List of Holocaust survivors

List of Holocaust survivors
The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945. Although there were many victims of the Holocaust, the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims (ICHEIC) defines a Holocaust survivor as, "Any Jew who lived for any period of time in a country that was ruled by the Nazis or their allies."
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) gives a broader definition: "The Museum honors as a survivor any person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and/or political policies of the Nazis and their allies between 1933 and 1945. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos, this includes refugees and people in hiding." Most notably, as well as Jewish people, this includes Poles, Romani people, Jehovah's Witnesses and those who were persecuted for political reasons such as Communists, those who were persecuted for religious reasons (such as Pastor Niemoller), and homosexuals and those of other sexual orientations. It includes those who were actually in hiding in Nazi-occupied countries. The latter includes Hidden Children, who were hidden to escape the Nazis.
Most especially, in contrast to the ICHEIC definition, it includes refugees, who fled from their homeland to escape the Nazis, and never lived in a Nazi-controlled country.
The ICHEIC definition was created for the purpose of resolving some insurance claims. Over time, the classes of insurance claims have greatly expanded.
This list does not include refugees, since it is created on the basis of the restricted ICHEIC definition. Refugees include the unaccompanied children of the Kindertransport and the unaccompanied One Thousand Children.
Actors, actresses and directors
Living
Deceased
Artists, painters, and photographers
Living
Deceased
Humanities
Living
Deceased
Literature, memoirs and publishing
Living
Deceased
Mathematics and natural sciences
Living
Deceased
Military
Deceased
Music
Living
Deceased
Politics, activism, resistance
Living
Deceased
Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust
Living
Deceased
Sports
Living
Deceased
Theology, spirituality, religion
Living
Deceased
Other
Living
Deceased
See also
3GNY
American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants
List of survivors of Sobibor
List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz
Holocaust denial
Jews escaping from Nazi Europe
List of victims of Nazism
Selvino children
Sh'erit ha-Pletah
Heroic Children, a collection of true stories about child survivors
Documentaries about Holocaust survivors
The Boys of Buchenwald
The Girl From Boryslaw: Australian Story with Sabina Wolanski, the story of Sabina Wolanski who was chosen to speak on behalf of the six million dead at the opening of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin in May 2005
The Lady in Number 6
Marion's Triumph
One Survivor Remembers, directed by Kary Antholis
Pola's March
Shoah, directed by Claude Lanzmann
References
External links
Online Torchlighter Film Archive - an archive of the short films depicting the stories of the survivors shown as each of six torches is lit during the official Yom HaShoah ceremony that takes place at Yad Vashem
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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