Holocaust Survivors Testimonies
Holocaust Survivors Testimonies
One good source for holocaust survivors testimonies is Leah Kaufman’s book, Live Remember Tell.
Holocaust Survivors Testimonies
Holocaust Survivors Stories
Here I bring one of many holocaust survivors stories that Mrs. Kaufman writes in her book:
“The military dictator of Romania, Ion Antonescu, decreed that death was too good for the Jews. We must first be humiliated, tortured, starved, dehumanized, and brutalized. After that, we would be shot, that is, if death didn’t claim us first. We had to sleep or on the ice-covered ground or in pigsties and stables without any windows. The pigs were luckier than we were because they were fed. I learned to steal food from the pigs. When caught, I was beaten, but it didn’t stop me from trying again.”
Child Survivors
Actually what makes Mrs. Kaufman’s work that much more interesting is because she herself is amongst the child survivors from Transnistria. She was nine years old when the Romanian Jews were driven on a death march to Transnistria, a frigid area with hardly any food, shelter, or human decency. Somehow, she lived.
Holocaust
When I mention “Holocaust”, I mean the systematic destruction of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.