The personal story of each Holocaust survivor is unique and individual. This section is devoted to some of our members and gives them an opportunity to read their stories and watch short films, where they describe their individual experiences. They share their memories about life in the ghettos, the experience of being a slave laborer, life in hiding and fighting against Nazis as a solder or partisan.
To read the individual story and watch the video, please click on a survivor to go to his/her page and learn his/her story.
Each page contains a brief life story and film. To watch the film, click the “play” button.
Khonya Epstein was born on November 15, 1928 and lived in Belarus, his family was an ordinary working family involved in shoe production. Khonya’s mother was a housekeeper and his family consisted of an older sister, an older brother, and a younger brother. He was thirteen years old, did very [...]
Iosif and his twin sister Manya were born in the small village of Lipovets, the Vinnitzkaya Oblast, on October 10, 1925. On June 21, 1941, Iosif took the train to Kiev where he met his uncle and his brother Mikhail, known as Milya, who was studying there in a medical institute. The next day, came [...]