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Imre Finta

Holocaust survivor Sabina Citron prevailed in a civil lawsuit for libel against Finta, after Finta accused her of being a liar for saying that he had committed war crimes.

Leap into Darkness

Leap into Darkness is a 1998 memoir that was written by Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz and co-author Michael Olesker.

Leslie What

Her mother was a German Holocaust survivor who was interned in the Riga ghetto and a series of work camps in and out of Germany.

Schindler's Ark

Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor, inspired Keneally to write Schindler's Ark.


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Alexander Lebenstein

Alexander Lebenstein (born November 3, 1927 in Haltern, Germany; died 28 January 2010 in Richmond, Virginia) was a German-American Holocaust survivor.

Alfred Kantor

Alfred Kantor (born Prague, 7 Nov 1923 – died Yarmouth, Maine 16 Jan 2003) was a Czech-born Holocaust survivor, artist and author of The Book of Alfred Kantor.

Ari Wallach

Ari was born in Guadalajara, Mexico where his father, a Polish Holocaust survivor and member of the Jewish underground in World War II, established a successful industrial infrastructure business after an 11 year stint in Cuba pre and post-revolution.

CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center

The museum was founded by Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who with her twin sister Miriam was subjected to human experimentation under Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz.

Children's Memorial Health Institute

On 20 June 1965 Ewa Szelburg-Zarembina, a noted writer and Holocaust survivor, published a lengthy article in Warsaw's Życie Warszawy daily, in which she suggested that the World War II martyrdom and heroism of children should be commemorated with a construction of a memorial.

Down Came a Blackbird

Tomás Ramírez (Raúl Juliá) is a professor who joins a clinic run by Anna Lenke (Vanessa Redgrave), a Holocaust survivor, psychologist and the clinic's proprietor, whose patients are also recovering Holocaust and torture victims.

Helfgott

Ben Helfgott (born 1930), British Holocaust survivor, and champion weightlifter

Irene Eber

 ISBN 0-8052-4197-3 (A Holocaust survivor's story describes her experiences in wartime Mielec.

Jeffrey Sussman

In addition to the seven health and fitness books he wrote with his former wife, Jeffrey is the author of three other non-fiction books: How to Sleep Without Drugs; Power Promoting: How to Market Your Business to the Top! and No Mere Bagatelles, a biography of handbag designer and Holocaust survivor Judith Leiber.

Kary Antholis

As a filmmaker he won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject (1995) and the Emmy for Outstanding Information Special (1994–95) for his film One Survivor Remembers about Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein.

Kogan

Eugen Kogon (1903 - 1987), German historian and holocaust survivor

Kurt Gerron

Gerron is the subject of three documentary films, Prisoner of Paradise (PBS), Kurt Gerrons Karussell, and Tracks to Terezín, which features Holocaust survivor Herbert Thomas Mandl talking about Kurt Gerron as the director of the film Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet.

Liana Millu

Liana Millu (b.Pisa, December 21, 1914 – February 6, 2005) was a Jewish-Italian journalist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor, best known for her autobiography "Smoke over Birkenau".

Łódź Ghetto

Simon Says, a memoir of Holocaust survivor Simon Lewenberg.

March of Remembrance and Hope

The major funder of the Canadian program is the Azrieli Foundation, founded by Canadian Holocaust survivor, David Azrieli, which is a Canadian philanthropic organization that supports a wide range of initiatives and programs, among which include Holocaust commemoration and education.

Mark Lowen

Lowen is the grandson of Natalia Karp, née Weissman (1911-2007), a Jewish refugee from the Nazis and Holocaust survivor, whose story he told in a BBC broadcast and online report.

Martin Grossman

Elie Wiesel (the Holocaust survivor and activist), Pope Benedict XVI, Chief Rabbis of Israel and over 200 prominent organizations sent letters to the Governor to plead against Grossman's death.

Megan Spencer

In June 2006 Spencer was criticised for a live on-air review for the movie X-Men: The Last Stand, in which she commented "Jews used to be oppressed and now they are the oppressors" (in reference to the character Magneto, a Jewish holocaust survivor).

Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism

In 2008, the Holocaust survivor and historian Israel Gutman questioned its location near the Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

Miklos Kanitz

Miklos Samual Kanitz (1939–2006) was a Hungarian-Canadian Holocaust survivor living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Holocaust survivor Yehudis Pshenitse has recounted the efforts of a parish priest from Nowy Dwór to save her life after the murder of more than 2000 Jews in Rembertów ghetto in August 1942.

One Survivor Remembers

One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 documentary short film by Kary Antholis in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein recounts her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty, including the loss of her parents, brother, friends, home, possessions, and community.

Restoring Courage tour

It featured an invocation by Rabbi Moshe Rothchild, remarks by Beck, actor and activist Jon Voight, the screening of the documentary film Kleiner Rudy by Michelle Stein Teer about her grandfather, Holocaust survivor Rudy Wolff and personal family memoirs, a short documentary about a solemn tour by Beck and his wife Tania of Auschwitz, and a panel discussion including Beck, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and author Mike Evans.

Risk International

During that period Risk International also did extensive research related to Holocaust survivor insurance claims culminating in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives and the New York State Senate.

Roland Tec

Tec was raised in Westport, Connecticut, by his Jewish-Polish and Holocaust-survivor parents Leon and Nechama Tec.

Sam Egan

He is the son of a holocaust survivor and based The Outer Limits episode "Tribunal" on his father's experience in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where his father's first wife and daughter were killed by the Nazis.

Samson Option

In 2012, in response to Günter Grass's poem "Was gesagt werden muss" ("What Must Be Said") which criticized Israel's nuclear weapons program, Israeli poet and Holocaust survivor Itamar Yaoz-Kest published a poem entitled "The Right to Exist: a Poem-Letter to the German Author" which addresses Grass by name.

Sydney Jewish Museum

There are also guided tours; one of the guides is Holocaust survivor and writer Olga Horak.

Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983), author and Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II

The Big Shot-Caller

The final scene was filmed at Club Shalom in Cali, Colombia, in order to shoot the ending with Rhein's grandfather, a holocaust survivor, who moved his family to Colombia after the war and was still living there at the time of the film shoot.

The Electronic Intifada

EI co-founder MP Arjan El-Fassed, who also wrote for the website Al-Awda, told major Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant that the fuss created by NGO Monitor was related to one quote from an interview with the Jewish Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist Hajo Meyer in June 2009.

Tomicah Tillemann

Tillemann is the oldest grandson of Tom Lantos, the former Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress.

Virginia Holocaust Museum

A main part of the exhibition is about the family story of Holocaust survivor Jay M. Ipson.

Wiesel

Elie Wiesel (born 1928), Hungarian-American novelist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, philosopher, humanitarian, and Holocaust survivor

Wilmette Junior High School

Aaron Dubnow's grandfather, Leo Melamed, a holocaust survivor, and Mr. Walter Reed came to speak during the 2008-2009 school year.

Yuddham Sei

J.K. helps send Nishanth aboard, after giving him a book Man's Search for Meaning by holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl, and advice to help him deal with his grief.