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Survivor Connect

Abram Goldberg speaks with students during a virtual workshop.

Survivor Connect

You may have met one or more of our survivors and would like to contact them today. Please write them a letter, send it to us as an email and we will ensure they receive it. They would love to hear from you. 

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Viv Spiegel

Viv Spiegel

A miraculous escape from the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup in Paris resulted in Viv and her siblings being hidden by a Catholic family until liberation. Now orphaned, 11-year-old Viv was left in charge.
Guta Goldstein

Guta Goldstein

The Nazi invasion of Lodz saw Guta’s family isolated in the ghetto. At 14, Guta was put in a cattle wagon to Auschwitz where she survived selections before deportation to Bergen-Belsen.

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Andy Factor

Andy Factor

Being the only Jewish boy in his class meant humiliation and isolation, but for Andy and his family, Kristallnacht was the impetus to escape Germany.

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Paul Grinwald

Paul Grinwald

Paul was very young when Germany invaded France. He was hidden throughout the war and after many close encounters with Nazis, he and his family survived.

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Wolf Deane

Wolf Deane

Wolf was 14 when the Nazis invaded Poland. Surviving the Lodz ghetto, Auschwitz and death marches, Wolf watched as his entire family perished.
Henri Korn

Henri Korn

The family fled to Brussels, where Henri and his sister were hidden by a lady who convinced them that being Jewish was a terrible thing.

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Lucia Haberfeld

Lucia Haberfeld

Yellow stars, ghettos and Auschwitz were Lusia’s life as a young Polish girl. Having lost her father and young brother, Lusia was determined to survive.

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Jack Fogel

Jack Fogel

Having survived five camps including Auschwitz, a death march, and being bombed by the Allies, Jack’s story is about great courage and a lot of luck.

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Irma Hanner

Irma Hanner

Irma spent two years in the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia. She witnessed nothing but lies and deception, surviving the harshest conditions as a young girl all alone.

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Abram Goldberg

Abram Goldberg

Abram was 15 when he witnessed many changes in the town of Lodz after the Nazi invasion. His vibrant Jewish world was destroyed forever.

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Sarah Saaroni

Sarah Saaroni

Sarah was born in Poland in 1926. She hid as soon as deportations to Auschwitz began and survived by pretending to be Christian.

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Gary Gray

Gary Gray

From the age of 13, incarcerated in several slave-labour camps, Gary experienced brutality and indescribable hunger. His family was lost at Auschwitz.
Halina Zylberman

Halina Zylberman

Krakow, the Jewish cultural centre of Poland was occupied. Halina received false Aryan papers from Christian friends to hide her true identity.

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Joe Szwarcberg

Joe Szwarcberg

Joe risked his life to bring food into the ghetto, where his mother died in the harshest of conditions. From a labour camp to Buchenwald to being reunited with his sisters.
Fryda Schweitzer

Fryda Schweitzer

Fryda was 15 at the outbreak of war. New laws were immediately introduced in Sosnowiec and life changed completely for its Jewish inhabitants.

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John Chaskiel

John Chaskiel

Aged 12, John buried his father who was murdered by a Nazi officer. His journey includes being hidden by a priest, transported to Auschwitz, liberated at Buchenwald.

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John Lamovie

John Lamovie

John was a young boy when the Nazis occupied Paris. His father joined the French resistance, endangering the lives of the whole family. Life for John would never be the same.

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Rona Zinger

Rona Zinger

Rona’s parents were active members of the underground resistance in the Kovno concentration camp when she was born. Hidden for the remainder of the war, Rona was reunited with her father in 1949.
Henry Buch

Henry Buch

Born amidst the misery of life in the Warsaw Ghetto, Henry was smuggled out wrapped as a parcel. Betrayal of family members and ‘a father’s last letter’ retell the tragedy.

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Charles German

Charles German

​From age 6, exposed to the harsh realities of antisemitism and war under Nazi occupation in Romania, Charles shares his miraculous story of luck and ultimate survival.

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Bep Gomperts

Bep Gomperts

Bep was only two when her father was rounded up on a street in Amsterdam, deported to Auschwitz and murdered on arrival. Going into hiding was the only option left for Bep and her mother.