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Archives: Survivor Stories
  • ‘My survival journey’: Holocaust survivor Irene Miller

    on December 20, 2016

    Sean Bradley – Morning SunIrene Miller (right) speaks to Alma High School students on Friday, Dec. 16 about…

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  • How I Reunited My Holocaust Survivor Father With His Long Lost Neighbor

    on December 13, 2016

    Jerzy “Jurek” Skarżyński had been up half the night. The next day he was going to meet the daughter and grandson of a…

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  • Honoring Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust Witness Who Kept a Memory Alive

    on December 5, 2016

    “He loved this country,” Elisha Wiesel said of his father on Wednesday at the United States Holocaust Memorial…

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  • ‘Maybe this is a prison:’ Holocaust survivor shares her story and pleads for communication

    on November 21, 2016

    Holocaust survivor Renee Firestone, 92, talks about her experience in a German concentration camp, at Glendale Community College…

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  • Looking for the light in the dark: A Holocaust survivor’s story

    on November 10, 2016

    Shimon Redlich, 81, sees his childhood through a complicated prism – through the interplay between Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish relations in wartime Brzezany. As a Jew who survived the Holocaust…

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  • French student credits Holocaust survivor for changing his life in new film

    on October 31, 2016

    When Leon Zyguel visited a French classroom eight years ago to tell the story of how he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he probably hoped…

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  • Jewish-American ex-sailor recalls Cyprus internment with Holocaust survivors

    on October 30, 2016

    Anger gripped Murray Greenfield when he found himself locked up in a British detention camp with hundreds of Jewish refugees after WWII

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  • Holocaust survivor Olga Sher fought for social justice

    on October 27, 2016

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  • Holocaust survivor delivers message of forgiveness

    on October 21, 2016

      At dawn on an early spring day in 1944, a young Eva Mozes Kor and her family were freed from the overcrowded cattle car they’d been standing in…

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  • Holocaust Survivor Experiences Her Own Rescue in Virtual Reality

    on October 20, 2016

    Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom fled Europe in 1940 on a ship of young refugees. That journey is the subject of the Defying the Nazis VR experience

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