They survived the Holocaust. The survivors’ accounts

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It is truly difficult to find words to describe the ultimate atrocities of the Holocaust. Therefore, the words of those who managed to survive the Genocide are all the more important. For the International Holocaust Remembrance Day we present the survivors’ accounts from the oral history collection of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 

Witnesses “The commandant was like a God for us”. Roman Kent’s Account. They kept children at the labour camp in Flossenürg. They were transferred from the camp in Gross-Rosen so that they could work...
Witnesses “I Became a Number.” Lusia Segal’s Account “When the train entered the ramp in Birkenau, all the doors were opened. We saw soldiers wearing uniforms and leather...
Witnesses “They Will Make Soap Out of You.” Sally Wasserman’s Account “My mum wrote this letter to her sister. She was writing from the ghetto in Dąbrowa. Her sister had gone to Canada some time...
Witnesses “Alone On the Train.” Matti Greenberg’s Account “My first recollection is sitting alone on a train, a blue-wrapped parcel next to me. I think I was weeping,”...
Witnesses “People ate snow”. Shalom Lindenbaum’s Account “We walked for three days, my father and me. On 18 January (1945), Thursday evening, we left Buna-Monowice, the Auschwitz sub-...
Education “What’s Ours Is Yours”. Mira Krum’s Account. “There is this Italian film called Life Is Beautiful. My mother also created that sort of a magical world around me. We were...
Witnesses “Death Cars.” Halina Aszkenazy-Engelhardt’s Account “They made us march slowly to the Umschlagplatz and packed us to  those carriages.. The death cars. There was no...
Witnesses “It Will Take Just a Couple of Minutes.” Samuel Willenberg’s Account. “She suddenly walked out of the room where women were taking off their clothes, where all their clothes were laying...