After the Roundup is the true memoir of eleven-year-old French Holocaust Survivor Joseph Weismann, who was rounded up in Paris by the French police along with 13,000 other Jews (4,000 of whom were children) in July 1942 and held in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d’Hiver cycling stadium. From there, he and his family were…
My name is Rena Quint, a Holocaust survivor. I was born December 18, 1935 in Piotrkow, Poland, and my name was Freida Lichtenstein. My parents, Sara and Yitzchak, had lived in Piotrkow for a long time. My mother came from a large family, they came from a town nearby, and my father was born in…
“The Nuremberg Code rejects the ideology of Eugenics and unequivocally asserts the primacy and dignity of the individual human being – as opposed to “the greater good of society.” Read the Nuremberg Code Get the Book on Amazon Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of…
Return to How Dark the Heavens Read Chapter 1: Daugavpils Ghetto and the Flight from Lithuania Read Chapter 2: Daugavpils Ghetto & Prison Massacre ? Note: To learn more about the Roma, like the one Sidney Iwens describes in this chapter, visit our expanded hub, Dikh He Na Bister: The Roma and Sinti Holocaust, with…
Holocaust Survivor Tamara Deuel Questions and Answers With Students View paintings by Tamara Deuel My Story I am one of the survivors of the hell in Europe. I went through the Holocaust as a child. I was born in Kovno, Lithuania and had a normal and beautiful childhood. The day when the first bomb fell…