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Sample Testmonies

If you don't want to search through the archive and simply wish to view one of the testimonies, you can select from one of the sample testimonies listed below. Representative samples have been selected from the following 9 experience groups:

Jewish Survivors
Homosexual Survivors
Survivors of Eugenics Policies
Liberators and Liberation Witnesses
Rescuers and Aid Providers
Political Prisoners
War Crimes Trials Participants
Sinti and Roma Survivors
Jehovah's Witness Survivors

Jewish Survivors

	Jack Bass
	Male, Born 1923, Germany Dachau, Auschwitz I & III, Gross Rosen, Ampfing-Waldlager V & VI Camps Interview in English
	Matilde Capelluto
	Female, Born 1926, Italy Dachau, Haidari, Auschwitz II-Birkenau Camps Interview in English
	Isaac Daniels
	Male, Born 1910, Russia/Soviet Russia Soviet concentration camps Interview in Yiddish
	Max Kingsley-Kalischer
	Male, Born 1914, Germany Fled Nazi-controlled Territory Interview in English
	Herbert Kolischer
	Male, Born 1924, Poland Auschwitz I, Buchenwald, Mittelbau-Dora, Gleiwitz Camps Interview in English
	Vera Laszlo
	Female, Born 1921, Romania Târgu-Mures & Theresienstadt Camps Interview in English
	Symcha Nirenberg
	Male, Born 1923, Poland Gusen, Mauthausen, Gunskirchen, St. Georgen, Krakau-Plaszow Camps Interview in English
	Anna Post
	Female, Born 1922, Germany Ravensbrück, Neustadt-Glewe, Auschwitz Camps Interview in English
	Helena Jonas Rosenzweig
	Female, Born 1925, Poland Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Krakau-Plaszow, Brünnlitz Camps Interview in English

Homosexual Survivors

	Walter Schwarze
	Male, Born 1914, Germany Gross Rosen & Sachsenhausen Camps Interview in German
	Pierre Seel
	Male, Born 1923, France Schirmeck-Vorbrück Camp Interview in French

Survivors of Eugenics Policies

	Siegfried Kersten
	Male, Born 1906, Germany Subjected to Nazi medical experiments Interview in German
	Meta Peter
	Female, Born 1914, Germany Subjected to Nazi medical experiments Interview in German

Liberators and Liberation Witnesses

	Elizabeth Dearden
	Female, Born 1915, United Kingdom Liberated or visited post-liberation: Bergen-Belsen Camp Interview in English
	John Hall Williams
	Male, Born 1921, United Kingdom Liberated or visited post-liberation: Bergen-Belsen Camp Interview in English

Rescuers and Aid Providers

	Madeleine Morris
	Female, Born 1923, France Involved with wartime rescue activities Interview in English
	Willem Brouwer
	Male, Born 1920, Indonesia Involved with wartime rescue activities; arrested for rescue activities Interview in English

Political Prisoners

	Frank Barwacz
	Male, Born 1917, USA Buchenwald, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, & Mittelbau-Dora camps Interview in English
	Sonja Hirsch
	Female, Born 1931, Germany Fled from Nazi-controlled territory Interview in English

War Crimes Trials Participants

	Gortz Mayer
	Male, Born 1910, Austria-Hungary Participated in the Nuremberg Trial Interview in English
	Edith Coliver
	Female, Born 1922 Participated in the Nuremberg Trial Interview in English

Sinti and Roma Survivors

	Julia Lentini
	Female, Born 1926, Germany Member of Romani-speaking community; Schlieben & Auschwitz II-Birkenau Camps Interview in English
	Avram Pinkas
	Male, Born 1927, Bulgaria Member of underground, resistance or partisan group(s); Somovit Camp Interview in Bulgarian

Jehovah's Witness Survivors

	Simone Maria Liebster
	Female, Born 1930, France Arrested; taken from family for re-education; underground Jehovah's Witness activities Interview in English
	Victor Schnell
	Male, Born 1916, Russia/Soviet Russia Budy, Rajsko, Gross Rosen, Mittelbau-Dora, & Auschwitz Camps Interview in English

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