Survivors Archive

The Tennessee Holocaust Commision has archived

with nearly 100 Tennesseans who are Holocaust survivors, refugees, and US military liberators-people who were eyewitnesses to the Holocaust.

Sort By: All American Rescuer Hidden Child Liberator Military Liaison Partisan Refugee Special Services Officer Survivor U.S. Army Witness

Sally Wolkoff Survivor Pabianice and Lódz Ghettos; Auschwitz, Freiburg, and Mauthausen Concentration Camps

Henry Wolkoff Survivor Pabianice and Lódz Ghettoes; Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Ebensee Concentration Camps

Fred Westfield Refugee Essen, Germany

Sam Weinreich Survivor Lódz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Dachau Concentration Camps

Frieda Weinreich Survivor Lódz Ghetto; Auschwitz Concentration Camp; Parschnitz Slave Labor Camp

Hans Strupp Refugee Frankfurt, Germany

Blanche Stern Refugee Frankfurt, Germany

Tilla Starkand Refugee Witten, Germany

Harry Snodgrass Liberator Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Ella Silber Survivor Stutthof And Dachau Concentration Camps

Erika Sigel Hidden Child Czechoslovakia

Sara Slomovic Seidner Survivor Sekernice Ghetto; Stutthoff Slave Labor Camp; Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Jack Seidner Survivor Transnistria Forced Labor Camp

Ralph Schulz U.S. Army Witness Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

Gertrude Schlanger Survivor Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Alexander Savranskiy Survivor Tomashpol Ghetto

Raymond Sandvig Military Liaison Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

Leonid Saharovici Survivor Romania

Fredericka Saharovici Survivor Romania

Helene Rothschild Refugee Sagano, Czechoslovakia

Eva Rosenfeld Refugee Königsberg, Germany (Now Kaliningrad, Russia)

Eric Rosenfeld Refugee Seeheim, Germany

Kurt Rose Refugee Hanover, Germany

Robert Ray, Jr. Liberator Nordhausen Concentration Camp

Fritz Preis Refugee Vienna, Austria

Erna Preis Refugee Leipheim, Germany

Art Pais Survivor Kovno Ghetto, Dachau Concentration Camp

Lore Oppenheim Refugee Wiesbaden, Germany

Reva Oks Survivor Siberian Forced Labor Camp

Max Notowitz Survivor Kolbuszowa Ghetto; Pustkow Slave Labor Camp

Olivia Newman Hidden Child Germany

Lea Slomovic Naft Survivor Sekernice Ghetto; Stutthof Slave Labor Camp; Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Roman Mitelman Refugee Minsk, Belarus

Rosemary May Survivor Westerbork and Theresienstadt Camps

Leon May American Rescuer Hoescht, Germany

Nessy Marks Hidden Child Kovno Ghetto

Bob Mamlin Liberator Dachau Concentration Camp

Hedy Lustig Refugee Höchstim Odenwald, Germany

Inge Lowenstein Refugee Aachen, Germany

Herman Lowenstein Refugee Hameln, Germany

Jack Lorch Refugee Dieburg, Germany

Frieda Lorch Refugee Jena, Germany

Esther Loeb Siberian Forced Labor Camp

Menachem Limor Survivor Czestochowa Ghetto; HASAG Munitions Factory/Czestochowa Slave Labor Camp; Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Irvin Limor Survivor HASAG munitions factory/Czestochowa Slave Labor Camp; Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp

Elizabeth Limor Survivor Hasag Munitions Factory/Skarzysko Slave Labor Camp; Hasag Munitions Factory/Czestochowa Slave Labor Camp; Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp

John Lassing Liberator Dachau, Germany

Frida Landau Survivor Auschwitz and Theresienstadt Concentration Camps

Yakov Kreymerman Survivor Chernovtsy Ghetto

Raisa Kreymerman Refugee Mogilev, Ukraine

William Klein Survivor Auschwitz and Muhldorf-Dachau Concentration Camps

Mira Kimmelman Survivor Warsaw and Tomazow-Mazowiecki Ghettos; Blizyn-Majdanek, Auschwitz, Nordhausen and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps

Jacob Kilstein Survivor Piotrków Ghetto; Blizyn Slave Labor Camp; Auschwitz, and Dachau Concentration Camps

Ida Kilstein Survivor Poland, Chrzanow Ghetto; Neusaltz Labor Camp; Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Paula Kelman Survivor Czestochowa Ghetto; Hasag Munitions Factory/ Czestochowa Slave Labor Camp; Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp

Herman Kaplan Refugee Alytus, Lithuania

Charles Kahane Refugee Antwerp, Belgium

Claire Kahane Refugee Antwerp, Belgium

Fred Jarvis Hidden Child Gurs And Rivesaltes Concentration Camps

John Herzfeld Refugee Berlin, Germany

Elsa Herzfeld Refugee Saarlouis, Germany

Reverend Bill Harris Liberator Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

Hanna Hamburger Refugee Eppingen, Germany

Willie Hall Liberator Nordhausen Concentration Camp

Matilda Steinberg Goodfriend Survivor Mátészalka Ghetto; Geislingen Munitions Factory; Auschwitz, Natzweiler-Struthof, and Dachau Concentration Camps

Zina Gontownik Survivor Wilno Ghetto; Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Mühldorf-Dachau Concentration Camps; Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp

Jimmy Gentry Liberator Dachau Concentration Camp

James Garner Liberator Dachau Concentration Camp

Jack Fried Survivor Chorostkow ghetto, Jablonica Forced Labor Camp

Terry Moses Freudenthal Refugee Wolfenbüttel, Germany

Stephanie Freudenthal Refugee Mannheim, Germany

Ernest Freudenthal Refugee Frankfurt, Germany

Elsa Frank Refugee Hochst im Odenwald, Germany

Walburga von Raffler-Engel Partisan Munich, Germany

Robert Eisenstein U.S. Army Witness Dachau Concentration Camp

Sonja DuBois Hidden Child The Netherlands

James F. Dorris, Jr. Liberator Dachau Concentration Camp

Ruth Diamond Survivor Blizyn-Majdanek & Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Henrietta Diament Survivor Warsaw and Radom Ghettos; Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camps

Jack Cohen Survivor Greece

Leonard Chill Survivor Vilno and Warsaw Ghettos

Wallace Carden Survivor Berga Slave Labor Camp

Olga Borochina Survivor Mogilev-Podolskiy Ghetto

Clark Blatteis Refugee Berlin, Germany

Mark Blank Survivor Mogilev-Podolskiy Ghetto

Herta Adler Refugee Diez, Germany