Kurt Klein, who emigrated from Walldorf, Germany, to the United States in 1937, recalls how Nazi policies and propaganda affected his life at school.

In this BBC Newsround special, Holocaust survivor Steven Frank takes his teenage granddaughter Maggie on a journey to learn about his experiences during the Holocaust.

A group of Holocaust survivors and their families gather in Prague’s Old Town Square to recreate a photo that was taken in 1945, when the survivors had just been liberated from Nazi concentration camps.

This video interweaves liberators’ and Jewish survivors’ testimonies and other primary sources, highlighting the experiences of US soldiers upon entering the Nazi camps.

Vera Gissing, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia, recalls how her family prepared her for the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that brought thousands of Jewish refugee children to Great Britain.

Listen to or read Holocaust survivors’ experiences, told in their own words through oral histories, written testimony, and public programs.

During the 1950s researchers at The Wiener Holocaust Library gathered over 1,000 accounts from eyewitnesses to Nazi persecution and genocide.

These accounts cover a wide range of subjects, with material touching on almost every aspect of the Holocaust.

Voices of the Holocaust - Survivor testimonies

Hundreds of testimonies now available online at British Library Sounds are drawn from two major oral history projects, Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre Testimony recording project, which ran 1993-1998 and the Living Memory of the Jewish Community, a project run by National Life Stories at the British Library 1987-2000.

Testimonies collected by Dr. David P. Boder in 1946 during his visit to refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. He recorded 90 hours of first-hand testimony, which represent the earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust and are available through the online archive.

A unique source material documenting the experiences of approximately 20,000 survivors from Ravensbrück and other Nazi concentration camps who were evacuated to Sweden, including testimonies, drawings, photos, transport lists, layouts of camps, and teaching materials.

The largest audiovisual collection of its kind in the world, the Holocaust Collection is composed of 54,140 WWII era testimonies of Jewish survivors, political prisoners, Sinti and Roma survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, survivors of eugenics policies, and LGBTQ survivors, as well as rescuers and aid providers, liberators, and participants in war crimes trials.

Education Programs and short activities highlight the stories of Canadian survivors, while exploring important themes related to the Holocaust. Each program and activity builds students’ knowledge of the historical context of the survivors’ stories. The materials can easily be adapted to meet the needs of every classroom.

This innovative digital resource combines video interviews with memoir excerpts, photos and artifacts, and features interactive timelines and maps to place survivors’ stories in historical and geographic context. Use Re:Collection in classrooms to help students understand the experiences of individual survivors and learn about important themes in the history of the Holocaust.