There are many famous Holocaust survivors who survived the Nazi genocides in Europe and went on to achievements of great fame and notability. Those listed here were, at the very least, residents of the parts of Europe occupied by the Axis powers during World War II who survived until the end of the Holocaust (and the war). The majority of these people survived incarceration in the Nazi concentration camps, but that is not strictly necessary for the purposes of this list.
Actors, actresses, and director
Literature and publishing
- Aharon Appelfeld - novelist and poet
- Werner Barasch - author of Survivor: Autobiographical Fragments 1938 - 1946
- Marion Baumann-Parkurst - author of Searching Survivor and the answer I found
- Louis Begley (born 1933) - U.S. lawyer and novelist
- Bruno Bettelheim (1903-1990) - writer and psychologist
- Thomas Blatt - writer
- Tadeusz Borowski (1922-51) - Polish author
- George Brady (Jiří Brady) - elder brother of Hana "Hanička" Bradová
- Paul Celan (1920-1970) - poet
- Yehiel De-Nur (1909-2001) - German Jewish writer
- Charlotte Delbo (1913-1985) - French writer
- David Faber - author of Because of Romek.
- Leon Feldhandler - Organiser of resistance in Sobibor death camp, murdered after liberation in Lublin in 1945
- Fania Fénelon - French singer, author of the book Playing for Time about her experiences in Birkenau
- Otto Frank - father of Anne Frank, publisher of her diary
- Viktor Frankl - Austrian psychiatrist and author of Man's Search for Meaning
- Roman Frister - Author of The Cap or the Price of a Life.
- Eva Geiringer Schloss - Daughter of Eric Geiringer and Fritzi Geiringer Frank. Anne Frank's future stepsister. Wrote EVA'S STORY by Eva Geiringer Schloss.
- Richard Glazar (1920-1997) - author of Trap With a Green Fence
- Yosef Goldman - author and scholar of Jewish American History.
- Fanie Gusz (Fanny Goose) - author of Rising from the Holocaust
- Fanya Heller - author of Love in a World of Sorrow
- Magda Herzberger - poet and author
- Eugene Hollander - author of From the Hell of the Holocaust: A Survivor's Story
- Arek Hersh - Polish writer, author of A Message from History
- Stanislaw Hutyra - Polish gardener and miner. Born 1922 died 2000. Imprisoned in Dachau.
- Simon Jeruchim - French writer, author of "Hidden in France" and "Frenchy"
- Alicia Appleman-Jurman - memoirist, writer of Alicia: My Story
- Imre Kertész - Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian author
- Gerda Weissmann Klein - author of All But My Life. The book was later used as a basis for One Survivor Remembers an Emmy and Academy Award winning documentary.
- Abram Korn (1923-1972) - writer of Abe's Story: A Holocaust Memoir. He died before publishing it, so his son edited and published it.
- Jerzy Kosiński (1933-1991) - novelist
- Olga Lengyel - author of Five Chimneys
- Robert Maxwell - media proprietor
- Filip Muller (born 1942) - author of Three years in the gas chamber survived Auschwitz
- Arnulf Øverland (1889-1968) - Norwegian poet, survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 1920) - literary critic
- Tadeusz Sobolewicz (b. 1923, Poznań) - Polish actor, author of But I Survived, survivor of six concentration camps
- Vladek Spiegelman - subject of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Maus
- Mike Staner - Writer
- Balys Sruoga - Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic
- Corrie Ten Boom - Author of The Hiding Place-died 1987.
- Jerzy Urban- Polish publisher, satirist, politician
- Elie Wiesel - Nobel laureate author of Night, as well as Dawn and Day. Survived Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buna before being liberated.
- Hannelore Wolf - author of 'I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree.Survived Lublin, Bełżyce, Kraśnik, Budzyn, Wieliczka, Płaszów, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Brünnlitz before being liberated.
Music
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Humanities
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Mathematics and natural sciences
Medicine, psychology, pedagogy
- Jerzy Einhorn - medical doctor, researcher, politician
- Leo Eitinger - professor of psychiatry at University of Oslo, known mainly for his work on late-onset psychological trauma amongst Holocaust survivors
- Berthold Epstein - professor of pediatrics from Prague, conducted research on Noma while at Auschwitz
- Erna Furman - psycoanalyst, known mainly for her work on grief in children
- Daniel Kahneman - psychologist, Nobel laureate
- Eric Kandel - neurobiologist, Nobel laureate
- David Katz - psychologist
- Henry Morgentaler - doctor and abortion activist, now lives in Canada
- Joshua Howard Shrock - (1923-) Jewish Doctorcitation needed.
- Karl Targownik - psychiatrist
- Michel Thomas -- linguist, language-teacher, American CIC Agent, awarded Silver Star in 2004
- Isidoro Franco Vabani - (1896-1976) optometristcitation needed.
- Rose Warfman -nurse, heroine of the French Resistance, survivor of Auschwitz, lives in England
Theology, spirituality, religion
Politics, resistance
- Władysław Bartoszewski, politician and journalist
- Léon Blum (1872-1950) - French socialist leader and Prime Minister (his brother, René, was killed)
- Trygve Bratteli - "Nacht und Nebel" prisoner, (including at Sachsenhausen concentration camp), later Prime Minister of Norway
- Józef Cyrankiewicz - a Polish communist political figure, premier, and Head of State
- Ludwig Draxler, Austrian politician
- Bronislaw Geremek, Polish politician and historian
- Einar Gerhardsen (1897-1987) - survived Sachsenhausen concentration camp, became Prime Minister of Norway
- Kurt Julius Goldstein - XI International Brigade, Buchenwald resister. writer and author.
- Anna Heilman, conspirator in plot to blow up Auschwitz Crematorium IV, author of Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman
- Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - Polish writer and resistance fighter, a founder of Żegota antifascist underground
- Tom Lantos - Hungarian-born American politician
- Paul Löbe - politician
- Odd Nansen - architect and humanist, founder of Nansenhjelpen and UNICEF
- Martin Nielsen (1900-1962) - member of the Danish parliament for the Communist Party of Denmark. Survived 15 months in Stutthof and 6 weeks of ensuing death march.
- Kurt Schumacher (1895-1952) - former leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany
- Ota Šik, Czechoslovak economist and politician
- Simon Srebnik - one of the two survivors of Chelmno
- Corrie ten Boom - Dutch Christian who was arrested with her family and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for harboring Jews
- Jack Tramiel - entrepreneur who survived to start Commodore Business Machines
- Simone Veil - French politician
- Rudolf Vrba - escaped from Auschwitz with Alfred Wetzler and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
- Alfred Wetzler - escaped from Auschwitz with Rudolf Vrba and gave the first detailed report about the workings of the camp.
- Elie Wiesel - author (particularly of Night) and political activist
Speakers and researchers of the Holocaust
- Nelly Ben-Or - musician and Holocaust speaker
- Philip Bialowitz- Sobibor escape participant; Holocaust speaker
- Marion Blumenthal Lazan- speaker and writer
- Hans Frankenthal - author and activist
- Rena Kornreich Gelissen- author and educator
- Nesse Godin - Lithuanian speaker and teacher about the Holocaust
- Karl Gorath - German homosexual imprisoned at Auschwitz
- Elly Gotz - educational speaker
- Leon Greenman - anti-fascism campaigner
- Kitty Hart-Moxon - Writer and Holocaust educator
- Kurt Herman - Holocaust Speaker, President of Brith Sholom
- William Herskovic - Holocaust hero, philanthropist, Bel Air Camera founder
- Miklos Kanitz
- Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
- Henryk Mandelbaum - concentration camp rebel and escapee
- Jack Mandelbaum
- Liliane Pelzman - Educational Holocaust Speaker, author of the memoir And No More Sorrow Cold Tree Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008
- Solomon Perel - mistaken for a German gentile and inducted in Hitler Youth, author of memoir Europa, Europa
- Poldek Pfefferberg
- Susan Pollack - Holocaust speaker, also spoke at the televised 60th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation
- Josef Rosensaft - business executive and leader of Holocaust survivors
- Pierre Seel - homosexual speaker
- Sigmund Sobolewski - Polish Catholic anti-fascist campaigner against Holocaust denial
- Paul Spiegel - president of Germany's Central Council of Jews
- Eddy Wynschenk - Holocaust speaker
Military
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- Gregor Lisbach - Hungarian birth, moved into Buchenwald at age 18, no relatives survived, related to Ivan Czuchrak and Brad Clark
See also
Documentaries about Holocaust survivors
External links
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