Video: Testimonies about Rescue, Resistance, and Survival

This 78-minute film weaves together excerpts from testimonies of Holocaust survivors recorded in 1993. These Jewish men and women are from countries of both eastern and western Europe and secular and religious backgrounds. They share how they struggled to live, cope, and maintain their humanity under extreme conditions of deprivation, terror, and mass murder.

Some survived in hiding, others in Nazi camps. Some evaded deportations to death camps to join the anti-Nazi resistance or engaged in acts of sabotage as forced laborers. Some benefited from that all too rare assistance offered by non-Jews to help hunted Jews. Three of them lived to tell an extraordinary escape story.

Regardless of their situation, everyone required not only physical strength but also, as some would say, luck, in order to survive. They also exhibited remarkable resilience and relied on inner courage, even after many of their family members had been killed.

00:00 Partisans in Poland: Frank Blaichman, Sam Goldberg, Emanuel Tanay 04:36 Resistance in the Netherlands: Tina Strobos 06:54 Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Agnes Adachi 08:39 Jewish children in hiding: Helen Waterford 10:17 Kindertransports: Norbert Wollheim 11:10 False Papers in France: Leo Bretholz, Paulette Fink 14:15 Hiding in Poland: Emanuel Tanay, Stefa Kupfer, Sam Goldberg, Abraham Malnik 24:23 Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Agnes Adachi 26:53 Deportation: Norbert Wollheim 28:05 Arrival and Selection at Auschwitz: Sam Goldberg, Cecilie Klein-Pollack, Lilli Appelbaum Malnik, Agi Rubin 35:20 Forced labor camps: Gerda Weissmann Klein, Ruth Webber, Abraham Malnik, Bella Tovey, Bart Stern 42:25 Resistance in Camps: Shony Braun, Sam Goldberg, Agi Rubin, Bart Stern, Siegfried Halbreich, Emanuel Tanay 47:37 Religion and Holidays in Camps: Shony Braun, Bart Stern, Norbert Wollheim 51:56 Sobibor: Esther Raab, Chaim Engel, Selma Engel 58:15 Forced marches: Gerda Weissmann Klein, Agi Rubin, Sam Goldberg 1:01:41 Liberation: Gerda Weissmann Klein, Agi Rubin, Helen Waterford, Norbert Wollheim, Sam Goldberg, Kurt Klein 1:13:45 Final Thoughts: Agi Rubin, Gerda Weissman Klein, Cecilie Klein-Pollack