People

• Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Wars and Conflicts: World War II: People  (214)

Alicia Appleman-Jurman - Survival and Heroism of a Young Girl During the Holocaust - Accompanies the book by Alicia Appleman-Jurman, holocaust survivor.

Anne Frank and Me - Essays and short stories about surviving the Holocaust and afterwards in Poland.

The Anne Frank Internet Guide - Includes categorized links and suggestions for thematic search.

Arnold Distler's Story - Video interview with a Polish Jew who survived by escaping from a German Labour Camp and hiding in an underground bunker he and his friends constructed in the forest.

Baral Family Holocaust Memorial Web Site - A collection of photographs of the Baral, Feuer and Ehrlich Families all from Cracow, Poland.

A Belgian Family's Story - The story of the Deloge family from Belgium through two world wars, ending in death in Auschwitz.

Defying Hitler: A Memoir - Review of the book of author Sebastian Haffner.

Denmark - Rescue of the Danish Jews - Amidst the madness of war, there are moments of hope and illumination. In World War II, one such instance was the night when the Danes got truly fed up with Adolf Hitler and his Nazis - and saved their Jews.

The Dentist of Auschwitz - The full text of the vivid book of that title, by Benjamin Jacobs, describing his experiences in many camps, including Auschwitz, from the invasion of Poland to liberation.

Dimitar Peshev - The story of a man who opposed deportation of Bulgarian Jews to death camps in 1943.

Emilie Schindler - An Unsung Heroine - The story of the wife of Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust.

Eva's Journey - A Young Girl’s True Story - A review of a book of author Hava Ben Zvi.

Facing Fire - Trudi Birger's personal account on surviving the Holocaust.

The First Days of Freedom - Release from a Nazi concentration camp as written by George Liebermann.

Head of the Line: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir - A compelling story that weaves personal events into the Holocaust's larger historic and religious context.

Heinz's Memoirs - Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Heinz Vogel in six chapters. Also provides links to Holocaust resources.

Henriette von Schirach - Story of the daughter of Adolf Hitler's close friend and personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.

Hitler's Women - Biographies of six female Nazi war criminals, information and photographs.

The Holocaust Children - Information on the Jewish children, Anne Frank, and photos..

Holocaust People - Brief biographies of individuals.

In and Out of the Nazi Camps - The true story of Israel Turk and the Nazi labor camps.

Kurt Gerstein: SS Officer with Conscience - Biography, personal report, gallery, and FAQ.

Louisiana Holocaust Survivors - Local residents share their stories in interviews conducted by Plater Robinson, the Institute's Holocaust Education specialist.

Maria von Maltzan - Short biography of the Silesian Countess Maria Helene Francoise Izabel von Maltzan, who harbored Jews in her home.

Miep Gies: An Unsung Heroine - Brief biography, holocaust information, and gallery.

Mountaintop Miracle - The story of a woman's miraculous escape from a Nazi concentration camp.

Nicholas Winton - Schindler of Britain - The story of a man who saved 667 Jewish children before World War II.

Not the Germans Alone - A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy - A review of a book by Isaac Levendel relating to his childhood memories about the Holocaust in France, and the complicity of the Vichy government with the Nazis.

Oscar Schindler - His List of Life - Biography of a humane figure in amongst the horrors of Holocaust.

Polish Righteous - Those Who Risked their Lives - The stories of World War II Polish rescuers, and a list of Polish Christians who lost their lives saving Polish Jews

Reb Chaim Yisroel Eiss - An article about the man in the center of Orthodoxy's World War II rescue activities.

Reb Chaim Yisroel Eiss - A founding member of Agudas Yisroel and one of its main activists starting from the first Knessia Gedola in Katovitz.

Schindler's List - The complete list of people saved from the Holocaust by Oscar Schindler.

Sir Nicholas Winton: A Man Of Courage - Brief biography, intervention information, and gallery.

The SS Men - Masters Of Death - Biographies.

To Save A Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue - Includes the stories of rescuers and those that they saved.

Varian Fry: The American Schindler - The story of one who saved many of the brightest names in art, science, literature and medicine from the Nazi death camps.

Visas For Life - The Remarkable Story of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara - An obscure World War II diplomat and his wife who saved more than 40,000 Jews.

Wilm Hosenfeld: A Man Of courage - A German Wehrmacht officer who believed in helping others. Diary entries, aftermath, Holocaust statistics, and photos.

The Wolf Lewkowicz Collection - Collection of letters written by a Jewish man in Poland to his nephew in the United States during the Holocaust. Letters (translated into English), photographs.