Category:Holocaust Children's Biographies (subject)

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Holocaust Children's Biographies contains a list of notable Holocaust child victim and survivors.

See the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust Museums features biographies of child survivors, notably:

  • <Meet Holocaust Survivors> -- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • <Save from being Forgotten> -- Historical Museum of the City of Krakow


1920s

1924 (selected)

1925 (selected)

1926 (selected)

1927

Boys 1927

  • Tibor Hollo (M / France, 1927), American real estate developer -- <Drancy> <Auschwitz> <Mauthausen-Gusen> -- <wiki.en>
  • Henri Landwirth (M / Belgium, 1927-2018) -- <Auschwitz> <Mauthausen> -- <Memoirs> Gift of Life -- <wiki.en> -- See also Love & Hate The Story of Henri Landwirth by Bill Halamandaris
  • Jack Mandelbaum (Poland, b.1927) -- <Biography> "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps", by Andrea Warren

Girls 1927

  • Erika Neuman (F / Czechia, Romania, 1928) -- <Czernowitz ghetto> <Fugitives> <Soviet Union>
  • Rena Wohlfeiler (F / Poland, 1927) -- <Schindler's List> -- <Save from being Forgotten>

1928

  • Hans Fisher (M / Germany, 1928) -- <Refugees> <US St. Louis> <Cuba> -- United States
  • @ Henry Gallant / Heinz Goldstein (Germany, France, 1928) -- <[[Refugees>]]> <MS St. Louis> <Switzerland> -- <Memoirs> "Aboard the MS St. Louis and the Ordeal That Followed"
  • Nesse Godin (F / Lithuania, 1928) -- Ghetto <Stutthof> <Death March>
  • Alberto Sed (M / Italy, 1928-2019) -- <Auschwitz> <Mittelbau-Dora> -- <Memoirs> Sono stato un numero by Roberto Riccardi

1929

  • Petr Eben (Czech, 1929-2007), Holocaust survivor
  • Max Eisen (Slovakia, 1929), Holocaust survivor
  • Peter Feigl (France, 1929) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Dairies> -- <Meet Holocaust Survivors>
  • Jerzy Gross (Poland, 1929-2014) -- <Schindler's List> -- <Wiki.de>
  • Imre Hercz (Hungary, 1929-2011), Holocaust survivor
  • Leon Leyson (M / Poland, 1929-2013) -- <Schindler's List> -- <Memoirs> The Boy on the Wooden Box -- <Wiki.en>
  • Larry Rosenbach (M / Poland, 1929-2011) - various camps. See After The Holocaust, by Howard Greenfeld

1930

Boys 1930

  • Hugo Gryn (M / Slovakia, 1930-1996), Holocaust survivor
  • Yehuda Nir (M / Poland, 1930-2014) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> The Lost Childhood
  • Leslie Schwartz (M / Hungary, 1930) -- <Auschwitz> <Dachau> -- <Memoirs> Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau

Girls 1930

  • Esther Bem (F / Yugoslavia, Croatia, 1930) - <Refugees> <Italy> <Hidden Children (with their family)> -- <Israel> <Canada>
  • Ruth Cohen, born Friedman (F / Czechia, 1930) -- <Meet Holocaust Survivors>

1931

1931 (boys)

  • David Bergman (M / Czechia, Hungary, 1931) -- various camps -- <United States> -- <USHMM>
  • Harry Goldman (M / Germany, France, Italy, 1931-1948) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Biography>
  • @ Rubin Katz (M / Poland, 1931) -- <Hidden Children> <Street Children> / <Lublin Orphanage> / <England> -- <Memoirs> Gone to Pitchipoi]]
  • Henryk Meller (M / Poland, 1931) -- <Street Children> -- <Save from Being Forgotten>
  • @ Stephen Nasser (M / Hungary, 1931) -- <Auschwitz> -- <Memoirs> My Brother's Voice
  • George D. Schwab (M / Latvia, 1931) - various camps. -- See After The Holocaust, by Howard Greenfeld.
  • @ Sidney Zoltak (M / Poland, 1931) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> "My Silent Pledge: A Journey of Struggle, Survival and Remembrance" (2013)

1931 (girls)

1932

1932 (boys)

  • Aharon Appelfeld (M / Poland, 1932-2018) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> The Story of a Life (1999)
  • Saul Friedländer (M / Czechia, 1932) -- <Hidden Children> <Catholic Church> / <Israel> -- <Memoirs>
  • Jack Kuper (M / Poland, 1932) -- Street Child -- <Lublin Orphanage> <Canada> -- <Memoirs>
  • Karl Rothstein (M / Austria, 1932) -- <Kristallnacht> <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> From Kristallnacht to Israel : a Holocaust survivor's story / by Karl Rothstein.

Girls 1932

  • Janina Ecker (F / Poland, 1932) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Save from Being Forgotten>
  • Bronisława Horowitz (F / Poland, 1932) -- <Schindler's List> -- <Museum of Polish History in Warsaw>
  • Ruth Jacobsen (F / Netherlands, 1932-2019) -- <Hidden Children> -- United States
  • Regine Miller (F / Belgium, 1932) -- <Hidden Children> < Memoirs Tell no one who you are, by Walter Buchignani (1994)
  • Johanna Reiss (F / Netherlands, 1932) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>
  • Stefanie Zweig (F / Germany, 1932) -- <Refugees> <Kenya> - <Memoirs> "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 2001.

1933

Boys 1933

  • Isaac Millman (M / France, 1933) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>

Girls 1933

  • Naomi Samson (F / Poland, 1933) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>
  • Miriam Winter (F / Poland, 1933-2014) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>

1934

Boy 1934

  • @ Thomas Buergenthal (M / Czechia, 1934) -- <Auschwitz> <Errand Boys> -- <Memoirs> "A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy"
  • @ Michal Glowinski (M / Poland, 1934) -- <Warsaw Ghetto> <Hidden Children> <Christian Orphanage> -- <Memoirs> The Black Seasons (1998)

Girl 1934

  • @ Magda Denes (F / Hungary, 1934-1996) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> "Castles Burning" (1997)
  • Anita Lobel (F / Poland, 1934) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>

1935

Boys 1935

  • Jan Saudek (M / Czechia, 1935), Czech artist, photographer -- <Mischlinge> <concentration camp Luža, Poland> -- <wiki.en>
  • Kája Saudek (M / Czechia, 1935-2015), Czech artist, comics illustrator -- <Mischlinge> <concentration camp Luža, Poland> -- <wiki.en>

Girls 1935

  • Krystyna Chiger (F / Poland, 1935) -- <Lwow Ghetto> <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> "The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow"
  • Nelly S. Toll (F / Poland, 1935) -- Lwow, <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs>

1936

Boys 1936

  • Alex Kurzem (M / Latvia, 1936) -- <Errand Boys> -- <Memoirs>

Girls 1936

  • Sheila Bernard / Sala Perec (F / Poland, 1936-2007) -- <Chełm Ghetto> <Hidden Children> -- <Meet Holocaust Survivors>
  • Frida Weinstein / Frida Scheps (F / France, 1936) -- <Hidden Children>, Catholic School -- <Memoirs> "A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a French Convent, 1942-1945"

1937

Boys (1937)

  • Leif Donde (M / Denmark, 1937) -- <Refugees> <Sweden> -- Back to Denmark
  • Tom Stoppard / Tomáš Straussler (M, Czechia, 1937) -- <Refugees> (with family) <India> -- <England>

Girls (1937)

  • @ Ruth Kapp Hartz (F / France, 1937) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Memoirs> "Your Name Is Renée: Ruth Kapp Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France"

1938

Boys (1938)

  • Eric Cahn (France, 1938) -- <Hidden Children>

Girls (1938)

  • Lore Baer (F / Netherlands, 1938) -- <Hidden Children>

1939

Boys (1939)

  • Ralph Berets (M / Netherlands, 1939) -- <Hidden Children> -- <Meet Holocaust Survivors>

Girls (1939)

1940

Boys (1940)

Girls (1940)

1941

1941 (boys)

1941 (girls)

1942

Boys (1942)

Girls (1942)

1943

1945

See The Independent -- The Jakarta Post

Boys (1945)

Girls (1945)

Holocaust victims

  • Petr Ginz (Czechia, 1928-1944), Holocaust victim

Additional names

See After The Holocaust, by Howard Greenfeld

  • Civia Gelber Basch: Born in Romania in 1928. Liberated from Ravenbruck Concentration Camp on April 30, 1945.
  • Judith Bihaly: Born in Hungary in 1934. Living openly as a non-Jew she was liberated in December of 1944.
  • Tonia Rotkopf Blair: Born in Poland in 1925. Liberated from Mauthausen Camp in May of 1945.
  • Akiva Kohane: Born in Poland in 1929. Liberated from Gunskirchen camp (part of Mauthausen) on May 1945.
  • Larry Rosenbach: Born in Poland in 1929. Liberated in April, 1945 on the way to Dachau in a death march.
  • George D. Schwab: Born in Latvia in 1931. Liberated in May 1945 on the way to a German death camp.
  • Ann Shore: Born in Poland in 1929. A hidden child liberated with her mother and sister in January 1945.
  • Alicia Weinsberg: Born in Poland in 1929. A hidden child liberated in September 1944.

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