Ziggy was the only survivor after his Polish Jewish family were first forced into the Cracow ghetto, where his mother was murdered, and onto the Gross-Rosen concentration camp where his father died from exhaustion in his arms. He lost his brother on a death march to Mauthausen, before escaping thanks …
Tomi’s family faced persecution in Hungary, where anti-Jewish laws predated the Nazi occupation and led to the loss of his father’s business. His father was presumed dead after being forced into a forced labour wing of the Hungarian army. Tomi’s mother supported and protected Tomi when Hungary’s Jews were forced …
A family album left with a friend illustrates the pre-war childhood of Martin Wertheim and his brother, who both escaped to England while their family in Germany were persecuted and then murdered. Martin’s granddaughter Hannah uses this album to show the tragedy of a family lost to the Holocaust and …
Ilse escaped Vienna on the Kinderstransport but was in correspondence with her mother and father throughout their humiliation, persecution and then murder by the Nazis. Ilse’s son Martin tells the story of how his family fled Ukraine in the 1890s to escape anti-semitic Pogroms only to face the Holocaust in …
Anton was a German communist and political opponent persecuted because of his anti-Nazi campaigning in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. His daughter Sonja survived the war, believing she was an orphan. Family members were murdered in Dachau concentration camp. Ernie Hunter (born Hundsdorfer), son of Anton tells the story …
Helen’s family were fully integrated in their town in Czechoslovakia, and then Prague where she worked as a dancer and choreographer. Using readings from his mother’s memoir, Dan Lewis tells of the horror she faced after the Nazi invasion, including deportation to Terezin, Auschwitz, Stutthof and surviving a death march.
Fanny was a successful senior German civil servant forced to retire at 30 by Anti-Jewish laws delete: forced her out of work. Fanny’s son Ernie Hunter tells the story of his mother’s resistance to the Nazis and her lucky escape, as well as the fate of much of her family …
Charlotte’s family life in Austria was torn apart by the rise of Nazi Anti-Semitism. Her daughter Judith Hayman uses her family’s story to talk not only about her mother’s escape but also the impact of violent prejudice on Austrian society and the fates of those she left behind.
Chaim survived eight Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, but his mother, father and two sisters were murdered . Chaim’s son Stuart Ferster’s talk includes the appalling acts of cruelty his father had to witness. Stuart works to ensure that neither the stories of the Holocaust nor the lessons from it …
Bobby survived deportation to Auschwitz where her family were murdered and a death march in the closing days of the war. Her story is presented by her son Sam Neumann, using her testimony.
