Click on the links below to hear survivor testimonies and to access transcripts and biographies.

Topic 1: Life before the Holocaust

Anon Henry Guterman Anon "I was about to get on a train" "all Jewish shops were boycotted" "they knew I was a refugee at school" Barbara Stimler Peter Prager Jack Kagan "they wouldn't let the Polish children out" "it's not your fault that you are inferior" "all Jews must start wearing yellow stars" Trude Levi Anon Lily Fischl "in the First World War he fought in the war" "I just understood we had to get out" "you must give up this, that and the other"

Topic 2: Ghettos and Deportation

Jack Kagan Edith Birkin Fela Bernstein "the Nazis arrived and started a selection" "I prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed" "we went into hiding" Ruth Foster Ruth Foster Barbara Stimler "he had to take us away" "nobody was allowed to give birth to babies" "the wagons were full of people" Edith Birkin         "dreadful dreadful smell"

Topic 3: The Camps

Barbara Stimler Edith Birkin Edith Birkin "the cries and the screams" "you could smell these people being burnt" "and they never appeared again" Edith Birkin Eugene Heimler Morris Frenkel "if you were old or ill looking you went the other side" "they were unwilling to deport the Jews to the Gestapo" "they considered he took most of your life away" Barbara Stimler "they start shaving us everywhere"

Topic 4: Resistance

Rose Groves Freda Wineman Trude Levi "why would they take the Gentile people?" "I remember the revolt" "we had an organised sabotage group"

Topic 5: Liberation

Edith Birkin Edith Birkin "we were always imagining that when we are liberated we are going to be dancing, and kissing" "although we were free and liberated, it was the very worst time"

Topic 6: Edith Birkin

Edith Birkin Edith Birkin Edith Birkin "dreadful dreadful smell" "you could smell these people being burnt" "when we are liberated we are going to be dancing, and kissing" Edith Birkin Edith Birkin Edith Birkin "I prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed" "and they never appeared again" "it was the very worst time" Edith Birkin "if you were old or ill looking you went the other side"