"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
– Elie Wiesel
Eyewitness to History
Project Witness is dedicated to preserving the stories of those who survived the Holocaust with our Eyewitness to History program and we have made documenting these stories our highest priority. Using the services of a professional interviewer and a videographer, Project Witness is currently in the process of archiving a large number of video interviews. If you are a survivor and are willing to share a personal account of your experiences during the Holocaust, please fill out the form by clicking below.
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Written Testimonies & Articles
Children Of The Lager
1939-1945 • Various
This is the story about the children of the survivors. Although they had not suffered the Holocaust, these children were often survivors themselves, victims of the Nazi hell that their parents had.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
1945 • Auschwitz, Poland
On Shabbos, January 27, 1945 in midst of a snowstorm Soviet troops arrived to the town of Oswiecim, Poland and liberated Auschwitz
Tu B'Shvat in Theresienstadt
1943 • Theresienstadt
Irma Kohn Lauscher was a teacher at a Jewish school in Prague. On December 22, 1942, she and her husband Jiri and their little daughter, Michaela, were deported
Chanukah in the Warsaw Ghetto
1940 • Warsaw Ghetto
December 26, 1940 Hanukkah in the ghetto. Never before in Jewish Warsaw were there as many Hanukkah celebrations as in this year of the wall.
Rosh Hashanah in Hiding
1943 • Poland
Naomi Rosenberg, along with her mother and two surviving siblings, was given refuge by a Polish farmer's wife in a crawl space