List of Holocaust survivors

There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.

Individuals

Gizella Abrams - Educational Speaker
Karel Ančerl (1908-1973) - Czech conductor
Aharon Appelfeld, novelist and poet
Jacob Avigdor, orthodox rabbi and author

Dina Babbitt
Leo Baeck (1873-1956) - rabbi, a leader of progressive Judaism
Noami Ban- Educational Speaker
Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist
Joseph Bau, graphic artist and poet
Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist
Livia Bitton-Jackson - writer of I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Thomas Blatt, writer
Léon Blum (1872-1950) - French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother, René, was killed)
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) - Polish author
George Brown (born 1929) - tells his story of the Holocaust
George Brady (Jiří Brady), elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradová
Trygve Bratteli, "Nacht und Nebel" prisoner, (including at Sachsenhausen concentration camp), later Prime Minister of Norway

Paul Celan, poet
Albert Court Zimmermann, socialist
Robert Clary, actor
Józef Cyrankiewicz, later a Polish communist political figure, premier, and Head of State

Peter Daniels,(1935-) - currently sponsoring Museum of Tolerance in L.A., California
Yehiel De-Nur, German Jewish writer
Charlotte Delbo, French writer
Ludwig Draxler, Austrian politician

Stanisław Ehrlich (1907-1997) - Galicia-born Polish jurist
Jerzy Einhorn
Leo Eitinger (b. in Slovakia), professor of Psychiatry at University of Oslo, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
Ruth Elias - Writer
Leopold Engleitner (b. 1905)

David Faber, author of Because of Romek.
Fania Fénelon, French singer, author of the book "Playing for Time" about her experiences in Birkenau
Leon Feldhendler (lead the escape from Sobibor)
Henryk Fenigstein (?-1993), Polish survivor of two camps, liberated on way to a third, survived by virtue of being a doctor, became psychiatrist and psychotherapist, well known in Canada
Ádám & Iván Fischer
Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
Hans Frankenthal (1926-1999) author and activist
Viktor Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and author of Man's Search for Meaning
Tuviah Friedman
Roman Frister, Author of The Cap or the Price of a Life.
Peter 'Fritz' Gadiel, artist partially responsible for the documentation of events in the Kovno Ghetto.
Eva Galler, escaped death train going to Belzec death camp (Jan 1, 1924-)
Jack Garfein, motion picture and theater director.
Elfriede Geiringer (1905-1998) - mother of Eva Schloss, married Otto Frank in 1953
Einar Gerhardsen, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, became Prime Minister of Norway.
Richard Glazar (1920-1997) author of Trap With a Green Fence
Nesse Godin, Lithuanian speaker and teacher of the Holocaust.
Yosef Goldman, author and scholar of Jewish American History.
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
Karl Gorath, German homosexual imprisoned at Auschwitz
Hannah Goslar, Childhood friend of Anne Frank, published book (with Alison Leslie Gold) about her friendship with Anne Frank and her experiences in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen
Bill Graham, rock impresario
Leon Greenman, (b. 1910, London, England), barber, market trader and activist. Author of the books Leon Greenman, Auschwitz Survivor 98288: A Resource for Holocaust Education (ISBN 0-9511613-8-5) and An Englishman in Auschwitz (ISBN 0-85303-424-9)
Alexander Grothendieck, mathematician

Kitty Hart - Writer
Anna Heilman, conspirator in plot to blow up Auschwitz Crematorium IV, author of Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman
Fanya Heller, author of Love in a World of Sorrow
Arek Hersh, Polish writer, author of A Message from History
William Herskovic, Holocaust hero, philanthropist, Bel Air Camera founder

Wanda Jakubowska
Herbert Jehle, (1907 - 1983) noted physicist, friend to Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Albert Einstein
Alicia Appleman-Jurman, memoirist, writer of Alicia: My Story

Miklos Kanitz
Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
Alexander Kimel, engineer, memoirist, creator of award-winning, website with frequently cited and translated essays Holocaust Understanding and Prevention
Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Flora Klein, mother of Gene Simmons, from KISS
Walter Kohn, Nobel laureate in chemistry
Jerzy Kosiński
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Polish writer and resistance fighter, a founder of Żegota antifascist underground
Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki, Polish cardinal
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (1927 - 2001) Polish fabric artist
Tom Lantos, Hungarian-born American politician
Yisrael Meir Lau, former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel
Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz survivor and author of Five Chimneys
Primo Levi
Paul Löbe (1875-1967), politician
Branko Lustig, (born June 9, 1932) is a prominent film producer, winner of two Oscar Awards: Schindler's List in 1993 and Gladiator in 2001
Jean-Marie Lustiger

Stephen Nasser, author (My Brother's Voice)

Paul Oppenheimer - Writer
Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Solomon Perel
Poldek Pfefferberg
Witold Pilecki
Roman Polański, Polish film director
Michael Podchlebnik, one of the two survivors of Chelmno
Helen Raab, survived Auschwitz
Werner Reich, Holocaust speaker
Philip Riteman, (1925 - ?), was liberated by American soldiers. Holocaust Speaker.
Josef Rosensaft (1911-1975), business executive and leader of Holocaust survivors ^[1]
Tibor Rubin Congressional Medal of Honor

Jan Saudek (1935- ) Czech art photographer
Georg Schafer
Leon Schiller de Schildenfeld
Eva Schloss (née Geiringer) (1929- ), childhood acquaintance and posthumous step-sister of Anne Frank
Umberto Schoeps^[2], one of the Selvino children
Kurt Schumacher
Pierre Seel
Israel Shahak
David Shaltiel
Ota Šik
Gabriele Silten, author of "Between Two Worlds", "High Towers Crumbling", "Is the War Over?", and "Dark Shadows, Bright Life"
Sigmund Sobolewski, Polish Roman Catholic internee at Auschwitz, subject of the book Prisoner 88: The Man in Stripes.
Paul Spiegel (1937-2006), president of Germany's Central Council of Jews
Simon Srebnik, one of the two survivors of Chelmno
Balys Sruoga
Mike Staner, Writer
Jacques Strumza, engineer, "the violinist of Auschwitz"
Józef Szajna Polish artist
Władysław Szpilman, pianist and composer
Władysław Ślebodziński

Karl Targownik
Władysław Tatarkiewicz
Joel Teitelbaum Satmar rebbi
Corrie ten Boom, Dutch Christian who was arrested with her family and sent to Ravensbrück concetration camp for harboring Jews
Brother Theodore, (Theodore Gottlieb) actor, humorist, metaphysicist, podiatrist
Bruno Touschek
Jack Tramiel, entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines

Simone Veil, French politician
Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg in Slovakia, 1924) escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.

Jean Wahl
Al Weiner, Holocaust speaker
David Weiss Halivni, rabbi, Talmudist
Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, rabbi
Gerda Weissmann Klein, author of memoir All But My Life
Elie Wiesel, author (particularly of Night) and political activist
Simon Wiesenthal, worked to capture Nazi war criminals and founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
Ernst Wiechert, Catholic writer
Otto Wolf, Jewish boy hiding from the Nazis, published diary
Eddy Wynschenk (1927-2003), Holocaust speaker

Individuals whose parents or ancestor were Holocaust survivors

Rosalie Abella, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Helen Epstein, journalist and author of Children of the Holocaust and Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for her Mother's History
Norman Finkelstein, college professor
Helen Fremont, author of After Long Silence
Daniel Ganzfried, Hungarian-Swiss author and grandson of Shlomo Ganzfried ^[3]
Rosalie Gerut, composer and singer
Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
Mila Kunis, actress known for her role in That '70s Show
Geddy Lee, born Gary Lee Weinrib, lead vocalist and bassist of Rush. Parents were Morris Weinrib and Manya (Mary) Rubenstein, released from Dachau and Bergen-Belsen respectively when those camps were liberated by Allied troops.
Daniel Libeskind, architect
György Ligeti, composer
Goapele Mohlabane, singer, daughter of Israeli mother
Natalie Portman, Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
Ilan Ramon, first Israeli astronaut, died when Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry. (father's name was Wolferman)
Rochelle Rubinstein, Canadian artist
Debbie Schlussel, conservative attorney and columnist
Gene Simmons of KISS
Andrea Simon- Writer, granddaughter of survivors
Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series Maus about his parents' Holocaust experience.
Henry Winkler, actor and producer
Viktor Yushchenko, president of Ukraine

Communities

Shanghai ghetto
- Mir yeshiva

Fictional people

Bruno Grosjean, "Binjamin Wilkomirski"
Rebecca Kaplan, The Young and the Restless
Magneto
Nyssa Raatko
Sonnenschein family of Budapest (Sunshine)

Notes

External links

"Sustained Through Terrible Trials", as told by Éva Josefsson (June 1, 1998)
"They Triumphed Over Persecution" - the life stories of Ádám Szinger and Frieda Jess (March 1, 2003)

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[1] ttp://www.bh.org.il/Names/POW/Rosensaft.asp

[2] ttp://www.ashokan.com

[3] ttp://home.earthlink.net/~paulmlieberman/genealogy/f_11.html

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