Project Witness is dedicated to preserving the stories of those who survived the Holocaust with our Eyewitness to History program and we have made documenting these stories our highest priority. To submit your story, please click here.

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY

Please note this section includes interviews that were submitted and conducted by the survivors’ family members. They are presented in their raw unedited form on the Project Witness website so we can bear witness to their testimony.

CHILDREN OF THE LAGER

This is the story about the children of the survivors. Although they had not suffered the Holocaust, these children were often survivors themselves, victims of the Nazi hell that their parents had.
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INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

On Shabbos, January 27, 1945 in midst of a snowstorm Soviet troops arrived to the town of Oswiecim, Poland and liberated Auschwitz, Birkenau and Monowitz. In the weeks prior, more than 60,000. READ MORE

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TU B’SHVAT IN THERESIENSTADT

Irma Kohn Lauscher was a teacher at a Jewish school in Prague. On December 22, 1942, she and her husband Jiri and their little daughter, Michaela, were deported. READ MORE

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CHANUKAH IN THE WARSAW GHETTO

December 26, 1940 Hanukkah in the ghetto. Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall. But because of the sword that hovers over our… READ MORE

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ROSH HASHANAH IN HIDING

Naomi Rosenberg, along with her mother and two surviving siblings, was given refuge by a Polish farmer’s wife in a crawl space beneath a barn for nearly two years. In her poignant… READ MORE

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SHARE YOUR STORY

Using the services of a professional interviewer and a videographer, Project Witness is currently in the process of archiving a large number of video interviews. If you are a survivor and are willing to share a personal account of your experiences during the Holocaust, please fill out the form below.

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