Holocaust Survivor Stories
Explore the stories of each brave individual.
Local Holocaust Survivor Speaks in Germany at Event Marking End of Second World War
Bette Zaret, Holocaust Education Initiative As she nears 99 years old, local Holocaust Survivor Helga Melmed continues to ensure that the lessons of history are neither forgotten nor ignored. Last month, Helga was invited by the city of Hamburg, Germany to address the...
A Survivor’s Passover Story…for the Ages
By Steve Gold, member of the Federation’s Generations After group. My family considered Passover a treasure. It meant more than a holiday observance of Jewish tradition, it represented a celebration of Jewish life. I grew up in South Fallsburg, NY with extended family...
Ernie Kent’s Long Journey from Austria to New York
By Jiayi Zhu Flipping through a binder, Ernie Kent smiles as she shows photos of her mother and younger self. They appear as long-lost reflections of Kent now, transformed through her journey decades later. Kent was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria, the youngest child...
Sigmund Tobias
By Lora Rini This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Raised during the Holocaust, Sigmund Tobias was only three or four...
Felicia Liban
by Isabella Kulawik (Class of 2024) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Krakow, Poland, a gilded city, cobblestones...
George Erdstein
by Peyton Harris (Class of 2022) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. In a series of chain reactions, George Erdstein...
Ginette Hersh
by Zoe Merritt (Class of 2022) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Ginette Hersh was born five years shy of a century...
Helga Melmed
by Grace Johnson (Class of 2022) and Lindsay Luberecki (Class of 2025) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Berlin 1928,...
Lora Tobias
by Alyson Mizanin (Class of 2023) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Amidst a flurry of Sarasota parkgoers sits...
Marcel Infeld
by Lucy Collins (Class of 2022) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Marcel Infeld plays pickleball every day. He walks...
Marlies Gluck
by Kai Sprunger (Class of 2024) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. It was April 5, 1940, only a few weeks before the...
Pieter Kohnstam
Pieter Kohnstam by Joanna Malvas (Class of 2022) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Witnessing the manifestation of...
Rifka Glatz
by Felicity Chang (Class of 2023) This is part of a series of articles written by journalism students from Pine View School in Osprey, Fla., based on in-depth interviews the students conducted with Holocaust survivors. Clutching her mother’s hand, a little girl — six...