LIST OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

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There are many 'famous Holocaust survivors' who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.

Contents

Literature and publishing

Theatre and film

Visual arts and design

Music

Humanities

Mathematics

Natural sciences

Medicine, psychology, paedagogy

Theology, spirituality, religion

Politics, resistance

Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust

Military

See also

External links

Literature and publishing

★ Aharon Appelfeld, novelist and poet

★ Werner Barasch - author of " Survivor: Autobiographical Fragments 1938 - 1946"

★ Marion Baumann-Parkurst - author of ''Searching Survivor and the answer I found''

★ Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist

★ Thomas Blatt - writer

★ Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) - Polish author

★ George Brady (Jiří Brady) - elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradová

★ Paul Celan (1920-1970) - poet

★ Yehiel De-Nur (1909-2001) - German Jewish writer

★ Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) - French writer

★ David Faber - author of ''Because of Romek''.

★ Fania Fénelon - French singer, author of the book "Playing for Time" about her experiences in Birkenau

★ Otto Frank - father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary

★ Viktor Frankl - Austrian psychiatrist and author of ''Man's Search for Meaning''

★ Roman Frister - Author of ''The Cap or the Price of a Life''.

★ Richard Glazar (1920-1997) - author of ''Trap With a Green Fence''

★ Fanya Heller - author of ''Love in a World of Sorrow''

★ Eugene Hollander - author of ''From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story''

★ Arek Hersh - Polish writer, author of ''A Message from History''

★ Alicia Appleman-Jurman - memoirist, writer of ''Alicia: My Story''

★ Imre Kertész - Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author

★ Gerda Weissmann Klein - author of ''All But My Life''. The book was later used as a basis for ''One Surviver Remembers'' an Emmy and Academy Award winning documentary.

★ Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991) - novelist

★ Robert Maxwell - media proprietor

★ Arnulf Øverland (1889-1968)-, Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp

★ Vladek Spiegelman - subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book ''Maus''.

★ Mike Staner - Writer

★ Balys Sruoga - Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic

★ Gerda Weissmann Klein - author of the memoir ''All But My Life''

★ Elie Wiesel - author of ''Night,'' as well as ''Dawn'' and ''Day.'' Survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna before being liberated.

★ Hannelore Wolf - author of 'I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree.''Survived Lublin, Belzyce, Kraśnik, Budzyn, Wieliczka, Plaszow, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brünnlitz before being liberated.

Theatre and film

★ Robert Clary - actor

★ Jack Garfein - motion picture and theater director

★ Wanda Jakubowska (1901-1998) - Polish film director

★ Branko Lustig - film producer, winner of two Oscar Awards: for ''Schindler's List'' in 1993 and ''Gladiator'' in 2001

★ Roman Polański - Polish film director

★ Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld (1887-1954) - Polish director, film critic, and theoretician

★ Brother Theodore (Theodore Gottlieb) (1906-2001) - actor, humorist, metaphysicist, podiatrist

★ Józef Szajna - Polish scenery designer, stage director

Visual arts and design

★ Dina Babbitt - painter

★ Joseph Bau - graphic artist and poet

★ Paul László - archtect and designer

★ Esther Nisenthal Krinitz - Polish fabric artist

★ Jan Saudek - Czech art photographer

★ Georg Schafer - painter and writer

Music

★ Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor

★ Bill Graham - rock impresario

★ Olivier Messiaen - French composer

★ Władysław Szpilman - pianist and composer

Humanities

★ Emil Fackenheim - philosopher and theologian

★ Yosef Goldman - author and scholar of Jewish American History.

★ Władysław Tatarkiewicz - Polish philosopher

★ Jean Wahl - French philosopher

Mathematics

★ Alexander Grothendieck - mathematician

★ Władysław Ślebodziński (1884-1972) - Polish mathematician

Natural sciences

★ Mieczyslaw Birencwajg later Menakhem Ben-Yami (1926-...) Dr hc - Israeli fishing technologist and ecologist

★ Liviu Librescu (1930-2007) - scientist and professor, died during the Virginia Tech Massacre while holding off the gunman to protect his students

★ Victor Moritz Goldschmidt - chemist

★ Walter Kohn - Nobel laureate in chemistry

★ Primo Levi - chemist

★ Israel Shahak - chemist

★ Bruno Touschek - Austrian physicist

Medicine, psychology, paedagogy

★ Jerzy Einhorn - medical doctor, researcher, politician

★ Leo Eitinger - professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors

★ Erna Furman - psycoanalyst, known mainly for her work on grief in children

★ Eric Kandel - neurobiologist, Nobel laureate

★ Daniel Kahneman - psychologist, Nobel laureate

★ David Katz - psychologist

★ Karl Targownik - psychiatrist

★ Michel Thomas -- linguist, language-teacher, American CIC Agent, awarded Silver Star in 2004

★ Isidoro Franco Vabani - (1896-1976) optometrist.

Theology, spirituality, religion

★ Jacob Avigdor - orthodox rabbi and author

★ Leo Baeck (1873-1956) - rabbi, a leader of progressive Judaism

★ Leopold Engleitner - Jehovah's Witness, religious speaker

★ Franciszek Gajowniczek‎ - Polish soldier whose life was spared by the sacrifice of Saint Maximilian Kolbe.

★ Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki - Polish cardinal

★ Max Friediger - Chief Rabbi of Denmark. Deported October 2 1943 to Theresienstadt.

★ Yisrael Meir Lau - former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel

★ Jean-Marie Lustiger - Roman Catholic archbishop

★ Sigmund Sobolewski - Polish Roman Catholic internee at Auschwitz, subject of the book ''Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes''.

★ Joel Teitelbaum - Satmar rebbi

★ David Weiss Halivni - rabbi, Talmudist

★ Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl - rabbi

★ Ernst Wiechert - Catholic writer

Politics, resistance

★ Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist

★ Léon Blum (1872-1950) - French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother, René, was killed)

★ Trygve Bratteli - ''"Nacht und Nebel"'' prisoner, (including at Sachsenhausen concentration camp), later Prime Minister of Norway

★ Józef Cyrankiewicz - a Polish communist political figure, premier, and Head of State

★ Ludwig Draxler, Austrian politician

★ Einar Gerhardsen (1897-1987) - survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, became Prime Minister of Norway

★ Kurt Julius Goldstein - XI International Brigade, Buchenwald resister. writer and author.

★ Anna Heilman, conspirator in plot to blow up Auschwitz Crematorium IV, author of ''Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman''

★ Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Polish writer and resistance fighter, a founder of Żegota antifascist underground

★ Tom Lantos - Hungarian-born American politician

★ Paul Löbe - politician

★ Martin Nielsen (1900-1962) - member of the Danish parliament for the Communist Party of Denmark. Survived 15 months in Stutthof and 6 weeks of ensuing death march.

★ Kurt Schumacher (1895-1952) - former leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany

★ Ota Šik - economist and politician

★ Simon Srebnik - one of the two survivors of Chelmno

★ Corrie ten Boom - Dutch Christian who was arrested with her family and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for harboring Jews

★ Simone Veil - French politician

★ Rudolf Vrba - escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.

★ Jack Tramiel - entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines

★ Elie Wiesel - author (particularly of ''Night'') and political activist

★ Alfred Wetzler - escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.

Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust

★ Marion Blumenthal Lazan- speaker and writer

★ Hans Frankenthal - author and activist

★ Nesse Godin - Lithuanian speaker and teacher about the Holocaust

★ Karl Gorath - German homosexual imprisoned at Auschwitz

★ Elly Gotz - educational speaker

★ Leon Greenman - anti-fascism campaigner

★ Kitty Hart-Moxon - Writer and Holocaust educator

★ William Herskovic - Holocaust hero, philanthropist, ''Bel Air Camera'' founder

★ Miklos Kanitz

★ Serge and Beate Klarsfeld

★ Henryk Mandelbaum - concentration camp rebel and escapee

★ Solomon Perel - mistaken for a German gentile and inducted in Hitler Youth, author of memoir ''Europa, Europa''

★ Poldek Pfefferberg

★ Josef Rosensaft - business executive and leader of Holocaust survivors

★ Pierre Seel - homosexual speaker

★ Sigmund Sobolewski - Polish Catholic anti-fascist campaigner against Holocaust denial

★ Paul Spiegel - president of Germany's Central Council of Jews

★ Eddy Wynschenk - Holocaust speaker

★ Carla Hidden Jewish child during war and holocaust

Military

★ Tuviah Friedman - Nazi hunter

★ Witold Pilecki - Polish soldier, founder of the resistance movement

★ Tibor Rubin - Hungarian-born, American Congressional Medal of Honor

★ David Shaltiel - district commander of the Haganah in Jerusalem during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

★ Simon Wiesenthal - worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center

★ Bjørn Egge - Norwegian POW, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, later general in the Norwegian Army and President of the Norwegian Red Cross.

See also

★ List of victims of Nazism
Documentaries about Holocuast survivors:

★ ''The Boys of Buchenwald''

★ ''Marion's Triumph''

★ ''Pola's March''

External links

★ "Sustained Through Terrible Trials", as told by Éva Josefsson (June 1, 1998)

★ "They Triumphed Over Persecution" - the life stories of Ádám Szinger and Frieda Jess (March 1, 2003)

★ "Searching Survivor and the Answer I Found" - The amazing survival story of Marion Baumann-Parkhurst (April, 2007)