupiers