During the Second World War, the Nazi party, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jewish people, including 1,500,000 children and thousands of Jewish communities were destroyed. This is now referred to as the Holocaust.

This web resource consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain. These testimonies are personal, individual, true stories, which describe life during the Holocaust.

Background to the Holocaust