“It bothers me tremendously. I never knew what is was like to be a child." (Larry Lesser)"So, I worked with a woman named Florence and she said, “What are you doing on Thanksgiving?” And I said, “I’m going to go volunteer at the soup kitchen,”…

“Life was very hard at first for me in America. I didn’t speak much English. I couldn’t find much work at first, it was very difficult.”  “I had made my way to Baltimore from New Orleans where I had been docked before on my previous days in America.…

“You know I was very Jewish growing up, but I didn’t know much of anything about Judaism or Zionism, that was until the army, the Russian Army came to liberate Poland. And this was when I was in the orphanage and many of the soldiers were Jewish and…

“You know I first left the ghetto in 1942, and I worked and disguised myself as Aryan, a Pole. It was so much secrecy, I was constantly frightened and never could trust anyone. I met and smuggled with all these Polish boys who were gangs as I…

“Orders were given that Jews had to live in one area behind this wall, and the Poles had to leave that area. Families had to make room for other families. Everyone had to give up their silver and gold, nice furs; all valuables had to be given…

“I think we were very well off, upper-middle class.”  “We had a maid in the house, and as far as I recall we all had a very happy childhood. In the summertime we would stay in a house in the resort area outside of Warsaw; we would go for the Summer…

“I was born on Nowolipki 62 street, in Warsaw Poland. It was a Jewish neighborhood and area. This house and street were part of the Ghetto later, and I lived there until 1942.”  “I had my older sister Mina and my younger brother, Moshe.”  “My mother…

Content Warning: This story includes descriptions of dead bodies and other disturbing sensory details encountered during the liberation of Dachau."Okay. You know, we had captured a number of cities and towns such as Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, Nuremberg,…

Editor's Note: When he was 16 years old, Eugene and other members of his Hitler Youth group were taken to a training camp where they were run through military drills and ultimately asked to commit to joining the SS (Schutzstaffel) a major…

Editor's Note: During the final twenty years of his life, Scott began to write, speak, and record testimony about his experience as a witness to the Holocaust. His first experience came in 1979 when he met Alex Gross, a survivor of Buchenwald, at an…