2024 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Ayana Touval
Holocaust survivor Ayana Touval was just a toddler when Nazi Germany and its allies invaded her native Yugoslavia.
Watch live to learn how Ayana and her family evaded capture by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Lost Children After the Holocaust
The children who walked through the doors of the medieval monastery in Germany had endured all manner of Nazi terror. One Jewish boy from Poland had survived more than a dozen labor or concentration camps. Underweight infants arrived without names or dates of birth. Learn about the relief workers and nuns at Kloster Indersdorf who cared for the children. Often there were no family members left who might claim them after World War II.
2024 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Peter Gorog
Enduring antisemitism, occupation, and arrest, Peter Gorog’s brave, resourceful mother managed to find safe haven for herself and her son.
Watch live to learn how Peter and his mother survived.
Just weeks before he died at age 99, World War II veteran Darrell Bush could still remember the horrors he witnessed at the Dachau concentration camp soon after liberation in 1945: Piles of bones. Emaciated men barely able to stand or speak. These memories would stay with him forever. #VeteransDay
2024 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Rose-Helene Spreiregen
Rose-Helene Spreiregen was nine when the Germans invaded France. From that point forward, she lived in fear as German and French antisemitic policies impacted every aspect of her life. Hear Rose-Helene tell her story.
Holocaust Survivors and the Long Shadow of Trauma
For survivors, their life is forever divided—before the Holocaust and after. Many lost family, friends, and entire communities. They also mourn their stolen youth and dreams for the future.
Long after the war ended, the physical and psychological stresses followed them. It took decades for some survivors to speak about what they endured. Some never did.
By their very presence, survivors exist in defiance of those who attempted to wipe them out. But their lives have never been the same. Join us on World Mental Health Day to hear how some survivors have managed to live with their ever-present trauma.
For Holocaust survivors, the events on October 7, 2023, and the aftermath—an unprecedented wave of antisemitism, Holocaust distortion, and Holocaust denial—have had a shattering impact on their lives.
These are some of the more than 33,000 men, women, and children who were murdered at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) 83 years ago.
#OTD in 1941, one of the largest mass shootings of the Holocaust began. Jews from Kyiv in German-occupied Ukraine were ordered to the outskirts of the city, where most were shot in a large ravine called Babyn Yar. In just two days, tens of thousands of people were murdered by German forces and their auxiliaries there.
2024 First Person with Holocaust Survivor Andrew Jampoler
“I’m probably the luckiest person you will ever meet,” says Holocaust survivor Andy Jampoler. Hear Andy explain the unlikely series of events that led to his survival.
Digging Up Evidence Buried During the Holocaust
While captive in the Warsaw ghetto, Jewish historian and social worker Emanuel Ringelblum led a brave group—including writers, teachers, and even children—to secretly document their suffering and spiritual resilience under the Nazis. They alerted the world about the mass murder of Poland’s Jews while there was still time to help. Their cries went unanswered, but some of the evidence they buried lived on.
Learn about the people who defied the Nazis by documenting their own history—and the determination of the few who survived the Holocaust to uncover the truth they left behind.
"The fog lifted, and there was the Statue of Liberty. It meant so many wonderful things to us."
All these decades later, Holocaust survivor Susan Warsinger remembers being welcomed to America's shores by Lady Liberty.
Becoming an American citizen is a point of pride for many Holocaust survivors in the United States. Hear these survivors recall what it meant to them to start a new life in America.