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INTERNATIONAL SURVIVORS

Please view below, a selection of international survivor videos;
'How I Escaped The Holocaust' (6min:48)
David S Wisnia
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Born Aug. 31, 1926.
Sochaczew, Poland.
Imprisoned Auschwitz Birkenau (3 years), Dachau (escaped). Lived in the United States 1946 - passing June 15, 2021.
​Obituary
Memoir 'One Voice, Two Lives: From Auschwitz Prisoner to 101st Airborne Trooper.'
'The Miracle of General Kiichiro Higuchi' (32min:52)
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​Japanese Imperial Army Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi (1888-1970),  saved the lives of Jews under persecution by Nazi Germany immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II
Deported from Westerbork to Sobibor on 10/03/1943. (7min:07)​
Sofiyah Engelsman
Born 1926 in Rotterdam, Holland.
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Yad Vashem.


​Another interview excerpt at Link


'I Survived The Holocaust Twin Experiments' (14min:47)
Eva Mozes Kor
Born 1934,
​Transylvania, Romania
Founded CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center
candlesholocaustmuseum.org/ , Indiana USA.
Author of many titles.
Books by Eva Mozes Kor
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Child Holocaust survivor (2min:25)
Esther Debora Reiss-Mossel
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Born 1938
Heiloo, Holland
Westerbork, transit camp and Bergen-Belson concentration camp
Immigrated to Israel, 1950
Holocaust survivors Jacki Handali and Rita Weiss describe their arrival in Auschwitz and the selection process.  (4min:33)
The video is an excerpt from the film "The Selection Process" .
Yad Vashem
'To Love, Not Hate' (2min:33)
Sol  (Shaya) Lurie
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Born 1930
​Kovno, Lithuania
​USHMM Oral history, 1998 


Deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz on 03/09/1944. (5min:17)
​Sal de Liema
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Born  February 14, 1914 in The Hague, Holland 
Died  June 22, 2004, California, USA
USC Shoah Foundation 
Hannah Bar Yesha (3min:34)
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Born 1932
Ungvár, Hungary.
Imprisoned Auschwitz-Birkenau
​Immigrated to Israel

Yad Vashem

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