Holocaust and Genocide Resources: Holocaust/Genocide Survivors' Stories

Survivor's accounts of life in the concentration camps are just one of many survivor stories that can be found at the YouTube page of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation

• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

  The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies comprising 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.

• The Families Who Weren’t Meant to Live

  BBC News Focus program. A group of Holocaust survivors 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.

• Survivor Reflections and Testimonies

  From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Explore this site to learn more about individuals and their experiences during the Holocaust.

• Rwandan Stories

  RwandanStories is a collection of video, photography and journalism exploring the origins, details and aftermath of the Rwandan genocide through the eyes of both survivors and perpetrators.

• Genocide Survivor Stories from 3 Generations

  Hear stories from genocide survivors from 3 Generations

On February 20th, 2013, the library participated in a program where four local Holocaust survivors presented signed copies of their memoirs to libraries throughout the county through The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Research Center at Stockton College. The William Spangler Library has additional copies available at each campus. 

The survivors pictured below are Donald Berkman, Nella Juffe, Joseph Rosenberg, and Sidney Simon.

Flower of ice, cobweb of lace :
escape to the USSR
E184.37.J8 F56 2012

In the birch woods of Belarus : a partisan's revenge
DS135.B383 S64 2010

Cutting my life in two : a holocaust memoir
DS135.H93 R658 2010

Interrupted lives : the Holocaust memoirs of George and Miriam Greenman
DS134.72.G73 I57 2012

The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage

The Museum is a designated teaching center for the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage celebrates the history of the wave of immigration at the end of the 19th century that brought Russian Jewish settlers to the area known as Woodbine to be developed as an agricultural colony under the auspices of the Baron de Hirsch Fund